Educational Acronyms
BEI
What is Black Educators Initiative?
Just one of these during the early years increases the likelihood of Black children graduating from high school.
What is a Black Teacher?
Understand and know this type of need, in which students work together in groups.
What are social needs?
Connecting students' culture, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching/Instruction?
Students work in small groups to accomplish a common goal.
What is cooperative learning?
NCTR
What is National Center for Teacher Residencies?
The Black Educators Initiative is a national effort to perform these 3 tasks in regard to Black teachers.
What is to recruit, develop/train, and retain?
Understand this type of need, which addresses students' desire to connect with their family backgrounds and heritage.
What are cultural needs?
This instructional strategy engages students in play, which may help their brain focus more on the lesson content.
What is Gamify?
Remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
What is Bloom's Taxonomy?
KOL
What is Knowledge of Learners?
APEC Fellows should rely on these for guidance and support throughout their field experience.
What are their mentor teachers and/or college supervisors?
Creating one of these for each student is a way to collect valuable information about their needs.
What are learner profiles?
Tailoring learning activities to meet the individual needs of the students.
What is differentiated instruction?
The goal of this low-stakes instrument is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback.
What is formative assessment?
CRT
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
These behaviors are high priority in preparing candidates for effectiveness in the classroom.
What are key teacher practices?
This learner preference is most effective for students who like listening and speaking.
What is auditory?
The identities of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and language are example of what in the classroom?
What is diversity?
The concept that all students should be mainstreamed to learn together in the same classroom.
What is inclusion?
SCTS
What is South Carolina Teaching Standards?
This type of instruction is designed to provide opportunities for children at different ability levels to learn in the same classroom?
What is differentiated instruction?
This student's learner preference may be characterized as the "Do-er."
What is kinesthetic?
A group of people linked by a common interest or purpose, i.e. spaces for BEI participants.
What are Affinity Groups/Spaces?
Guidelines that convey what should be taught and what students are expected to learn in each subject area at each grade level.
What are curriculum standards?