Essay 1
Commonly conceived of as “thinking about thinking,” this is a process within the broader construct of self-regulation under the umbrella of executive function
What is metacognition?
During this Spring 2019 semester, Belmont students interacted with students served by SUM in this grade range
What is K-7?
She is the author of BAAB
Who is Mary Cowhey?
Students’ this typically refers to their involvement with schooling, academics, or learning
What is engagement?
It is the common shortened name for the discipline of mathematics
What is math?
This process which integrates goal-setting, monitoring, and adjustment, assists in learning and can be taught, according to APA Principle 7
What is self-regulation?
She is the Communications and Volunteer Manager who came to speak to us at the beginning of the semester
Who is Ms. Holly?
BAAB tells stories from the author’s experience teaching at these grade levels
What are 1st and 2nd Grades?
Mentioned in APA Principle 15, this influences educational performance and learning, as well as social-emotional development
What is emotional well-being?
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is a mnemonic for this
What is the order of operations?
This teaching method enables students to solve problems, carry out tasks, or achieve goals which may be beyond their unassisted efforts
What is scaffolding?
This is the location of Salama Urban Ministries
What is 1205 8th Avenue South?
The author’s classroom has this nickname
What is the Peace Class?
This trend has largely been spurred by broad and indiscriminate enforcement of zero tolerance policies
What is the school-to-prison-pipeline?
It is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter
What is pi?
According to APA Principle 6, this must be clear, timely, and well-explained as it is important to student learning
What is feedback?
Salama means this in Swahili
What is peace?
BAAB describes this as “listening to and affirming a minority voice that challenges the status quo”
What is teaching critically?
Becoming totally absorbed in an activity to the point of losing self-consciousness and a sense of time is a central experience of the engaged life known as this
What is flow?
Pioneered by many ancient cultures, especially the Greeks, this branch of mathematics involves relations between shapes
What is geometry?
Initially drawing comparisons between computer operations and the human brain, this learning theory was the dominant view of how learning works for the second half of the 20th Century
What is information processing?
One of the three areas of concentration at SUM which help attain the goal of developing value-guided leaders who will impact their communities and the world
What are academics, performing arts, or Christ-centered spiritual development?
The author teaches her students that history is this, “informed by evidence and reason”
What is a “furious debate”?
Unlike the colorblind approach which ignores group differences, this perspective is based on the idea that ethnic and cultural differences should be acknowledged and celebrated
What is the multicultural perspective?
Isaac Newton in England and Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz in Germany simultaneously “invented” this advanced branch of mathematics
What is calculus?