Concepts of School
The "Good" School
Basic Purposes of School
The Nature of Schools
Hodgepodge
100
What a community believes young people need to know to become good productive adults
What is a curriculum?
100
Teacher beliefs shared with students that the student will achieve the goal of instruction
What are teacher expectations?
100
Socialization
What is passing on a society's culture to the young?
100
Two aspects of the elementary teacher's role
What are dispenser of supplies, granter of special privileges and timekeeper?
100
A group of people bound together by a variety of connections
What is a society?
200
A specific, formal process mostly focused on the young that tends to be uniform throughout the U.S.
What is schooling?
200
Seriousness of purpose where teachers begin instructing early in the period and end it late in the period
What is task orientation?
200
A group's beliefs about what is right/wrong, good/bad along with their main ideas, myths and stories, art, organizations, and social habits
What is culture?
200
Part of schooling where students experience changes in the way they think, biological changes, and changes in sense of self
What is middle school? (junior high)
200
A view of high school that includes "specialty shops" and "student customers" where schools try to have a variety to have something for everyone
What is the shopping mall high school?
300
Academic engaged time
What is the amount of time that students are actually engaged in content-related activities and are having a high rate of success?
300
School as acculturator
What are schools that make sure young people know the major ideas and values of their society's culture?
300
A criticism of middle schools
What is the drop off in gains from elementary schools to middle schools? (soft, disorganized curriculum/ emphasis on student social and emotional needs)
300
Major responsibility of schools to foreign-born students
What is acquisition of a high level of English proficiency?
400
Order in the classroom
What is classroom or behavior management?
400
A second overall purpose of schools other than transmitting culture
What are schools as reconstructors of society or creators of social change agents?
500
An ongoing process of human growth through which one gains better understanding and control of oneself and one's world
What is education?
500
Relational trust
What is the network of trust among people that includes respect, competence, personal regard, and integrity?
500
Negatives of the transmission view
What are attitudes of smug cultural superiority and pulling immigrant children away from their ethnic backgrounds?
500
A key part of how a group relates to one another by the way they use it
What is language?
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