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(Koch, 2015)

Chapter 4: What Does it Mean to Teach and to Learn?

Academic Language: The language of the discipline that students need to
learn and use to participate and engage in meaningful ways in the content
area
Pedagogy: The art and science of teaching: all that you know and believe
about teaching
Instruction: the act of process of teaching; the way your pedagogy becomes
enacted in practice
Personal Teaching Philosophy: An individuals own pedagogy is informed by his
or her own beliefs and understanding of how students learn best. A teachers
personal philosophy outs itself through the instructional strategies employed
with the students
Learning theory: an explanation of how learning typically occurs and about
conditions that favor learning
Blooms Taxonomy: A classification system of educational objectives
developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s. The taxonomy has three
domains, the cognitive, affective and psychomotor
Social Cognitive Learning Theories: Explanations that describe how learning
involves interactions between the learner and the social environment.
Constructivism: a group of theories about knowledge and learning whose
basic tenet is that all knowledge is constructed by synthesizing new ideas with
prior knowledge. It is actively built by the learner as he or she experiences the
world
Behaviorism: The theory that learning takes place in response to
reinforcements
Cognitive learning theories: explanations of the mental process that occur
during learning
Curriculum: a plan of studies that includes the ways instructional content is
organized and presented at each grade level
Informal Curriculum: Learning experiences that go beyond the formal
curriculum such as activities the teacher introduces to connect academic
concepts to the students daily lives
Assessment: collecting information to determine the progress of students
learning
Embedded assessments: Classroom-based assessments that make use of the
actual assignments that students are given as a unit is being taught
Authentic assessment: an assessment that asks students to perform a task
relating what they have learned to some real-world problem or example
Rubric: a scoring guide for an authentic assessment or performance
assessment with descriptions of performance characteristics corresponding to
points on a rating scale.
Chapter 5: Who are Todays Students?
Bilingual Education: educating English language learners by teaching them at
least part of the time in their native language
Sexual Orientation: an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affection
attraction that a person feels toward people of one or both sexes
LGBT: an acronym used to represent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
people
SES: a families status in society, usually based on a combination of income,
occupation, and education

Students at risk: students in danger of not completing school or not acquiring

the education they need to be successful
Dropout rate: the percentage of students who fail to complete high school or
earn an equivalency degree
Multicultural education: education that aims to create equal opportunities for
students fro diverse racial, ethnic, social class and cultural groups
SEED Project: the national project on inclusive curriculum that promotes
multiculturally equitable, gender fair and globally aware curriculum and
pedagogy through professional development and leadership training for
teachers, parents, college faculty and administrators
Culturally relevant pedagogy: Teaching practices that place the culture of
learner at the center of instruction, cultural referents become aspects of the
formal curriculum
Gender-fair education: teaching practices that help both females and males
achieve their full potential. These teachers address cultural and societal
stereotypes and overcome them through classroom interactions
Equity: the act of treating individuals and groups fairy and justly, free from
bias or favoritism
Theory of multiple intelligences: the theory that intelligence is not a single
fixed attribute but rather a collection of several different types of abilities

Chapter 6: Contemporary Trends in Education

STEM education movement: standing for Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics education, this movement is inspired by a desire to foster
creative problem solving and apply engineering principles to the study of
mathematics and science
Exceptional learners: students who require special educational services
because of physical, behavioral or academic needs
Least restrictive environment: a learning environment that to the maximum
extent possible, matches the environment experienced by nondisabled
students
Inclusion: the practice of educating students with disabilities in regular
classrooms alongside nondisabled students
Special Education: the branch of education that deals with services for
students with disabilities or other special needs that cannot be met through
traditional means
Learning disability: a disorder in the basic psychological processes involved in
learning and using language
IEP: a plan required for every student covered by the individuals with
disabilities education act. Specifying instructional goals, services to be
provided, and assessment techniques for evaluating progress.
RTI: a service delivery system in school aimed at preventing academic and
behavioral difficulties as well as identifying the best practices for teaching
students with disabilities
Differentiation: the practice of using a variety of instructional strategies to
address the different learning needs of students
Cooperative learning: an instructional approach in which students work
together in-groups to accomplish shared learning goals
Problem-based learning: focused, experimental learning organized around the
investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems
Ill-structured problems: a problem that lacks clear procedures for finding the
solutions

Homeschooling: educating children at home rather than in school, parents

usually serve as the teacher
Charter school: publicly funded elementary or secondary schools that are
granted a special charter by the state or local education agency
FERPA: a federal law requiring educational agencies to protect the
confidentiality of students educational records
Due process: a formal process such as a legal proceeding, that follows
established rules designed to protect the rights of the people involved
Tenure: a status granted to a teacher, usually after probationary period that
protects him or her from dismissal except for reasons of incompetence, gross
misconduct or other conditions stipulated by the state

Chapter 7: Digital Technologies and Education

Digital natives: people who have grown up using the digital language of
computers etc.
Flat classroom: a classroom in which students, like the teacher have ready
access to info so that the teacher is not the lone expert
Simulation: a computer program that imitates a real world experience
Model: a representation of a system or an object
AR: a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical real world environment whose
elements are augmented by computer generated sensory input
Virtual reality: replaces the real world with a simulated one that has all the
elements of the real world modeled by computer graphics
QR code: a type of barcode that is two dimensional, when scanned it links to a
website or a video or some printed material that is available digitally
Wiki: an online website that allows people to add, remove, and otherwise edit
or change the content
Blogs: an online journal using software that makes it easy for the user to
create frequent entries
Twitter: an online social networking site that enables its users to send and
read text based posts from up to 140 characters, known as tweets
Facebook: a social networking service and website that by 2015 had more
than a billion monthly users worldwide.
Technological fluency: proficiency in the use of technology including an
understanding of the way technology systems operate and the ability to use
technology to access info from a wide variety of sources
Digital divide: the division between people who are rich in technology access
and expertise and those who are poor in this
Assistive Tech: a device or service that increases the capabilities of people
with disabilities
Interactive whiteboard: a whiteboard that works together with a computer to
display and save information
Chapter 8: The Global Classroom
Knowledge economy: an economic system in which the use and exchange of
knowledge plays a dominant role, in this economy knowledge is both an
economic asset and a key production
Online learning: the use of the internet to provide programs of study or
individual courses that offer instructional materials and interactions between
teachers and students
Globalization: the increase of global connectivity, integration and
interdependence in economic cultural social and technological spheres
Metacognition: the understanding of your own thinking and learning processes

Gaming: used in this context gaming refers to playing computer and video
games
Serious learning games: these games target the acquisition of knowledge as
its own end and foster habits of mind and understanding that are generally
useful or used within an academic context
Digital media: web-interactive video games, podcasts, and lesson plans
downloaded to digital devices such as laptops, cell phones etc.
Virtual school: an institution that exists in cyberspace, teaching al of its
classes online
3D printing: the use of technologies that construct physical objects from three
dimensional digital content
Chapter 9: The classroom as Community
Classroom management: the ways teachers create and effective classroom
environment for learning
Classroom community: a sense of common purpose and values shared by the
teacher and students in a classroom
Responsive classroom: an approach to teaching and learning, developed by
the northeast foundation for children that seeks to bring together social and
academic learning
Service learning: a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful
community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning
experience, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities
Bullying: repeated cruelty, physical or psychological, by a powerful person
toward a less powerful person
Cyber bullying: bullying or harassment through electronic means such as as email, etc.
School resource officer: a law enforcement officer trained to work with and in
schools