Teaching Profession
Different Ways of Learning
Teaching Diverse Students/Multicultural Education
Philosophy of Education
Child Development
100
Horace Mann helped establish the first:
What is state-supported normal school?
100
Ethical mind, disciplined mind and creating mind is three of __________ five minds.
Who is Gardner/
100
Way of life shared by members of a society
What is culture?
100
Emphasis on concerns, curiosity, and real-world experiences Educational application of pragmatism.Teaching through field trips, computer simulations, interactive websites, and games.
What is Progressivism?
100
Behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning. Children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the famous bobo doll experiment
What is Social Learning Theory?
200
Linking teacher and student performance to teacher salary to make teaching accountable
What is Pay-for-performance or merit pay?
200
Placing special needs students in regular classroom settings part of the day
What is Mainstreaming?
200
1954 Court decision outlawing racial segregation in schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme
200
The focus is on books, ideas, and concepts with students learning directly from the Great Books. Development of rational thought, disciplining the mind to think rigorously Special attention to teaching values and character training.
What is Perennialism?
200
Theory outlines three modes involved in thinking Enactive representation (action-based), iconic representation (image-based), symbolic representation (language-based)
What is cognitive development theory?
300
An Alternative Teaching Program
What is Teach for America (TFA)?
300
Eight kinds of intelligence identified by Howard Gardner Captures the diverse nature of human capability.
What is Theory of Multiple Intelligences?
300
Recognition that groups, voluntarily or involuntarily, have maintained their culture and language.
What is Cultural Pluralism
300
Less authoritarian, concerned with past and training the mind and more focused on the individual needs, contemporary relevance and preparing students for a changing future. Social reconstructionist is an example.
What is student-centered teaching/philosophy?
300
His theory focuses on the psychosocial stages. The first stage is trust vs. mistrust.
Who is Eric Erikson?
400
Created to identify superior teacher performance and award board certifications
What is National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
400
Recognize that there are trends in large numbers of people. Members of religious, racial or ethnic groups share certain experiences and may share similarities.
What are generalizations?
400
The father/founder of Progressivism.
Who is John Dewey?
400
The following is a characteristic of the ___________. Authority is outside the individual and reasoning is based on the physical consequences of actions., Stage 1 obedience and punishment orientation. The child/individual is good to avoid being punished. If a person is punished, they must have done wrong.
What is the theory of moral development?
500
Two Education Associations that work Work to improve salaries and working conditions of teachers through: Collective bargaining Organized actions Influencing education policy
What is the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
500
Students with learning disabilities, developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities, emotional disturbances or behavior disorders, hearing and visual impairments, speech and communication disorders and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
What are Exceptional Learners?
500
Emerged during the 1960s with the Civil Rights Movement A reform movement that involves the policies, practices, and people to promote educational equity (Banks, 2004; 2007). Turned attention from cultural deficit to cultural difference to working towards equity (Banks, 2004) Lead to programs, conceptual frameworks, and teacher standards (Cochran-Smith, 2003).
What is Multicultural Education?
500
Examines the nature and the origin of human knowledge Empiricism: Sensory experience is the source of knowledge Rationalism: The power of reason to derive true statements about the world.
What is epistemology?
500
He viewed intellectual growth as a process of adaptation (adjustment) to the world. This happens through: Assimilation– Which is using an existing schema to deal with a new object or situation. Accommodation - – This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation. Equilibrium - occurs when a child's schemas can deal with most new information through assimilation. However, an unpleasant state of disequilibrium occurs when new information cannot be fitted into existing schemas (assimilation)
What is Jean Piaget?