EDU 200 Review (Chapters 5-8)

Vocabulary

Chapter 5
Educational Philosophy

Chapter 6
Governance and Finance

Chapter 7
Ethical and Legal Influences

Chapter 8
Choosing the Right School

100

Principles used to decide whether or not acts are right or wrong

What is:

Ethics

100

Which of the following is not a branch of philosophy?

a. Paleontology

b. Epistemology

c. Metaphysics

d. Axiology

What is:

a. Paleontology

100

With respect to education, which of the following best describes the significance of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution?

a. It established the principle of separation of church and state.

b. It set land aside for the purposes of funding public education in the United States.

c. It assigned legal responsibility for the education of its citizens to the fifty states.

d. It mandated that all teachers must be licensed in order to teach students in public school classrooms.

What is:

c. It assigned legal responsibility for the education of its citizens to the fifty states.

100

A legal agreement between a teacher and a local school board is best described as:

a. teacher licensure.

b. a teaching contract.

c. a code of ethics.

d. a high-stakes test.

What is:

b. a teaching contract.

100

Which of the following best describes the outcomes of early intervention programs for young children?

a. The outcomes are generally insignificant beyond the early elementary school years.

b. The outcomes are significant during the elementary school years, but they tend to disappear in middle school, high school and beyond.

c. The outcomes are significant through the middle school years but tend to disappear in high school and beyond.

d. The outcomes are positive, significant, and long lasting in the years after formal schooling is complete.

What is:

d. The outcomes are positive, significant, and long lasting in the years after formal schooling is complete.

200

Ann Peterson is teaching the same group of students in the fourth grade this year as she had in the 3rd-grade last year. This process is commonly described as:

What is:

Looping

200

A teacher believing that students are best educated when they study the ideas that have endured through history, such as math, science, and great literature, is most strongly guided by:

a. perennialism.

b. essentialism.

c. progressivism.

d. social reconstructionism.

What is:

a. perennialism.

200

The person or persons most responsible for establishing and maintaining high expectations for teachers and students is:

a. the superintendent for the local school district.

b. the local school board for the district.

c. the principal of the individual school.

d. the teachers, themselves, in the individual school.

What is:

c. the principal of the individual school.

200

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between teachers’ legal responsibilities and their ethical responsibilities?

a. Both their legal and ethical responsibilities describe what teachers must do, as required by law, when they work with students.

b. Their legal responsibilities describe the limitations for teachers (such as requiring that teachers avoid romantic relationships with students), whereas ethical responsibilities describe what teachers must do to protect students (such as intervening in an issue involving student safety).

c. Legal responsibilities describe what teachers must do (such as protecting students’ safety), whereas ethical responsibilities describe what teachers should do (such as objectively presenting both sides of a controversial issue).

d. Legal responsibilities describe what teachers must do in working with administrators and colleagues, whereas ethical responsibilities describe what teachers much do in working with students.

What is:

200

Which of the following are considered to be actions taken by effective school principals? (Multiple answers can be chosen):

1. Communicating the school mission to you and your colleagues

2. Demonstrating instructional leadership and serving as a resource for parents and students

3. Emphasizing extracurricular activities to promote the development of the “whole child.”

4. Creating a teaching environment that allows you to maximize your instructional time

What is:

d. 1, 2, 4

300

Under this act, schools must:

Inform parents of their rights regarding their child’s records.
Provide parents access to their child’s records.
Maintain procedures that allow parents to challenge and possibly amend information that they believe is inaccurate.
Protect parents from disclosure of confidential information to third parties without their consent.

What is:

FERPA or the Buckley Amendment

300

Seaside Elementary School places particular emphasis on reading, writing, math, and science, because, “If the kids get good in these areas, they have the tools needed to understand the world around them.”

The philosophy of Seaside Elementary School is most likely grounded in:

a. perennialism.

b. essentialism.

c. progressivism.

d. social reconstructionism.

What is:

b. essentialism.

300

You’re a high school teacher, and the students in your school are allowed to participate in sports only if they maintain a C average for all their courses. Of the following the group most responsible for setting this policy is:

a. the local school board for the district in which you teach.

b. the administration for your school (the principal and vice-principal or assistant principals).

c. the administration for your school with input from the teachers in the school.

d. the teachers in your school (working through the school’s committee structure).

What is:

a. the local school board for the district in which you teach.

