EDF STUDY GUIDE

cases such as Goss v. Lopez that deal with the proper procedures involving the disciplining and suspension of students would fall under the:

14. amendment

____ promoted the doctrine of the Golden Mean, or the notion that virtue lies in a middle ground between two extremes.

Aristotle

As gatekeepers, teachers must:

As gatekeepers, teachers must: determine which student will talk when.

ter having attended a workshop on problem-based learning, you decide to try it out.You realize that a key teacher role in this approach is to:

Assist students in identifying an authentic problem

Which of the following is true of students receiving special education?

Boys are more likely to receive special educational services than girls

in the context of emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ), psychologist Daniel Goleman argues that:

EQ may be a better predicto of life success than IQ.

Unlike traditional teacher preparation programs, alternative teaching programs

Focus on apprenticeships and on-the-job training.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the famous Brazilian educationist Paulo Freire who opposed social Darwinism?

He envisioned schools as a place where the poor can acquire the skills to regain control of their lives.

What is the evidence that U.S. students are actually doing quite well in their educational performance?

In recent years SAT reading and mathematics scores have reached an all-time high.

Identify an accurate statement about emotional intelligence.

It is the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living.

intify an advantage of being a textbook adoption state.

It provides for a common statewide curriculum.

When Ovando's family first emigrated from Latin America, school was difficult for him because of his limited English proficiency and because he was not allowed to speak Spanish at school. His experience was most similar to that of:

Kinney Lau, whose difficulty in school led to a landmark court case, Lau v. Nichols.

why have many courts rejected educational malpractice lawsuits?

Many factors affect learning and the school system cannot be solely blamed for failure to learn.

Members of which demographic group are at the greatest risk of committing suicide?

Native American males

Which of the following represents a way in which a teacher might informally influence curriculum?

Paula decides to include literature from the African continent in her high school English class apart from the prescribed texts from American literature

Which of the following statements about stereotyping is true?

Popular culture plays an important role in the formation of negative stereotypes.

Which of these court cases led to the advent of Robin Hood reformers?

Serrano v. Priest

Aaron is a young man in his early twenties. He just returned home after serving in the U.S. Army for 3 years. Now he hopes to go to college at his state university to become an engineer. Which of the following federal acts would help Aaron to do so?

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

which of the following provided funds for teacher training and program development in vocational education at the high school level?

Smith Hughes act (1917)

accurate bully statement

Teachers accept the common myths surrounding bullying.

Which of the following is a recommended teaching strategy that can help children from low-income homes achieve academic success?

Teachers should avoid lowering their expectations from students belonging to this group.

a new principal is concerned with the increasing incidents of cheating and plagiarism occurring in her school. She wants to take effective measures to reduce such incidences. Which of the following actions might be the most effective?

Teachers will help students to develop the skills to synthesize and summarize information, use citations properly, and develop their own insights.

Identify an accurate statement in reference to teaching during the early 1900s.

Teaching was becoming an increasingly female occupation.

Which of the following is true of adequate educational guarantees, the educational clauses present in the constitution of different states?

They guarantee that every student receives an efficient, sound or thorough education

Which of the following is true of minority groups in the student population?

They have less access to power and resources valued by society.

statement on no child left behind act

a high-stakes testing culture was created.

the current reform efforts in education can be traced back to:

a nation at risk

Pavel is a new teacher in an inner-city school in Boston. To prepare for teaching, Pavel commits to teach for at least five years. Then, he spends his first year observing and working with Dava, a master teacher, while taking coursework. Only during his second year he will be allowed to teach students of his own, under Dava's supervision. Based on this description, Pavel is part of _____.

a teaching residency program 14

the most frequent teacher reaction is:

acceptance

when a teacher allocates a special week in a month to talk about important female inventors, the teacher is taking the _____ approach to multicultural curriculum.

additive

Which of the following is true of today's families in the U.S.?

approximately 13 million children - more than one in five - live in single-parent families

researching poverty, Shirley Brice Heath found that interactions between adults and children _____.

