Chapter 6,7,8 Flashcards
Organizations with established structures and rules designed to promote certain goals
Social systems
The people who make schools work-administrators, support staff, and teacher
School personnel
The school building or buildings, playgrounds and playing fields, and parking lots
The physical plant
Everything teachers teach and students learn in the school
The curriculum
People responsible for the day to day operation of a school
Administrators
Is the most important administrator because he or she given ultimate responsibility for the schools operation
Pricnciple
Everything that teachers teach and students learn in schools is a third major component of every school
Curriculum
The physical changes in children as well as changes in the way they think and relate to their peers that result from maturation and experience
Development
The practice of keeping a teacher with one group of students for more than a year is used to help teachers better nurture the development of individual students
Looping
Accommodate differences in children’s development by allowing them to acquire skills and abilities at their own pace through direct experiences
Developmental programs
Approach to early childhood education inspired by Maria Montessori
Montessori method
You have a great deal of personal autonomy in scheduling your day and emphasizing areas and topics you feel are important
Elementary educations
Since junior high schools didn’t have the right developmental needs of early adolescents these were made
Middle schools
Schools specifically designed to help students through the rapid social, emotional. And intellectual hanged characteristic of early adolescence
Middle school
