Foundations of Education
To produce good students and to prepare students for life.
What is the purpose of education?
This is what emerges when people know only one facet of a person or group of people.
What is the single story?
This is a curriculum aimed at helping students develop self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and decision-making skills.
What is SEL?
Examples of this are a gardener, lighthouse, compass, or sculptor, to name only a few.
What is a metaphor for teaching?
This is a way of conceptualizing instruction so that ALL students have opportunities for success.
What is UDL?
Responsibility, Respect, a positive attitude as a learner, flexibility and adaptability, personal integrity, equity, passion for teaching and learning, perseverance
What are teacher dispositions?
These are the unstated norms, policies, and expectations that students need to know to succeed in education but are often not taught explicitly.
What is the hidden curriculum?
These are events that occur throughout childhood that can impact a child’s school experience.
What is childhood trauma?
This is a teacher’s vision of the grander purpose of education and its role in society.
What is an educational philosophy?
This informs practice, provides feedback to students, is not graded, and includes frequent checks for understanding.
What is formative assessment?
Montessori, Nature-Based, Language Immersion, Religious, etc...
What are models of schools?
This is what teachers attempt to disrupt in order to bring equity and justice into the classroom.
What is the status quo?
Examples of these are Gallery Walk, Jigsaw, Professional Learning Communities, mad libs.
What is learner-centered instruction?
These three aspects of a teacher’s philosophy must align.
What are beliefs, intentions, and actions?
These are 19 strategies, practices, teaching moves, and/or routines that are viewed as foundational to teaching youth in classrooms as they support learning.
What are core teaching practices?
This is the ability to recognize and analyze systems of inequality and the commitment to take action against these systems — and it can be a gateway to academic motivation and achievement for marginalized students.
What is critical consciousness?
These are two tools that address and tear down opportunity gaps.
What is equity and justice?
This is relying on preconceived notions about the students in one’s class, rather than getting to know each student.
What is personal bias?
This kind of thinking focuses on student strengths.
What is asset-based thinking?
This is a way of teaching that takes into account the personal backgrounds of students and implements them in classrooms.
What is culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy?
These are the various cultural and social norms/ideals that children draw from.
What are funds of knowledge?
This is a mindset focused on diagnosing and fixing students.
What is deficit thinking?
The tenets of this are Healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
What is The Whole Child?
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What is a mill or millage?
This is a framework for thinking and questioning at various levels.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?