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)A teacher-training school that prepared men and women with the necessary skills to become teachers.
What is a normal school?
A person who commits to staying up-to-date in their knowledge and skills.
What is lifelong learner?
A Colonial school in which both boys and girls were taught by women in their own homes. Parents paid a fee for their children to attend.
What is dame school?
A school that offers programs that teach the specific skills requirements to begin working in a trade.
What is technical school?
A person who learns a skilled trade by watching and helping an expert in that trade.
What is apprentice?
A way of learning in which students work in groups to solve problems together while learning social skills. Also, a form of group learning in which assignments involve a task or problem students must solve using their complementary and interdependent skills, experiences, or opinions.
What is collaborative learning?
A classroom situation in which the same teacher and group of students remain in one classroom for most of the day, with one teacher teaching most or all subjects.
What is self-contained classroom?
A process that involves asking questions and restating ideas to discover the true message of the sender.
What is active listening?
Taking part in professional organizations, attending seminars and conferences, pursuing an advanced degree, or other activities meant to improve a person’s professional knowledge and skills.
What is professional development?
The first public state-supported schools that gave the same education to people from different levels of society.
What is common schools?
The official version of an organization’s purpose and goals, along with policies and procedures.
What is the mission statement?
A type of education that prepared (and still prepares) students for many career opportunities in specific trades and occupations where skilled workers were needed; formerly called vocational education.
What is career and technical education?
In-depth thinking about ideas or concepts, such as justice or love.
What is abstract thinking?
A process in which a mediator tries to help those in a dispute to reach a peaceful agreement.
What is mediation?
The first widely used textbook series published during the American Common School Period. The books included moral lessons along with science, grammar, and other subjects.
What is McGuffey’s Reader?
An unexpected learning opportunity.
What is teachable moment?
A flat wooden board with a handle on which a sheet of paper—usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals—was pasted on the board.
What is a hornbook?
A discrepancy between verbal and nonverbal messages.
What is mixed message?
A person who is unwilling to say what he or she feels, thinks, or desires, wanting to avoid all conflict.
What is passive communicator?
The teaching principles developed by Maria Montessori, an Italian doctor, emphasizing self-directed learning through sensory experiences; considers all of a child’s needs, not just intellectual needs.
What is Montessori Method?