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The Teaching Profession
World Roots of US Education
Educational Pioneers
Philosophical Roots of US Education
Everthing Else!
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The profession of educating others. Some may say the transmitting of cultural values, beliefs, ideas, and the curriculum expectations onto the learner.
What is a teacher?
100
During this era, education was transmitted orally, through song, stories, story telling, and music before the invention of reading and writing.
What is preliterate society?
100
Believed intelligence occurs through developmental stages of cognitive growth and child build knowledge by way of constructivism.
Who is Piaget?
100
This philosophy suggests that reality is spirtual and values are universal, absolute, and external.
What is Idealism
100
This protection is provided for teachers to ensure they cannot be dismissed without cause.
What is tenure?
200
This is the process of having mandated requirements that certify a person is qualified to teach in that state/district.
What is certification/licensing?
200
During this era, the purpose of education was to encourage self reflection and emphasized traditional knowledge and values, as did Confucius.
What is Ancient Chinese civilization?
200
This person introduced the early childhood education, kindergarten, and also placed emphasis on sensation and objects for learning.
Who is Froebel?
200
This philosophy suggest our knowing comes from making personal choices and values are to be freely chosen by the person.
What is Existentialism?
200
This part of government is responsible for providing educational funding to the sates and may also generate research and legislation for educational reform.
What is the federal government?
300
The educational reform that mandated all children make significant academic gains on state standardized tests and lead to higher standards for teacher licensing?
What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?
300
During this era this culture made the priestly elite the guardians, along with the obsession of mummification that led them to study medicine, anatomy, and embalming. Also later developed a writing system.
What is the historical era of Ancient Egypt?
300
This person structured a curriculum on science and technology that prepared individuals to be efficient producers in a competitive society?
Who is Spencer?
300
This philosophy deconstructs texts and canons to find their origin and use by dominant groups. Suggests that schools are sites of democratic criticism and social change to empower dominant groups.
What is Postmodernism?
300
This can be described as one of the factors that can effect low achievement of students.
Answers vary (heredity, cultural influences, school factors, environment)
400
Some may consider this the most complained about aspect of the teaching profession?
What is the teaching salary?
400
During this era, this group believed they could cultivate human excellence by giving education an important role in promoting a society's political well being. Sought to answer, What is true, good, and beautiful? They also used knowledge as an instrument.
What is the historical era of the Greeks and Romans?
400
This person believed that the general method had to be in place before the specific method and that learning was gradual.
Who is Pestalozzi?
400
This philosophy suggest reality is objective and exists independently. Values are absolute and based on universal natural laws.
What is Realism?
400
This theory suggests that students with disabilities are in placed in their LRE (to the extent appropriate) by considering the general education setting as the initial placement.
What is inclusion?
500
These findings reported that the problems of American education was "at-risk" compared to other competitors throughout the world.
What is the A Nation at Risk Report (1983)?
500
During this era, educators called classical humanists looked to the past rather than the future and based their teaching more on literature than theology. Education was not provided to everyone, but reserved for an elite.
What is Renaissance Classical Humanism?
500
This person structured instruction into a precise sequence of steps. The learner was viewed as more of a passive learner.
Who is Herbart?
500
This philosophy suggests knowing results from experience and testing ideas using the scientific method?
What is Pragmatism?
500
This is the mandated attempt and effort made to improve student achievement and access to equal to opportunities for all regardless of ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
What is educational reform? (NCLB acceptable)