Review Intro to Edu Test 2 3 & 4

What is gender bias?

bias against a gender - the thing needed for teaching is Gender Equity. Women have made more progress in educational fields yet get paid less.

What can teachers do to reduce the incidence of violence?

1) Establish a classroom environment centered on respect and kindness, where put-downs, ridicule, and sarcasm are not tolerated 2) Learn how to defuse conflict in ways that save face for both students and teachers. 3) Develop intensive skills in classroom management. 4) Use peer counseling or peer mediation to train students to handle problems before they become serious. 5) Involve students in decision-making processes in areas such as finding methods to handle offenders.

What are some of the things that principals and teachers can do to reduce the incidence of violence?

1) Establish common goals for the school and elicit commitment to these goals from teachers, students, and parents. 2) Establish a firm, fair, and consistent system for running the school. 3) Establish high expectations for the behavior and performance of students and staff. 4) Create a curriculum that supports the values of honesty, integrity, kindness, and respect for others. 5) Use a variety of security measures to keep intruders and weapons off school grounds.

What are the teaching implications of gender bias?

1) Have high expectations for all students 2) Examine instructional materials to be certain that sex role stereotyping or bias does not occur. Try to find alternative methods if it does occur. 3) Examine and address, if needed, the frequency with which students are called on and the kind of responses that they provide the students to ensure that gender biases are not occurring. This can be done by audiotaping teacher-student interactions and listening to unintended patterns of interactions.

What are the five different approaches to multicultural education?

1) Teaching the exceptional and culturally different 2) Human relations 3) Single-group studies 4) Multicultural approaches 5) Multicultural social justice

Name the major social problems affecting education.

1) The child is not living with two parents 2) The head of the household is a high school dropout 3) Family income is below the poverty line 4) The child is living with a parent or parents who don't have a steady, full-time employment 5) The family is receiving welfare benefits 6) The child does not have health insurance.

What are learning styles?

1) visual 2) auditory 3) kinesthetic 4) tactile - different people learn better and prefer these styles of processing information.

How high does IQ have to be in MS to be considered Gifted?

130 IQ starts here.

What year was the PL 94-142 implemented?

1975. What was it called? Education for All Handicapped Children.

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3) Spatial intelligence - refers to the ability to represent the spatial world internationally in the mind, like a chess player or sculptor does. 4) Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence - is the capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of production, like that of an athlete or a performing artist 5) Musical intelligence - is the capacity to "think" in music and to be able to hear patterns and recognize, remember, and manipulate them.

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4) Look at who uses or is encouraged to use computer technology in the classroom. Often, boys tend to monopolize computers and other technology. 5) Eliminate the assignment of sex-stereotyped tasks 6) Organize classes so that students don't segregate themselves by sex. 7) Model sex-equitable behavior.

Discuss the relationship between poverty and other factors which might cause a student to be considered "at risk"?

40 percent of the US citizens receive 12 precent of the national income, whereas the wealthiest 20 percent receive 51 percent. Chances are the student has been physically or sexually abused, neglected, inadequate sleep, poor nutrition, and exposure to the elements. All these may cause problems at school--the environment they live in may affect their stability and ability to get an adequate education.

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6) Establish the school as neutral territory for students, control rumors, and squelch loitering and tardiness. 7) Create alternative schools for serious offenders. 8) Provide students and teachers with training in effective communication.

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6) Interpersonal intelligence - is the ability to understand other people--an ability that we all need but that is particularly important for teachers, salespeople, and politicians. 7) Intrapersonal intelligence - refers to having an understanding of yourself and knowing your preferences, capabilities, and deficiencies. 8) Naturalist intelligence - refers to the ability to discriminate among living things (plants and animals) and to have sensitivity toward features of the natural world, such as rock formations and clouds.

Some people resist the idea of cultural pluralism as a desirable goal. Why?

A and b only.

What is ADA?

ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act - ADA ensures the right of individuals with disabilities to nondiscriminatory treatment in aspects of their lives other than education. These are one of the two federal laws passed relating to persons with disabilities.

How will the changing student population affect teaching?

Because the student population is expected to become more diverse while the teaching population remains heavily white female, the two groups (minority students and white teachers) may have difficulty relating to one, thus limiting the differences of the learning environment.

What is multicultural education?

An approach to education that recognizes cultural diversity and fosters cultural enrichment of all children and youth.

The anticipated student population trend for the next ten years involves...

An increase in the minority population, while the white population percentage declines.

