Features or qualities that identify a person or group.
What are "Characteristics"?
100
Approximately one-fourth of our nation's children live in this.
What is "poverty"?
100
Circumstances that place a learner in jeopardy of failure
What is "At-Risk"?
100
Signs of this type of abuse may include bruises welts, burns, bite marks and other unusual marks on the body.
What is "Physical Abuse"?
100
Most girls experience a tremendous growth spurt in these grades.
What are "Grades 4 to 6"?
200
Physical, sexual and emotional are types of this.
What is "Abuse"?
200
They account for nearly 40% of all young people in schools and they have increased 17% since 1972.
What are "Minority-Group" students?
200
The gap between minority students and white students.
What is the "Achievement" gap?
200
Signs of this type of abuse include learners being withdrawn, running away from home, engaging in fantasy-like behavior, or the learner displaying baby-like behavior.
What is "Sexual Abuse"?
200
At this age, large-muscle coordination is much better developed that small-muscle coordination.
What is "Pre-K, Kindergarten" and "Grades 1 to 3"?
300
To be permitted to partake of anything in excess.
What is "overindulged"?
300
IDEA legislation required schools to mainstream these learners.
What are "Learners with Disabilities"?
300
Mental or physical conditions that limit a students ability to learn.
What are "Disabilities"?
300
Learners suffering from this type of abuse frequently fall asleep in class, have neglected medical conditions, or may come to school dirty, hungary or without proper clothing.
What is "neglect"?
300
Many educators consider these learners difficult to teach.
What are "learners in grades 7 to 9"?
400
The surroundings or conditions within which a person learns and/or lives.
What is "environment"?
400
Despite the images depicted by the media, there is truly not a typical one of these.
What is "Family"?
400
Organizations, establishments or foundations that create rules.
What are "institutions"?
400
This type of abuse is often reflected in extreme or excessive behavior patterns and can include behavior that is too immature or adult-like given the learners age.
What is "Emotional Abuse"?
400
Learners at the high school level are often trying to find this.
What is their "personal identity"?
500
Group of individuals similar in age and interests.
What is "Peer"?
500
Although it is still a problem schools, this is generally on the decline and schools are typically quite safe.
What is "Violence in School"?
500
This sense gives one a belief that his or her existence matters.
What is "efficacy"?
500
Teachers who suspect abuse are required to do this.
What is "report the abuse to a Child Protective Service"?
500
Boys at this age tend to be slightly bigger than girls, but girls tend to have better fine-motor-skills and coordination.