are fewer in lower-class families and more information driven

Bella feels that her students deserve a safe, orderly classroom in which they can learn. She lets her students know her rules and the consequences for breaking those rules. When students do misbehave, she enforces her consequences quickly, fairly, and with minimal disruption to the class. The main focus of her model of classroom management is:

assertive discipline

Elaine was homeschooled for most of her life before heading to college at a state university. Based on what is known of homeschooled students in college, we can conclude that Elaine is most likely to:

be well-thought-of by many of her professors because professors describe homeschooled students as more self-directed and willing to take risks

the use of a system of positive reinforcement to promote desired learning is based on _____.

behaviorism

hich of the following is a characteristic of charter schools?

can be virtual

____ asserts that knowledge cannot be handed from one person to another (from a teacher to a learner) but must be constructed by each learner through interpreting and reinterpreting a constant flow of information.

constructivism

Identify a reason why teacher education students are considered less talented than other college majors.

education majors are less likely to score in the top 25% on the SATs

A key assumption of multicultural education is that:

effective teachers recognize that students learn in different ways.

a call for accountability in financing of schools means that _____.

evidence that increased financial support results in educational progress.

Marie, a middle-grade teacher, believes that all children can learn if given the right support. However, Tina, her coworker, thinks that it is a waste of time and effort to work with students from certain racial and ethnic groups. Which of the following theories suggests that the academic performance of the students from these groups is likely to suffer due to Tina's attitude?

exception theory

students who embrace an incremental view of intelligence are most likely to:

explore inventive strategies to solve a problem.

t he influence of the business community in America's schools can best be characterized as _____.

extensive

in terms of professional status, many feel teaching:

falls somewhere between professional and semiprofessional

Demonstrating strong existential intelligence indicates that a person has the ability to:

formulate fundamental questions about life, death, and who they are.

states have used different programs to try to equalize funding. In the _____ program, the state provides funds to ensure that each student receives a minimal level of educational service

foundation

When asked to identify the one best thing about their high school, _____ usually ranks at the top of the list of students.

friends

from the following, identify the accurate statement about school superintendents.

hey are usually the most powerful education officer in the school district.

which of the following was an outcome of the San Antonio v. Rodriguez (1973) ruling of the Supreme Court?

holding that substantially unequal school funding violates the Arizona Constitution.

Jean and Stephen were concerned about the quality of education that their son, Galen, was receiving in the neighborhood school. They believed it would not be sufficient to impart religious and moral values to their son. Hence, they chose to homeschool Galen for the rest of his educational career. This religion-based motivation on the part of Galen's parents to homeschool him is a characteristic of:

ideologues

One of the recommendations to strengthen the Teach for America (TFA) program is to:

increase classroom support for TFA participants as they teach.

Critics of middle school education argue that they should be replaced by _____.

k-8 schools

influential teacher organizations are cautiously supportive of a merit pay plan. Provided that certain conditions are met, they would be more likely to support it. Which of the following is one of those conditions?

local teachers should be involved in planning

Paul Pratfall was a young teacher who meant well, but could be easily led off task—especially, when it came to afternoon hall duty. When the school dismissal bell rang, Paul's job was to make sure that the children walked safely and in a disciplined manner from the classrooms on his hall to the waiting school buses just beyond the front entrance. During Friday's duty, one of Paul's colleagues called out to him. "Hey, Paulie, come in here and check out the article in the paper about the big game tonight. You gotta see it!" At first, Paul hesitated, since he was on duty. Then, he went into his friend's classroom to read the article. After all, he figured that he would only be a minute or two. Paul had just begun to read the article when he heard a loud crash and an anguished cry. He and his colleague ran into the hall to find little Jeannie lying on the floor with her leg obviously broken. Based on this scenario, Paul would most likely be guilty of:

nonfeasance.

A teacher's right to freedom of speech as a citizen, regarding matters of public concern is protected due to the holding in the

pickering v. Board of Education case.

Alice is a teacher who has just finished her fourth year of teaching. At the end of that year, Alice was informed that she would be granted tenure. From this point, Alice can expect:

protection from arbitrary dismissal 8

PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS. refers to

refers to the procedures that the government must follow before it deprives a person of life, liberty, or property.

which of the following ranked highest with students while describing their peer culture in middle school?

relational agression

Normal schools were important because they:

represented the earliest form of professional teacher education

Commercialism promotes _____.

self-gratification

Direct teaching model of effective instruction is:

teacher presentation of new material followed by student practice and feedback.

