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What is present curriculum?
Additional Influences on the curriculum
Assessing student academic performance
100
Block scheduling
An approach to class scheduling in which students take fewer classes each day but spend more time in each class.
100
Several approaches to multicultural curriculum exist, but in essence, it promotes an understanding of and appreciation for cultural pluralism. It attempts to address issues of social injustice related to racism , sexism, and economic inequality by reducing prejudice and fostering tolerance through the formal curriculum.
Multicultural curriculum
100
Out of visual arts, music, dance and theater, which two frequently get ignored in elementary school?
Dance and theater
100
What is an example that assists national curriculum?
Textbooks
100
What is the NAEP?
THis body conducts periodic assessments in Reading, Mathematics, Science, Writing, and History.
200
Program for International Student assessment (PISA)
An international assessment of 15-year-old students in mathematics, science, and reading, administered every three years
200
An approach to reading that teaches the reader to decode words by souding out letters and combinations of letters.
Phonics
200
What are five academic courses that make up a traditional curriculum according to the book?
English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign languages, the arts, physical education and health, electives, and career and technical education.
200
What is an example of a cooperative learning strategy?
Group goals, individual accountability. Equal opportunities for success.
200
Out of the 4th, 8th, and 12th graders, these students scored 21% proficient in Science.
12th graders.
300
Looping
An educational practice of multiyear teaching in which the teacher follows students to the next grade level and stays with the group for several years.
300
A curriculum that integrates the subject matter from two or more disciplines, such a English and history, often using themes such as inventions, discoveries or health as overlays to the study of the different subjects.
Interdisciplinary (integrated) curriculum
300
What are two disciplines that make up Social Studies?
Government, History, and Geography.
300
Which method of thought intends to help students evaluate the worth of ideas before making a decision?
Critical Thinking
300
This country is characterized by TIMSS researchers as "a mile wide and an inch deep"
The U.S
400
Whole language approach
A teaching approach emphasizing the integration of the language arts skills and knowledge across the curriculum. It stresses the provision of a literate environment and functional uses of language.
400
An initiative that lays out earning standards in mathematics and English language arts, and which will develop assessments to measure student achievement of the standards.
Common Core State Standards
400
What is one thing a constructivist educator would say a teacher should do about teaching a Math problem?
Teach solving it in multiple ways for students to fully understand it.
400
What is cooperative learning?
An approach in which students work together in groups to achieve learning goals.
400
The NAEP assessments in the U.S have become known as?
The national report card
500
The homogeneous grouping of students for learning tasks on the basis of some measure(s) of their abilities.
Tracking
500
All the organized and intended experiences of the student for which the school accepts responsibility
Curriculum
500
What type of program in career and technology education has students receive on-the-job training for four days of the week and classroom instruction on one day?
School-to-Work program
500
What is interdisciplinary curriculum?
A curriculum that integrates the subject matter from two or more disciplines. (English, History)
500
This country is #1 in the world in size of textbooks.
The U.S
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