Chapter 12 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Examinations given to teachers to assess their professional knowledge and skills
teacher competency testing
A series of steps in an occupation. usually the higher steps bring new tasks.
career ladders
A financial reward given to teachers, based on the special quality of their work
performance pay
Allowing parents to select alternative educational programs for their children, either within a given school or among different schools.
School choice
True or False, over 2 million students are home schooled in the U.S.
True
Allows parents to choose from among the various public schools that a school district or state operates
within-district choice
An alternative school that provides instruction in specified areas such as the fine arts for specific groups
magnet schools
Public schools in which the educators, often joined by members of the local community, have made a special contract, or charter, with the chartering agency.
Charter school
A school reform effort to decentralize, allowing decisions to be made and budgets to be established at the school-building level
site-based decision making
A type of educational choice plan that gives parents a receipt of written statement that they can exchange for the schooling they believe is most desirable for their child.
Voucher Plans
Financially driven businesses that typically contract with a community or school district to provide educational services
for-profit schools
A recent trend in student evaluation that attempts to measure real student performance on significant tasks
authentic assessment or performance assessment
A collection of a person’s work.
Portfolio
A scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work
rubric
A theory of knowledge acquisition built on the idea that learners interact with new information to construct meaning from it.
constructivism theory
Learning in which the student takes control of or is positively involved in the process of his or her education.
Active learning
In large schools, the establishment of houses of teachers and 100 to 400 students
Schools-within-schools
People who continue throughout their lives to learn new things after they leave school
lifelong learners
Cognitive skills that make independent learning possible.
Tools for learning
Efforts by the home, school, religious community, and individual to help know good, love good, and do good.
Character education