Eelena believes that her main goal as a teacher is to transfer the knowledge and values that her students will need to do well in society. She strives to have her students learn to be academically proficient. She also tries to instill her students with values such as respect, diligence, and practicality. Helena is most likely to rely on:

teacher-centered philosophies

According to Jeannie Oakes, tracking persists in schools largely because _____.

teachers expect little from the low-track students and they do little to improve student performance

identify an accurate statement related to the changing understanding of intelligence.

the understanding of intelligence is broadening beyond traditional language and logical-mathematical factors.

in terms of deciding which approach to bilingual education is most effective, research has indicated that _____.

there is no single approach that is most effective.

A textbook covers twentieth-century U.S. history without mentioning the continuing struggle for civil rights; and pictures throughout the text portray only harmonious relations between the races. This is an example of a form of bias known as:

unreality

hen the Progressive Education Association released their Eight-Year Study, they reported that students who graduated from progressive schools:

were able to think more clearly and objectively.

School boards determine educational policy, and majority of their members tend to be _____.

white ?

by the early part of the twentieth century, women constituted upward of _____ percent of teachers.

90

ccording to educator Hilda Taba, learning in school is different than learning in life because the former:

Learning in school is different than learning in life because schools are more formally organized

accurate statement o n open enrollment

Students become eligible to enroll in any public school with available space

According to Gardner, if one wants to develop students who are willing to face hard truths and value honest behavior, the stress should be on the:

ethical mind

acher asks a student to grade her own research paper and to justify her grade. Identify the level of this task on Bloom's taxonomy.

evaluation

the next major growth area in technology-enabled education appears to be:

hybrid or blended courses delivered neither completely online nor entirely face-to-face.

identify an accurate statement about single-sex schools.

ideas that support single-sex schools fit easily into traditional belief systems.

in the first step of the pedagogical cycle, a teacher:

introduces topic

By beginning a lesson with a challenging riddle or an anecdote, a teacher is trying

motivation

in the context of how teachers are prepared today, there is:

no consensus on how to best prepare teachers.

For-profit schools are a good idea because they will:

offer focused programs and investor oversight will lead to academic success

According to _____, the way to determine if an idea has merit is simple: Test it. If the idea works in the real world, then it has merit.

perennalism

Which of the following actions of teachers is most likely be supported by Gloria Ladson-Billings, the proponent of culturally responsive teaching?

Working to improve the quality of life of the students in the school and community

Nationally, _____ are more likely than students of other races to attend multiracial schools.

asian Americans

when a teacher is breaking down (or "chunking") information to explain the concept more effectively to students, he is engaged in:

clarification

Horace Mann became the nation's leading advocate for the establishment of a _____ school open to all.

common

Multicultural educators that follow the approach called "teaching the culturally different" primarily advocate:

creating close links between school and home so that minority children can succeed academically.

intelligent design

credits an unnamed intelligence for aspects of nature unexplained by science

_____ asserts that the purpose of education is to help children find the meaning and direction in their lives, and it rejects the notion that adults should or could direct meaningful learning for children.

plato

as secondary schools spread, they generally took the form of _____ academies.

private, tuition-charging

Generally, courts have ruled that teachers may be fired for:

profanity

_____ organizes schools around the concerns, curiosity, and real-world experiences of students.

progrevvism

Which of these is an accurate feature of virtual schools?

provide learning over long distances by means of television, the internet, and other technologies

With the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, _____ became a legally sanctioned part of the American way of life.

segregation

the study of the "saber-tooth curriculum" brings us to the conclusion that:

slavish devotion to the content of past times can result in a curriculum obsolete in the face of contemporary realities.

Economic reconstructionists believe that:

that current schools are tools of oppression, teaching the poorer classes to accept their station

in 1949, _____ caused Congress to reverse more than a century of immigration quotas and naturalization and anti-miscegenation laws.

the institution of a Communist government in mainland China

A scientific theory, such as the theory of evolution, is:

thoroughly tested belief unlikely to change.