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True or false: you will be challengded to educate an increasingly racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse student population?
True
True or false: A students SES does NOT impact and/or influence their learning?
False
True or false: parent effort + teacher effort = greater student learning
True
True or False: It is estimated that over 2 million children are either abused or neglected each year?
True
True or false: Each student should be provided an intellectually challenging environment that is physically and emotionally safe?
True
What is the defintion of latchkey children?
Children regularly left home alone, unsupervised
What is the definition of resilient children?
Children that are able to overcome adverse circumstances in their lives and do better in school than one might expect
What is the definition of temperament?
Every person has a different way of thinking, behaving, and reacting.
What is the defintion of multicultural education?
Multicultural education refers to efforts make to help students understand and appreciate their culture and the culture of others.
What is the defintion of mainstreaming children with special needs?
Mainstreaming ensures that special needs children are educated in as normal, or least restrictive, environment as possible.
How do the classrooms of male and female teachers differ?
Male
Female
What is the difference between experienced and novice teachers?
Experienced: are better able to attend to and take into account multiple concurrent classroom happenings and they are more likely to be flexible and open
Novice: seem more controlling and authoritarian
What is the difference between morality of constraint and morality of cooperation?
morality of constraint
When children (typically 6-year-olds) regard rules as sacred and unchangeable. Everyone should obey rules in the same way, with no expectations.
morality of cooperation
When children (typically 12-year-olds) have reached a point where they believe that rules are flexible and that there can be exceptions to them.
What are the 4 types of learners?
1. Auditory learners
2. Visual learners
3. Kinesthetic learners
4. Tactile learners
What are some indicators that a child may be abused or neglected?
- child is afraid of parents
- may have bruises, welts, sores and other skin injuries that seem untreated
- receive inappropraite food, nutrition and/or medication
- child is chronically unclean
- often tired and may fall asleep in the classroom
- child is wary of physcial contact, especailly with adults
How do you interact with children who disclose something that indicates abuse or neglect?
- find a private place to talk
- be calm
-believe the child
-make it clear the child is not at fault
-be supportive
-respect the child's privacy
-be truthful
-make an immediate report
-be a continuing advocate
What are some characteristics of at risk children?
- low-income home
- single-parent home with limited human and financial resources
- unsupervised for long periods of time
- parents with little to no education
- having a disability
- moving often
- sibling who dropped out of school
How can a teacher help at risk children?
- expect that they can and will learn
- accepting them as they are ( treating their background and experiences as assests rather than liabilities)
- employing meaninful learning
- using a greater variety of instructional alternatives
How can you increase resiliency?
- students are more likely to become reilent when teachers provide explanations, encourage student thinking and responses, show students how to learn, encourage success and are caring
- schools can help kids attain greater reiliency by forging alliances with the family, community organizations and businesses
- improving factors in the child's life (reduce vulnerability and exposure to risks, reduce stress, improve self-efficacy and self-esteem, create new oppurtunities, and increase resources)
Particpation in well-run organized out-of-school activities (20 hours a week or less) produce postive results such as?
- skill building
- the formation of friendships
- higher self-esteem
- rates of school completion
- improvement in some school subjects