Career Clusters
How many career clusters?
16
When and what did the first public school in Colonial America consist of
•1st Public School in 1645, Massachusetts
•Free for Everyone
•Not divided by Grade, but sometimes Boys & Girls separated ..
Define the baby boom
Baby Boom was a surge in the birth rate over the next years.
At the war’s end, there was a sustained period of economic prosperity (the 1950s and early 1960s) which was accompanied with population growth.
Where do the schools receive their funding from?
The Government
Bonus if you write down we get it form local taxes.
In what year did the first African American student integrate into an all white school
November 14, 1960
Bonus Ruby Bridges
What career cluster is this class part of?
Education and Training
What is a hornbook?
•A hornbook was a flat wooden board with a handle. A sheet of paper- usually containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals.
•Hornbooks were used widely throughout the colonies until the 1800’s.
Define the National Defense Act
§In 1958 , Congress passed the National Defense Education Act.
1.Money was available to improve scientific equipment for public and private schools
2.Provide college scholarships and student loans
3.Encouraged schools to importee their math, science, and foreign language
Who is the Superintendent of Irving ISD and who is the Principal of IHS
Mrs. Magda Hernandez
Mrs. Ahna Gomez
Define Project Head Start and its importance to education
§The Head Start program was designed to help break the cycle of poverty, providing preschool children of low-income families with a comprehensive program to meet needs.
§emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological
List all the career clusters that are available at Irving High School
Health Science
Hospitality and Tourism
Education and Training
Business Management
Arts and AV
Transportation
Define a dame school
•A school in which reading, writing, and arithmetic were taught to neighborhood children by a woman in her own home.
Define and explain Brown V Board of Educaiton
§Plessy VS Ferguson, 1896
§Racial segregation was still based on “separate but equal” policies
§In 1954 the Supreme Court agreed to hear Brown VS. the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
§The court rules that racial segregation of schools violated the Constitution, because segregated schools were, by nature unequal.
Responsibility for public schools falls under three levels of government:
1.State governments
2.Local communities
3.Federal government
Explain what bilingual education is and how it affected the school system
§Bilingual education is classes being taught in two languages. Spanish, English, Vietnamese,Chinese
§Supreme Court ordered Spanish-speaking students be granted bilingual education.
§The Supreme Court ordered two schools to merge and noticed that language is a barrier for equal education.
What is a career cluster
Is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities
What was Ben Franklin's Role in education?
•Ben Franklin experimented with lots of things.
–Electricity
–Common Cold
–Bifocals
•He began the 1st public library in America in 1731.
•The Library Company of Philadelphia
Describe what behaviorism is and how it affected education
§Teachers believes that by controlling the classroom environment and experiences, they could produce, educated well-behaved students.
§Appropriate behavior and achievements were REWARDED.
§ Inappropriate behavior were given punishments.
How do social problems affect schools?
Societal problems can affect students’ learning to a great degree.
Schools must work to minimize these difficulties.
Students with such problems are more likely to fail or to drop out.
Explain what a Nation at Risk was, and how it affected education
American students fell behind other developed countries in math and science scores.
College graduates were scoring lower on general knowledge tests than in prior years.
Military recruits had poor reading and writing skills.
Many Americans were illiterate, meaning that they could not read or write.
List all 16 career clusters
Explain Thomas Jefferson's role in education.
•Jefferson introduced legislation to divide counties in Virginia into smaller districts that were responsible for education.
–First Public System of education.
•Established the University of Virginia.
Describe the Civil Rights Act and how it affected education.
§The Civil Rights Act of 1964 formally outlawed segregation in the United States public school and public places.
§School districts were ordered to end segregation and called to “undo the harm” that segregation had caused.
However several school districts continued to stall
List 4 socail problems that can affect students and disrupt hteir learning.
Poverty
Violence
Drugs and Alcohol
Sexual Activities at an Early Age
Explain what No Child Left Behind was and how it affected the education system.
§President George W. Bush created an educational reform called No Child Left Behind Act.
§Overall the goal was to improve the performance of schools in the U.S.
§Increase accountability
§Parents freedom to choose their children's schools.
§Increase focus on reading