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Deficit Thinking
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100
Describe the "cognitive elite" according to Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray.
What is having an IQ over 120, graduating high school, getting prestigious jobs, and earning lots of money?
100
Define deficit thinking.
What is the practice of holding lower expectations for students with demographics that do not fit the traditional context of the school system.
100
Name a common assumption of a language minority child entering a classroom.
What is they have little or no knowledge?
100
Define the "ESL ghetto" and name the consequences of it.
What is the place where many immigrant children are trapped by the LEP or ELL instructional label. This "ESL ghetto" does not allow these students to realize their full academic potential, thereby limiting their life possibilities?
200
Describe the "very dull" according to Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Muarray.
What is having an IQ less than 75, they tend to drop out of high school, be unemployed, get divorced more often , bring children into the world outside of marriage, and depend on welfare?
200
Name one major myth of deficit thinking that fails to die regarding low income parents of color.
What is low income parents of color typically do not value the importance of education?
200
Define the term "funds of knowledge" used by Carlos Velez-Ibanez and James Greenberg.
What is reservoirs of accumulated knowledge and strategies for survival that households possess?
200
These are the two fundamental skills in English that immigrant students must develop.
What are 1) students must be able to comprehend the spoken language of their teachers as they explain and 2) present instruction and they must comprehend the language of textbooks from which they are expected to learn?
300
In the public's mind, to be part of the underclass not only means being dreadfully poor, but it also means this.
What is deviant and inferior?
300
The idea that inferior genes generate intellectual deficits of groups - not individuals.
What is hereditarianism?
300
This is the optimal way to learn about a child's funds of knowledge.
What is teachers going into the households and getting to know the experiences of that the families have endured?
300
In the classroom setting, students who are learning the English language should be guided to achieve these three goals. Name the three goals.
What is using English to communicate in social settings , using English in socially and culturally appropriate ways to build on their knowledge bases, and using English in all academic content areas to succeed academically?
400
The notion of the underclass presumes that poverty is due first and foremost to personal behavior, while paying minimal attention to this.
What is the economic system that perpetuates inequity?
400
These are three kinds of deficit thinking that divert attention from the institutional factors contributing to the marginalized student's predicament.
What is contemporary deficit thinking, cultural and accumulated environmental deficits?
400
This theory is is based upon the idea that black children from the ghetto area are said to received little verbal stimulation. The myth of this theory is particularly dangerous because it diverts the attention from real defects of our educational system to imaginary defects of the child.
What is verbal deprivation?
400
Guadalupe Valdes believes that language is more than correct pronunciation, memorization of vocabulary, and practice of grammatical forms. She believes at the core language is this.
What is the opportunity for self-expression through the discovery of new ideas and experiences?