Subjects
What is one thing that elementary schools teach in science?
Possible answers: plants, seasons, color, light, sound, and animals
There are 5 different types of curriculum, what are they?
Interdisciplinary Curriculum, Cooperative learning, Differentiated Instruction, Flipped Classroom, Multicultural curriculum
What do teachers use textbooks for?
Use, teach, and assign work
What can the Common Core State Standards be abbreviated as?
CCSS
In the 1960's what kind of mathematic curriculum developed?
New Math
We define Curriculum as what?
all organized and intended experiences of the student for which the school accepts responsibility
More than _____ states have a textbook adoption process. Fill in the blank.
20
What are the Common Core Standards?
They define the knowledge and skills students should have within their k-12 education careers so that they will graduate high school able to succeed.
What percent of US students are enrolled in a foreign language?
44%
Out of the 5 different Curriculums, which one focuses on a model in a classroom where the lecture and homework is reversed?
Flipped Classroom
What is happening to the original textbooks?
They are being replaced by electronic versions
How many states have adopted this standard as of 2014?
44
Social Studies is defined as what?
The study of people and their ideas, actions, and relationships.
Intent to help students evaluate the worth of ideas, opinions, or evidence before making __________ or ______. Fill in the blank.
decisions, judgements
Textbooks try to cover too much what?
Material
Many people believed that what students should learn in English language arts and math should not differ depending on ______. Fill in the blank.
State
What are 3 electives that high schools offer to students?
personal finance, art history, introduction to computers and applications, psychology, technology education, distributive education, home economics, and business education
Several prominent educational researchers produced studies showing what?
students placed in the lower tracks received an inferior curriculum and less stimulating instruction than students in the academic tracks
Critics claim what about textbooks?
The believe they are dumbed down
The Distract of Columbia