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DSST Educational Terms Vocab2
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1. Emphasis on academics=Such as philosophy and math - Promotion based on mastery of material - Academically rigorous - Curriculum determined by administrators and teachers
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Model minority
E.D. Hirsch
Essentialism
2. Exams that cover teachers content areas. Proves teachers are capable.
Teacher competency tests
Mary McLeon Bethune
Apprenticeship
Model minority
3. In 1837 Froebel founded the first kindergarten to cultivate the child's development and socialization. Believed in the importance of establishing an emotionally secure environment for children. Established kindergarten as an integral part of children
Friedrich Froebel
Paulo Friere
Progressivism
Horace Mann
4. For boys who could afford to pay went on to these schools. First step on the way to creating the American High School.
Boston Latin School
Maria Montesorri
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Idealism
5. Occurred as the result of segregated denial patters. Segregation of racial or other groups resulting from circumstances - such as housing patterns.
De facto segregation
Essentialism
Ethnocentrism
Horace Mann
6. Open the Troy Female Seminary - devoted to preparing professional teachers - thus providing a teacher education program years before the first normal (teacher training) school was founded. Wrote and disseminated her views on opening higher education
Horace Mann
Apprenticeship
Epistemology
Emma Hart Willard
7. The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning.
Friedrich Froebel
Model minority
Epistemology
Kenneth Clark
8. Education based on needs and interests of students - Students learn better by doing=Teaching through field trips and games - Emphasis on natural and social sciences - Experiential learning
Existentialist
Progressivism
Title IX
John Dewey
9. Became the nation's leading advocate for the establishment of a common school open to all. 'The father of the public school'
De facto segregation
Pragmatism
Common School
Horace Mann
10. A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other views of reality.
Horace Mann
Behaviorism
Pragmatism
Kenneth Clark
11. Identifying the educational potential of young children and crafting an environment in which the young could learn.
Constructivism
John Dewey
Behaviorism
Maria Montesorri
12. An essentialist that advocated for a more inclusive curriculum that offers all students a shared knowledge - a common curriculum. Authored Cultural Literacy:What Every American Needs to Know and The Knowledge Deficit. Core Knowledge
E.D. Hirsch
Teacher centered philosophy is:
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Apprenticeship
13. School districts typically hired which gender of teachers?
Separate but equal has no place.
Perennialism
men - early on
The new England Primer
14. A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.
Boston Latin School
Idealism
Mary McLeon Bethune
Teacher competency tests
15. Positive rewards for achievement is an example of which philosophy?
Friedrich Froebel
Teacher competency tests
Behaviorism
Mary McLeon Bethune
16. Views free will as an illusion. Reality based on scientific observation. Positive rewards encourage desired behavior. Curriculum based on incremental learning and controlled by school personnel.
Kenneth Clark
Model minority
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Behaviorism
17. Brown v. Board of Education established what doctrine?
E.D. Hirsch
The new England Primer
Separate but equal has no place.
Behaviorism
18. Primary schools in colonial and other early periods in which students were taught by untrained women in the women's own homes.
Dame School
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Common School
Constructivism
19. A system of training a new generation of teachers of a structured competency based set of skills.
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Boston Latin School
Apprenticeship
Social Reconstructivism
20. A public - tax-supported school. First established in Massachusetts - the school's purpose was to create a common basis of knowledge for children. It usually refers to a public elementary school.
Horace Mann
Model minority
Kenneth Clark
Common School
21. The tendency to view one's own culture as superior to others - or to fail to consider other cultures in a fair or equitable manner.
Ethnocentrism
Dame School
Model minority
Plessy vs Ferguson
22. Minority (ethic - racial - or religious) groups whose members achieve higher degrees of success than the population average. Ex:Asians=smart
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Model minority
Paulo Friere
John Dewey
23. The most influential educator of the twentieth century and on e of the most controversial. Progressive education. Broadened education to include health - family and community life - vocational education - psychology
Ethnocentrism
John Dewey
E.D. Hirsch
Maria Montesorri
24. Focus on classic ideas that have survived over time. Develop reason and moral qualities. Teacher-centered. Focus on concepts rather than facts. Emphasis on learning for learning's sake
Perennialism
Kenneth Clark
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
men - early on
25. Moved people from intellectual slavery to education.
Plessy vs Ferguson
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Mary McLeon Bethune
Horace Mann
26. Using the Bible and other Great Books is an example of which philosophy?
Emma Hart Willard
Pragmatism
Kenneth Clark
Perennialists
27. Focuses on teachers. Education isn't focused on student learning.
Separate but equal has no place.
Constructivism
Emma Hart Willard
Teacher centered philosophy is:
28. Identified the crippling effects of racism on all American children and formulated community action to overcome the educational - psychological - and economic impacts of racism.
Pragmatism
Horace Mann
Kenneth Clark
Plessy vs Ferguson
29. Which court case established the 'Separate but equal' doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
Pragmatism
Common School
Horace Mann
30. A view of education as a way to improve the quality of life - to reduce the chances of conflict - and to create a more humane world. Physical world as the basis of reality.Learn from meaningful social experiences. Focus on social - political - and ec
Epistemology
The new England Primer
Teacher competency tests
Social Reconstructivism
31. A philosophy that emphasizes the ability of an individual to determine the course and nature of his or her life and the importance of personal decision making.
Maria Montesorri
Model minority
Dame School
Existentialist
32. An 1896 Supreme Court decision that upheld that 'separate but equal' was legal and that they races could be segregated. it was overturned in 1954 by Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka.
Mary McLeon Bethune
Horace Mann
men - early on
Plessy vs Ferguson
33. Put global effort in to mobilize education in the cause of social justice.
De facto segregation
Kenneth Clark
Existentialist
Paulo Friere
34. Reading the Bible and understanding religion.
Education in early colonial times was meant to:
Existentialist
Separate but equal has no place.
Essentialism
35. A provision of the 1972 Educational Amendments that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program receiving federal financial assistance. (A quality for females in curriculum and extra curriculum activities)
De facto segregation
Title IX
Behaviorism
Behaviorism
36. Centered on the learner. Constant need to make sense of new information. Scaffolding. Links new information. Student and teacher constantly challenge assumptions
Perennialists
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Constructivism
Existentialist
37. Creative approaches placing children at the center of the curriculum
Boston Latin School
Model minority
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
38. Basis of textbooks. Style and Essentialism. The first textbook in the 18th century. Still very religious and moral.
Plessy v. Ferguson *School segregation.
The new England Primer
Pragmatism
Separate but equal has no place.