Education, Federal And State Law

Question 1

LEA

Answer 1

Local Education Agency – the local school district/board with 5 to 7 appointed or elected officials who set policies to be carried out by an appointed/hired superintendent

Question 2

Site – based Management

Answer 2

Individual management where principals share decision-making power with teachers, parents and community

Question 3

State Legislator

Answer 3

Create, operate, manage, and maintain school systems. State policy makers for education

Question 4

Per Pupil Expenditure

Answer 4

Average total amount that is spent per pupil each year

Question 5

Funding Sources

Answer 5

State – 46.6%
Local – 44.4%
Federal – 9%

Question 6

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 6

1954 – demolished segregated schools

Question 7

Amendments

Answer 7

1st- freedom of speech, religion, and press
10th- implies state control of education
14th- equal educational opportunity and due process

Question 8

New Jersey vs. TLO

Answer 8

1985 – students can be searched if there’s reasonable cause and advance

Question 9

Tinker Standard

Answer 9

1969 – wearing arm bands as an expression of belief is allowed

Question 10

Fraser Standard

Answer 10

Lewd/vulgar speech can be curbed in school to set boundaries for what is socially acceptable

Question 11

Hazelwood School District vs. Kuhlmeir

Answer 11

1988 – censorship is okay for legitimate issues of education

Question 12

Wallace vs. Jaffree

Answer 12

1985 – if purpose of the moment of silence is to promote prayer, it may not be enacted

Question 13

Lemon vs. Kurtzman

Answer 13

1971- government mustn’t have any effect in advancing or inhibiting religion

Question 14

FERPA

Answer 14

1974 – family education rights and privacy act – who may see what records and under what conditions

Question 15

Child Benefit Theory

Answer 15

Services that are required to benefit students, not the school or a religion. Services include: transportation, textbooks, testing, diagnostic, therapeutic, and remedial

Question 16

DARE

Answer 16

Drug Abuse Resistance Education – builds positive relationships with police and students. Had little impact on drug use statistics

Question 17

Homeless Assistant Act

Answer 17

1987 – homeless students have a right to free education

Question 18

Substantiative Due Process

Answer 18

Concerns with whether schools deprived students of basic rights: liberty, property, privacy

Question 19

Procedural Due Process

Answer 19

Concerns with whether procedures used in disciplinary cases are fair

Question 20

Key Milestones in Education

Answer 20

G.I. Bill, NDEA, Amendments 1, 10, 14, Affirmative Action, Section 504, PL 94–142, EAHCA, IDEA, RTI

Question 21

NEA Code of Ethics

Answer 21

1. Commitment to students; human, interactive, moral. 2. Behavior with regard to the profession and colleagues

Question 22

InTASK

Answer 22

10 standards
Learner and learning – 1.Lerner development 2.Learning differences 3.Learning environments.
Content knowledge –
4. Content knowledge 5. Application of content
Instructional practice –
6. Assessment 7. Planning for instruction 8. Instructional strategies
Professional responsibilities –
9.Professional learning and ethical practice 10. Leadership and collaboration

Question 23

Dispositions

Answer 23

Tendencies for individuals to act in a particular manner under particular circumstances, based on their beliefs. Teacher dispositions– enthusiasm for teaching, continuous learning, believe all children can learn

Question 24

Types of Laws

Answer 24

Enabling law, administrative law, case law

Question 25

Teacher Responsibility Terms

Answer 25

Teachers are responsible for student safety

Negligence, liability, educational malpractice

Question 26

Questions to ask yourself and planning a lesson

Answer 26

Why is this a good unit to teach? How is this important to my students? How does it connect with what I’ve done before and what I’m planning to do afterwards? What do I know about my students that will help me develop the unit and the lesson in it? Why are we doing what I have planned today? Why is this a worthwhile activity and how does it fit into a larger goal?

Question 27

Explicit Curriculum

Answer 27

CRITICAL TERM

Official academic program provided to the teachers

Question 28

Taught Curriculum

Answer 28

CRITICAL TERM

Material delivered by the teacher to the students

Question 29

Learned Curriculum

Answer 29

CRITICAL TERM

What students take away from the taught curriculum

Question 30

Implicit Curriculum

Answer 30

CRITICAL TERM
Hidden/unintentional curriculum – the unstated outcomes of education that students experience and learn by attending school

Question 31

Null Curriculum

Answer 31

CRITICAL TERM

All things not taught in school which implies that the subjects are not valued

Question 32

Academic Content Standards

Answer 32

CRITICAL TERM

Formal, public statements of what students should know and be able to do throughout PK-12

Question 33

Curriculum Guide

Answer 33

CRITICAL TERM

A document prepared by state/local districts that provide detailed information to help plan instruction

Question 34

Scope and Sequence

Answer 34

CRITICAL TERM
Charts that lay out the various topics within a subject that will be included, as well as what level of that topic students will study at each grade level in a particular subject.

Question 35

Teacher-proof Curriculum

Answer 35

CRITICAL TERM
Highly prescriptive curriculum or instructional materials that can be implemented without independent thinking or decision-making on part of the teacher

Question 36

Curriculum Potential

Answer 36

CRITICAL TERM
Using text books and other instructional materials by interpreting their potential to meet the needs of a specific class of students

Question 37

Social Justice
Project-based Learning
Magnet Schools

Answer 37

CRITICAL TERMS

Refer to corresponding note card

Question 38

Value-added System

Answer 38

Teacher evaluation measured by academic progress of students. Connects the teacher and the student’s test scores