Final Exam Study Guide Part 1

Separate but equal stems from this Supreme Court ruling, which legalizes segregation.

Plessy vs. Fergusson

Define learning Styles.

Preferred methods of processing information

Define Individual Education Plan (IEP)

A written document plan developed for a specific student with disabilites.

In teaching, this word is modifications to the environment, learning strategies, or materials that are made to help students with particular special needs succeed in the classroom.

Accommodations

The first public secondary school was ____________________ School in what state?

Boston Latin School and it's in Massachusetts

___________________________ Reveres previous ruling that separate is not equal, and outlaws segregation.

Brown vs. Board of Education

A specific teaching that incorporates learning options to better meet the specific learning-related characteristics of individual students.

Differentiated Instruction

This supreme court ruling ________________________ forbids prayer in public schools.

Engel vs. Vitale

Students whose native language is not English and who are not yet proficient in the English Language.

English Language Learners (ELL)

A particular racial, national, or culteral group, including that groups customs, belief, values, and often language and religion is called what?

Ethnicity

Students who are gifted, talented, or have special needs, such as a disablilty, or can benefit from programs matched to their abilities and potential.

Exceptional Learners

________________ is an American politician and education reformer who is responsible for the creation of American public school systems.

Horace Mann

What is Project Head Start and how has the program affected families. Explain.

It started in 1965 . During the of Lyndon Johnson. It affected families positively. Especially to low-income students.

___________________________ was the most influential educational thinker of the 20th century. He influenced the "hands-on" approach for more involved education for students.

John Dewy

An American politician and education that students should be taught in accordance with their capacities and development and argued against teacher centered education.

John-Jacques Rousseau

Describes students who are not proficient in English

Limited English Proficiency (LEP)

Designed to emphasize a particular subject area of talent and attract qualified students from throughout the district.

Magnet Schools

Placing students with special need who show the ability to keep up with the curriculum in a regular class is called what?

Mainstreaming

Who believed that education is achieved not by listening to words but experiences. She started a school based on her beliefs?

Maria Montessori

Who devoted her career to improving the lives of African Americans through education. She founded a college in Florida?

Mary McCloud Bethune

Howard Garner's theory that individuals have a broad range of types of intelligence, each to a different degree, is called what?

Multiple Intelligence

The _________________________ Act under President George Bush increased funding for education and created standards based on increasing school's accountability.

No Child Left Behind Act

A child with strong spatial intellgience have been explored and that there were no more to add to his list of multiple intelligences

Spatial Intelligence

Educational settings that provide adapted programs, extra staff and specialized equipment or learning environments or materials to help students with special needs learn is called what?

Special Education

Preconceived generalizations about certain group of people.

Sterotypes

School lunch cost decreases when the child has a low-income family/parents.

The purpose of National School Lunch Act

What prohibits discrimination based on sex better known mostly for equal treatment of girls in school athletics- Becomes a law in what year?

Title |X of the Education Amendment and its 1972