300

Which of the following are ways in which the federal government influences teachers and education? (You can choose more than one answer)

1. Federal laws

2. Amendments to the Constitution

3. School district policies

4. Teacher licensure

What is:

d. 1, 2

300

Teachers’ beliefs in their schools’ ability to promote student learning regardless of external conditions, best describes which of the following?

a. Highly effective teaching

b. High teacher professionalism

c. High collective efficacy

d. Positive teacher characteristics

What is:

c. High collective efficacy

400

What is:

in loco parentis

400

Of the following, the most commonly voiced criticism of social reconstructionism is:

a. It is elitist and places too much emphasis on historical ideas irrelevant to students’ lives.

b. It has abandoned schools as places for learning, instead using schools for political purposes.

c. It places too much emphasis on the individual and student self-esteem.

d. It places too much emphasis on basic skills at the expense of other parts of the curriculum.

What is:

b. It has abandoned schools as places for learning, instead using schools for political purposes.

400

Of the following, which is the closest approximate percentage of district funds that are spent on administrative services?

a. 5%

b. 10%

c. 20%

d. 25%

What is:

b. 10%

400

Which of the following best describes your legal obligations to perform non-teaching duties (such as sponsor a debate club or coach an athletic team) as part of your teaching job?

a. You have no legal obligations to perform non-teaching duties as part of your job.

b. You are legally obligated to perform any non-teaching duties specified by your local school district’s policies.

c. You are legally obligated to perform non-teaching duties specified by your state, but your district cannot impose additional non-teaching duties.

d. You are legally obligated to perform non-teaching duties specified by your local district’s policies if the duties are connected to your teaching assignment (such as a science teacher being required to be a science club sponsor).

What is:

400

Of the following, leaders’ decisions about organizing schools (such as organizing middle schools into grades 6, 7, and 8) are most commonly based on:

a. the backgrounds of teachers and their teaching skills.

b. the developmental characteristics of students and economics (such as the cost of schools).

c. the number of available administrators and the number of available teachers.

d. the qualifications of administrators and the qualifications of teachers.

What is:

b. the developmental characteristics of students and economics (such as the cost of schools).

500

what is:

Due Process

500

As you form your personal philosophy, which of the following statements best describes the personal philosophy that you will form?

a. Your personal philosophy will closely parallel one of the educational philosophies that you studied in the chapter.

b. Your personal philosophy will closely follow the general philosophical patterns characterized by the ethnic group of which you are a member.

c. Your personal philosophy will be refined and change as you gather experience and learn.

d. Once your personal philosophy is formed, it will influence your thinking about teaching, but it will have limited influence on your teaching practice.

What is:

c. Your personal philosophy will be refined and change as you gather experience and learn.

500

You’ve taken a job in a school district and you’ve agreed to teach in an inner-city school. When you enter the school for the first time, you’re uneasy, seeing that the school building is somewhat run down, the school is not air conditioned, and textbooks in some of the curriculum areas are outdated.

You’re surprised, because you recently visited a school in a different district only a few miles away, and the school was very modern and well equipped. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the difference in the two schools?

a. The administration of the first school is less effective than the administration of the second school.

b. The goals for the local school board in the first district aren’t as clear as are the goals for the local school board in the second district.

c. The first school doesn’t have a mission that is as clear and focused as is the mission for the second school.

d. The property taxes in the first district are lower than the property taxes in the second district.

What is:

d. The property taxes in the first district are lower than the property taxes in the second district.

500

A group of parents on your school advisory council believe that individual student prayer should be allowed in the school cafeteria, believing that expressions of religious belief promotes a positive emotional climate in the school. If the issue is settled in a way that is consistent with legal precedent, which of the following is the most likely conclusion?

a. Prayer will be allowed if the prayer is approved by a school administrator.

b. Prayer will be allowed if it is generic (isn’t associated with a specific religion).

c. Prayer will be allowed if it is initiated by a student and doesn’t interfere with other students or the functioning of the school.

d. Prayer will not be allowed under any circumstances.

What is:

c. Prayer will be allowed if it is initiated by a student and doesn’t interfere with other students or the functioning of the school.

500

Four teachers, Karen, a math teacher, Tony, who teaches science, Judy, an English teacher, and Alicia, who teaches social studies, have a common planning period, and they all have the same students. Today they’re discussing ways of coordinating topics across the four content areas. Based on this information it’s most likely that these teachers teach in a(n):

a. elementary school.

b. middle school.

c. junior high.

d. high school.

What is:

b. middle school.