Roles in Education
This administrative role is responsible for overseeing the entire school district and making policy decisions.
What is a Superintendent?
A personal philosophy of education includes these two key components, reflecting a teacher’s beliefs and values.
What are personal core beliefs and values?
This term refers to a classroom environment where students from different cultural backgrounds learn together with mutual respect.
What is multiculturalism?
This Utah teaching framework includes elements such as student agency, customized support, and multiple opportunities to show mastery.
What is the Utah Effective Teaching Standards (UETS)?
This document serves as a teacher’s guide for delivering a single lesson and includes objectives, activities, and assessments.
What is a lesson plan?
These professionals support student well-being by providing guidance, mental health support, and social services.
Who are counselors, psychologists, and social workers?
This question is essential when developing a personal philosophy of education and reflects a teacher's motivation.
What is "Why do I want to become an educator?"
This term defines the understanding that each individual is unique and has different personal characteristics.
What is diversity?
These four critical questions help teachers plan, assess, and improve student learning.
What are DuFour’s four critical questions?
This instructional approach is structured, sequenced, and teacher-led, often including direct explanation and modeling.
What is explicit instruction?
This type of teacher specializes in subjects like mathematics, science, and social studies at the secondary level.
What is an academic teacher?
One benefit of having a personal philosophy of education is the ability to do this in response to feedback from students and peers.
What is reflection?
A physical or mental impairment that limits major life activities is defined as this.
What is a disability?
The practice of analyzing student errors and misconceptions falls under this component of the Utah High Quality Instructional (HQI) Cycle.
What is Data and Reflection?
This student-centered instructional method encourages learners to explore a driving question and develop their own understanding.
What is inquiry-based instruction?
This role assists teachers by supporting students with instruction and classroom management.
What is a paraprofessional?
A personal philosophy of education helps teachers grow in these two areas for improving student learning.
What are ideas and goals?
The process of providing curriculum in both a student’s primary and secondary language is known as this.
What are linguistic needs?
These three instructional strategies form the foundation of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
What are Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression?
This instructional technology method blends online and face-to-face learning experiences for students.
What is blended learning?
This individual leads a school and is responsible for implementing educational policies and managing staff.
What is a Principal?
Teachers should continuously engage in this practice to improve their teaching effectiveness.
What is professional growth?
Socioeconomic status (SES) is typically divided into these three levels.
What are high, middle, and low?
Classroom management techniques include these two essential elements to maintain an organized and effective learning environment.
What are consistency and procedures?
This type of assessment is ongoing, allows for multiple methods of demonstrating competency, and informs instructional adjustments.
What is formative assessment?