Exam 1

Question 1

Funds of Knowledge

Answer 1

-Social and linguistic practices

and the historical accumulated bodies of knowledge that are essential to students’ homes and communities,

Question 2

What are the statistics of Minnesota graduates?

Answer 2

75% of minnesota students graduate in four years of high school.

Question 3

What are the poverty extreme statistics in the US?

Answer 3

• 1 in 5 children live in poverty
• US is 2nd in child poverty rates
• 22% live at or below the poverty line ($23,021) 4% line in extreme poverty
• the gap between poor and “non-poor” is twice as large in black and white students

Question 4

How much more likely is children that are born in poverty to stay there?

Answer 4

5 times more likely

Question 5

What are the effects of poverty on achievement?

Answer 5

• attendance
• cognitive: language development
• nutrition: growth of the brain development
• self esteem: what others have
• behavior-fears; being alone
• Maslow’s Hierarchy
• generational poverty
• situational poverty

Question 6

What is general poverty?

Answer 6

Someone who grew up in poverty

Question 7

What is situational poverty?

Answer 7

Someone losing a job to divorce

Question 8

What is a paradigm?

Answer 8

• model
• theory
• perception
• a way in which to view the world

Question 9

What is separation paradigm?

Answer 9

educators know the best way to educate despite students’ home environment

Question 10

What is remediation paradigm?

Answer 10

educational programs serving students from disadvantage background required parental involvement

Question 11

What is collaboration paradigm?

Answer 11

Students and families are collaborators in educational process

Question 12

What is meritocracy?

Answer 12

A system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement. (ex. tracking, school accountability ratings, and grading practices)

Question 13

What is egalitarianism?

Answer 13

A belief in human equality with respect to social, political and economic affairs. (ex. social philosophy advocation for everyones education)

Question 14

What are some reasons why educators leave the profession?

Answer 14

• a perceived lack of respect for teaching
• long hours and salary levels
• difficult working conditions
• 8% of teachers in public schools leave

Question 15

What is the goal behind National Education Goal 1 and 8?

Answer 15

Schools readiness and parental participation.

• parents are the child’s first teacher
• safe environment at home

Question 16

What is the goal for IDEA?

Answer 16

To make education available to kids with special needs.

• engaged with the child
• making sure they are getting accessed properly
• home schooling
• parents have access to records

Question 17

What is the goal for no child left behind?

Answer 17

Parental involvement that empower parents to be a pair of education

• safety of the schools
• rewards and punishes the schools
• good teachers

Question 18

What is divergent thinking?

Answer 18

If one can develop an educational system that meet the needs of all children, and leave no one behind

Question 19

What is convergent thinking?

Answer 19

It is intelligent thinking or “smartness”

Question 20

What is torrance?

Answer 20

How can we as educators promote divergent thinking

Question 21

What is creativity testing?

Answer 21

It is divergent thinking across 4 sub-categories

Question 22

What is fluency?

Answer 22

How many uses can you come up with in creativity thinking

Question 23

What is originality

Answer 23

How uncommon are the uses

Question 24

What is flexibility

Answer 24

How many areas the answers covers

Question 25

What is elaboration?

Answer 25

Level of detail in your response

Question 26

What is hyper segregated?

Answer 26

90-100% of the school population is non-white - not exposed to peers from mainstream culture - lack of understanding norms - may have not been exposed to people that went to college

Question 27

What is mutuality of interaction?

Answer 27

High performance and higher GPA when parents are involved and students stay in school, and higher graduation rates

Question 28

What is the first core belief regrading FLE and families?

Answer 28

1. All families are knowledgeable experts who influence their children in/out of school (funds of knowledge)

Question 29

What is the 2nd core belief?

Answer 29

Expectation that educators will reach out, listen to and understand individuality of families

Question 30

What is the 3rd core belief?

Answer 30

Education best fostered by climate of trust, two-way comm., mutual support

Question 31

what is the 4th core belief?

Answer 31

Educators create positive ways to interact with families-knowing it will vary due to

Question 32

What is the 5ht core belief?

Answer 32

Reach out and engage larger community- develop assists and resources

Question 33

What is Weiss and Edwards 4 aspects of school climate?

Answer 33

1. School's climate 2. Milieu 3. Social system 4. Ecology

Question 34

What is school's climate?

Answer 34

Belief systems, values and general cognitive structure and meanings

Question 35

What is milieu?

Answer 35

Characteristics of persons/groups involve with the organization

Question 36

What is social system?

Answer 36

Patterned ways that staff, family and students related to one another

Question 37

What is ecology?

Answer 37

physical and material aspects of the environment

Question 38

What does E or I stand for?

Answer 38

Extraverted or introverted (their energy)

Question 39

What does S or N stand for?

Answer 39

Sensing (the 5 senses) and intuition (go with their gut)

Question 40

What does F or T stand for?

Answer 40

Feeling or thinking (how to make a decision)

Question 41

What does J or P stand for?

Answer 41

Judging and perceiving (how we deal with the world)

Question 42

What is culture?

Answer 42

Knowledge, concepts, and values shared by member of group

Question 43

What si cultural reciprocity?

Answer 43

The awareness of cultural difference, then recognizing that the way we act and what we believe can be different than how other people act or what they believe

Question 44

What is educentric perspective?

Answer 44

Educator's views on family-school relationships and family involvement in the children's education from their own perspective of the family served by the school

Question 45

What are the levels of culture awareness?

Answer 45

1. Overt 2. Convert 3. Subtle

Question 46

What does Overt mean?

Answer 46

Obvious (ex. dress, race, and language)

Question 47

What is convert?

Answer 47

not obvious by outward signs, require more observation or contact to understand (ex. communication styles, behaviors)

Question 48

What is subtle?

Answer 48

Embedded values and beliefs that define who we are and what makes us unique (ex. values about independence, perceptions about disabilities, expectations for school involvement)

Question 49

What is cultural assimilation?

Answer 49

culturally diverse children must embrace the norms of the dominant culture for success

Question 50

What is cultural acculturation?

Answer 50

Retain own beliefs and practices while assuming the cultural norms of a new culture

Question 51

What is individualistic/collectivistic?

Answer 51

1. nuclear vs. extended 2. self-focused vs. other-centered 3. connectedness vs. autonomy

Question 52

What is marginalized knowledge?

Answer 52

Include in curriculum what is considered important about multi-culture from a Eurocentric

Question 53

What is expanded knowledge?

Answer 53

Include social realities, interests and identities of other cultures

Question 54

What is cultural hegemony?

Answer 54

Impose one set of values one other