Final

Question 0

Buckley Amendment

Answer 0

A federal law, also called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, that describes who may have access to a student’s educational records.

Question 1

Academic Freedom

Answer 1

The right of teachers to choose both content and teaching methods based on their professional judgement.

Question 2

Collective bargaining

Answer 2

The process that occurs when a local chapter of a professional organization negotiates with a school district over the rights of the teachers and the conditions of employment.

Question 3

Copyright Laws

Answer 3

Federal laws designed to protect the intellectual property of authors, which includes printed matter, videos, computer software, and various other types of original work.

Question 4

Corporal Punishment

Answer 4

The use of physical, punitive disciplinary actions to correct student misbehavior.

Question 5

Due Process

Answer 5

A set of legal guidelines, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, that must be followed to protect individuals from arbitrary or capricious actions by those in authority.

Question 6

Establishment Clause

Answer 6

The clause of the First Amendment that prohibits the establishment of a national religion.

Question 7

Fair-use Guidelines

Answer 7

Policies that specify limitations in the use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes.

Question 8

Free Exercise Clause

Answer 8

The clause of the First Amendment that prohibits the government from interfering with individuals’ rights to hold religious beliefs and freely practice religion.

Question 9

Grievance

Answer 9

A formal complaint against an employer alleging unsatisfactory working conditions.

Question 10

In Loco Parentis

Answer 10

A principle meaning “in place of parents” that requires teachers to use the same judgement and care as parents in protecting the children under their supervision.

Question 11

Licensure

Answer 11

The process by which a state evaluates the credentials of prospective teachers to ensure that they have achieved satisfactory levels of teaching competence and are morally fit to work with young.

Question 12

Negligence

Answer 12

A teacher’s or other school employee’s failure to exercise sufficient care in protecting students from injury.

Question 13

Notoriety

Answer 13

The extent to which a teacher’s behavior becomes known and is controversial.

Question 14

Professional Ethics

Answer 14

A set of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior.

Question 15

Segregation

Answer 15

The separation of students based on racial or socioeconomic criteria.

Question 16

Reduction in Force

Answer 16

The elimination of teaching positions because of declining student enrollment or school funds. Also known as “riffing.”

Question 17

Teaching Contract

Answer 17

A legal employment agreement between a teacher and a local school board.

Question 18

Tenure

Answer 18

A legal safeguard that provides job security by preventing teacher dismissal without cause.

Question 19

Censorship

Answer 19

The practice of prohibiting objectionable materials, such as certain books used in libraries or in academic classes.

Question 20

Character Education

Answer 20

A curriculum approach to developing student morality that emphasizes teaching and rewarding moral values and positive character traits, such as honesty and citizenship.

Question 21

Core Curriculum

Answer 21

A common course of study for all students that includes basic skills and knowledge and is supported by essentialist philosophies.

Question 22

Curriculum

Answer 22

Everything that teachers teach and students learn in schools.

Question 23

Explicit Curriculum

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The stated curriculum found in textbooks, curriculum guides, and standards, as well as other planned formal education experiences.

Question 24

Extracurriculum

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The part if the curriculum consisting of learning experiences that go beyond the core of students’ formal studies.

Question 25

Implicit Curriculum

Answer 25

The unstated and sometimes unintended aspects of the curriculum.

Question 26

Instruction

Answer 26

The strategies teachers use to help students reach learning goals in the curriculum.

Question 27

Integrated Curriculum

Answer 27

A form of curriculum in which concepts and skills from various disciplines are combined and related.

Question 28

Intelligent Design

Answer 28

A theory suggesting that certain features of the universe and of living things are so complex that their existence is best explained by an intelligent cause, rather than by an undirected process such as natural selection.

Question 29

Moral Education

Answer 29

A curricular approach to teaching morality that emphasizes the development of students’ moral reasoning.

Question 30

Null Curriculum

Answer 30

Topics left out of the course of study.

Question 31

Phonics

Answer 31

An approach to reading instruction that emphasizes the relationship between letters and the sounds they make and stresses learning basic letter-sound patterns and rules for sounding out words.

Question 32

Service Learning

Answer 32

An approach to character education that combines service to the community with content-learning objectives.

Question 33

21st Century Skills

Answer 33

A curriculum reform movement that emphasizes skills such as global awareness, civic literacy, critical thinking, communication, and technology expertise, which people need to function effectively in the 21st century.

Question 34

Whole Language

Answer 34

An approach to reading instruction that integrates reading into the total literacy process.