A type of assistance for teachers to help students that bridges the gap between what they know and the intended outcome of what they will learn.
What is Scaffolding (also except ZPD or apprenticeship)?
100
Prior knowledge and connections of background information.
What is Schema?
100
A description of a person's societal rank measured by education level, income, and neighborhood residence.
What is Socioeconomic Status (SES)?
100
One who has the knowledge, skills and attitude to make informed and reasonable decisions for the good of society.
What is an Informed Citizen?
100
This model plays a major role in describing the teacher's role and has five components that must be present for effective learning to take place.
What is Dynamic Social Studies Model?
200
Students write thoughts, opinions and/or reactions to an in-class activity or assignments.
What is a Reflection (also accepting journal articles)?
200
The teacher instructs a lesson to the entire class.
What is Whole Group Instruction?
200
This theory suggest that there are ten distinctive ways in which people learn about the world.
What is Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
200
Individual/group investigation to learn specific details and skills in order to be informed about specific concepts.
What is Research?
200
This model includes the study of careers, health, environmental/global issues, terrorism, literacy and law.
What is The 7 Contemporary Aspects of Social Studies?
300
When students are asked to complete tasks that demonstrate meaningful applications and skills, including presentations, portfolios, or open-ended questions.
What is Authentic Assessment/Learning?
300
Teachers provide a positive classroom environment by avoiding stereotyping.
What is Bias Free Classroom?
300
Children can develop a gender biased perspective of gender roles and choice of play activities even if they are brought up in a non-biased environment.
What is Developmental Sexism?
300
Students brainstorm concepts or ideas in an orderly fashion in order to become more aware of how the ideas are connected.
What is Concept Development?
300
This model is a group of academic disciplines that use the scientific method in the study of humankind. This model contributes to the knowledge and processes that form the supportive backbone of most elementary school social studies programs.
What is the 6 Social Sciences?
400
Teaching students about violence/bullying in the school.
What is Terrorism Curriculum?
400
A set of beliefs about how children develop and learn, and what/how they should be taught.
What is Philosophy of Education?
400
Teachers work with children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds where their primary language is not the primary spoken language.
What is Language Diversity?
400
When a student is responsible for his/her own learning but also helping teammates for the group's success.
What is Interdependence?
400
This model includes the contributions approach, the additive approach, the transformation approach and the social action approach.
What is James Bank's Multicultural Approaches?
500
A classroom that supports the belief that children can smoothly fit the demand of a new learning task into their existing cognitive framework.
What is Constructivist Classroom?
500
Students move around the classroom to different stations to participate in various activities in order to enhance student learning and meet each individual's needs.
What is Learning Centers?
500
Minority groups maintain their own ethnic and cultural values and identities within a larger society.
What is Cultural Pluralism?
500
Students are given the opportunity to dispute controversial issues with one another to better understand both sides of the argument.
What is a Debate?
500
This model includes the survival stage, the consolidation stage and the renewal stage.