Chapter 2

Question 1

magnet schools

Answer 1

• offers a curriculum that focuses on a specific area such as:
• performing arts
• mathematics
• science
• international studies
• technology
• greater levels of autonomy
• professional development
• draw students from a larger attendance area than regular schools

Question 2

response to intervention (RTI) model

Answer 2

• special education teachers work with general education teachers on school wide screenings and progress monitoring to ensure that students are “responsive” to the instruction they receive–determine early and determine cause
• students who do not make adequate progress
• reading and other learning disabilities
• help before onset of years of low achievement

Question 3

four types of knowledge needed for teaching’s complexity

Answer 3

1. Knowledge of yourself and your students
2. Knowledge of the subject
3. Knowledge of educational theory and research
4. Knowledge of how to integrate technology into teaching

Question 4

Knowledge of yourself and your students

Answer 4

• Yourself:
• effective teachers understand themselves and are sensitive to students needs
• happiness to loneliness-they both will happen
• understanding and accepting one’s self
• “recognize that the child’s personality is a fragile work in progress
• Students:
• aptitudes
• ges of development
• READINESS TO LEARN NEW MATERIAL
• “to teach a kid well you have to know a kid well”

Question 5

pedagogical content knowledge

Answer 5

• Wisdom about teaching, learning,students, and content

* Present, analogies, metaphors,experiments, demonstrations,and illustrations

Question 6

National Education Association

Answer 6

• oldest/largest organization promoting professional lives of teachers, includes both teachers and admin
• Originally the National Teachers Association
• More than 14,000 affiliates in all states, DC & Puerto Rico
• Support federal statute that would help set up uniform bargaining for teachers
• Standing committees in:
• affiliate relationships
• higher ed
• human relations
• political action
• teacher benefits & rights

Question 7

American Federation of Teachers

Answer 7

• Form 1916 in Chicago from call to form an Nat’l Organization affiliated with organized labor for teachers (Gary, Indiana - NYC - Oklahoma, Scranton, Pennyslvania, DC joined to bcome AFT
• Open only to teachers and non-supervisory school personnel
• help collective bargaining, organization, reform, etc.
• ½ the size of NEA

Question 8

Phi Delta Kappa

Answer 8

• Int’l professional fraternity of educators concerned with enhancing quality education through research and leadership
• Graduate students, teachers, administrators, must demonstrate high academic achievement, have 15 hrs grad work in education and have made a commitment to a career of educational service

Question 9

ASCD

Answer 9

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum and Development
• profession organization of teachers, supervisors, curriculum coordinators, education professors, admin, others
• interested in school improvement at all levels of education

Question 10

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Answer 10

• Have to have taught 3+ years, usually between 11-14 before apply
• $2,500 to apply for 2 parts
• Electronic Portfolio & Assessment (6 exercises)
• 5% of p-12 teachers are board certified
• WA State $5,000 stipend per year of the 10 years cert is valid
• $5,000 extra if at high needs school

Question 11

The Apprenticeship of Observation

Answer 11

• Dan Lortie
• Teacher candidates, who have spent thousands of hours as students in elementary, middle, and high school, begin their studies about teaching and learning with preconceptions about what the job of a teacher is.
• teacher candidates may fail to realize that the aspects of teaching they have observed as students represent only a partial view of the teacher’s job