A style of teaching that uses instructional materials and practices that incorporate important aspects of their students' family and community culture.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?
100
School-wide procedures of strict consequences for violent or drug-related behavior.
What is a Zero Tolerance Policy?
100
Statements of subject-specific knowledge and skills that students are expected to know.
What is the Common Core or Content Standards?
100
Graphical representations that demonstrate an understanding of a story or a concept.
What are Mind Maps?
100
The actions teachers take to create an environment that is respectful, caring, orderly, and productive.
What is Classroom Management?
200
Based on the premise that students will be able to determine how to meet their own needs if they understand how to identify and understand them.
What is Glasser's Choice theory?
200
Persistent pattern of abusive or harrassing behavior.
What is Bullying?
200
A broadening of the content learned in schools to include literary and historical contributions from around the world.
What is Multi-Cultural Curriculum?
200
Using technology to link students and instructors in separate locations.
What is Distance Education?
200
Providing structure, clues, help with remembering steps and procedures, or encouragement.
What is Scaffolding?
300
Construct of eight distinct intellectual capacities that students use to approach problems and create products.
What is the Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
300
A category that defines the level of income that a family has.
What is Socio-Economic Status?
300
A course of study with uniform content that every student is required to take.
What is the Core Curriculum?
300
Bringing the tools of technology into daily learning and teaching activities.
What is Integrating Technology?
300
Statements about the knowledge, skills, and dispositions teachers should have.
What are the INTASC Standards?
400
An understanding and appreciation for the ethnic and language differences among U.S. citizens.
What is Cultural Pluralism?
400
Students who experience difficult problems such as homelessness, poverty, abuse, or exposure to environments with drugs and alcohol.
What are At Risk Students?
400
Placing students in ability-like groups for a period of years.
What is Tracking?
400
Technology that is used to engage and enhance thinking.
What are Cognitive Tools?
400
Attitudes, knowledge, and skills that enable teachers to make decisions.
What are Areas of Teacher Competence?
500
Landmark legislation that requires a free appropriate education for disabled students.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
500
Having a low socio-economic status for two generations or longer.
What is Generational Poverty?
500
The awareness of central ideas, stories, scientific knowledge, events, and personalities of a culture.
What is Cultural Literacy?
500
Monitoring and re-directing students' understanding as a lesson unfolds.
What is Formative Assessment?
500
Ways of assessing the effectiveness of teachers and principals using measures of professional skills and student achievement growth.