Mrs. Blazer has been strongly influenced by William Glasser's choice theory. Unlike most teachers, she never puts happy face stickers on her students' work or provides them with other rewards like bonus points for work well done. Why would she avoid such practices?

Because she wants students to develop their own internal standards for judging the quality of their work.

Generally, white women constitute the majority of teachers. In the near future, the teaching profession is expected to...

Continue to be a profession in which white women will constitute the majority.

What is Special Education?

Educational programming provided by schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities.

Why do some educators oppose multicultural education in the schools?

Educators who oppose multicultural education in schools do so because they are concerned that a focus on multiculturalism will destroy any sense of common tradition, values, and beliefs in American society. They recommend that cultural pluralism be limited.

What are the six principles of the IDEA?

Fair and appropriate education (FAPE), Appropriate evaluation, An individualized education program (IEP), Least Restrictive (LRE), Parent and student participation in decision making, procedural safeguards.

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Gardner emphasized the need for hands-on work or practice experiences. He emphasized actively engaging in those intelligences; apprenticeship.

What is Enrichment?

Go beyond regular curriculum; engage independent studies.

What did Howard Gardner develop?

He developed the multiple intelligences - linguistic and analytic abilities are only two facets.

Dominic is a basketball player, who has the ability to run quickly, jump high in the air, and make a basket from a three-point range. Which of the following theorist identifies Dominic's ability as a form of intelligence?

Howard Gardner.

Define or list the components to an IEP.

IEP = Individualized Education Program 1) Current levels of education 2) Short term objectives/annual goals 3) Services to be provided 4) Appropriate evaluation 5) Procedural safeguards 6) Services to be provided 7) Lasts only a year

Inclusion refers to...

Including students with disabilities in the regular classroom.

What is IDEA?

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - it was amended in 1997 and 2004. IDEA amended the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975.

Which way of implementing learning style theory in classrooms would be the most educationally sound?

Integrate as many learning styles as possible in activities and lessons so that all students will have the opportunity to perform well.

What did this PL 94-142 do?

It established the right of all students with disabilities to a "free appropriate public education" (FAPE). The law specified that every student had to must be provided with an individualized education program (IEP) - it outlines both long-range and short-range goals for the child.

What is the IEP Plan?

It stands for the Individualized Education Program. It outlines both long-range and short-range goals for the child ^^ see above.

Explain LRE (Least Restrictive Environment).

LRE refers to students with disabilities. It says they should not be educated with the regular education groups, but only when needed.

What legislation does IDEA build on?

PL 94-142, which established special education for students with disabilities.

Explain Mainstreaming.

Place special education students with regular students for a while.

The goal of multicultural education is to...

Reduce prejudice and foster tolerance for other cultures.

What is Talented?

Refers to an ability or skill that may not be matched by the child's more general abilities.

One of the most important requirements for those teaching students with disabilities is to...

Remember not to stereotype students with disabilities.

What is multicultural curriculum?

Several approaches to multicultural curriculum exist, but in essence, it promotes an understanding of and appreciation for cultural pluralism. It attempts to address issues of social injustice related to racism, sexism, and economic inequality by reducing prejudice and fostering tolerance through the formal curriculum.

Explain Inclusion.

Students with disabilities in regular classrooms all day long. Teacher comes to them. Students shouldn't know they are exceptional - they should not be put apart from others.

What does the term at risk mean?

There are chances the student will have difficulty getting an adequate education due to issues or problems they face in their lives out of school. There are six major at risk factors.

What is Acceleration?

They can learn at a pace that matches their abilities; it allows them to process advanced material faster.

What is Sexual Harassment?

Unwanted and unwelcome sexual attention that interferes with one's life. To prevent sexual harassment one must: 1) establish classroom guidelines about name-calling. 2) Address all name-calling immediately 3) Respect different points of view 4) Make no assumptions about students' families or their sexual orientations. 5) Be role models for how all students should be treated with respect and dignity.

What is Gifted?

Usually includes intellectual ability. Bright, can learn quickly.

What are Howard Gardner's eight intelligences?

VLSBMIIN (vlesbmine) (vampire mine) 1) Verbal-linguistic intelligence - draws on the individual's language skills, oral and written, to express what's on the person's mind and to understand 2) Logical-mathematical intelligence - is a person's ability to understand principles of some kind of causal system, like a scientist does, or to manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, like a mathematician does.

What is Glasser's Choice Theory?

it states that if we understand and identify our needs (survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun), we can make conscious choices about how best to meet them.