Professionalism

Question 1

public schools teach

Answer 1

promotion of democratic prinicples, teaching of common values, and educating a diverse culture of global society

Question 2

attributes of reflective practicioners

Answer 2

admit when they don’t know something, have a caring attitude, willingness to collaborate, critically analyze themselves, teacher/student viewing in reflective lens, demonstrate rational, careful thought to improve practices, be aware of own culture, values, and beliefs, think of diversity as positive, show persistence, have interpersonal communication skills, and value the importance of empowering learners

Question 3

ways teachers can advocate for learners

Answer 3

professional developement, knowing the latest educational practices, attend meetings on students, open communications with all involved, modifying and accommodating learning practices

Question 4

public law 94-142

Answer 4

Least restrictive enviornment

Question 5

Massachusetts Law of Education 1642

Answer 5

parents were responsible for teaching their children to read and write

Question 6

Massachusetts Law of Education 1647

Answer 6

communities must hire schoolmaster if there were more than 50 families in the area

Question 7

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 7

helped to establish a way to fund public education

Question 8

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 8

provided land in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions. It was stated that religion, morality, and knowledge were necessary for a strong government. Federal Govt began to create public school systems and offered them to all children

Question 9

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 9

seperate railroad cars were constitutional (B and W)

Question 10

Oregon School Case of 1925

Answer 10

Americanize schools by making 8-16 year olds attend public schools

Question 11

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 11

May 17, 1954 US Supreme Court announced its decision that seperate educational facilities are unequal (The Little Rock Nine)

Question 12

The Colonial Period (1600-1776)

Answer 12

Puritain Influence, Latin Grammar School, Establishment of Harvard College, Hornbooks, and New England Primer

Question 13

Early National Period (1776-1840)

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, Yales Report of 1828

Question 14

Common School Period (1840-1880)

Answer 14

Common School, Horace Mann, Henry Barnard, Normal School, McGuffey Readers, Compulsory Education, Morrill Act of 1862, National Education Asssociation, and the Establishment of Kindergartens

Question 15

Progressive Period (1880-1920)

Answer 15

Impact of Business and Industry on Ameircan Education, The Superintendent, The Principal, Division of Schools into Grades, The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education, NEA Comittee of Ten, American Federation of Teachers, Manual Training Movement

Question 16

Modern Period (1920-present)

Answer 16

John Dewey, Adult Education, Testing Movement, Sputnik, ESEA, A Nation at Risk, Goals 2000, No Child Left Behind

Question 17

Promoting Partnership

Answer 17

respectful communication, shared decision-making, school as resources, teacher as a resource

Question 18

Puritan Influence

Answer 18

formed the first Ameican schools in 1635; Roxbury Latin School, influenced by religion (if you couldn’t read it was Satan’s way of keeping you from Bible)

Question 19

Latin Grammar School

Answer 19

originally designed for sons of upper classes who were destined to become leaders in the church, state, or judicial system (no girls allowed). Prepared boys for Harvard test

Question 20

Harvard College

Answer 20

1636…offered classic academic course of study

Question 21

Hornbooks

Answer 21

wooden paddle, parchment with the lesson, cover for the lesson made of transparent horn (alphabet, Lord’s Prayer, vowels, and consonant patterns)

Question 22

New England Primer

Answer 22

textbook used by students (first in 1690) alphabet study with Bible verses

Question 23

Ben Franklin

Answer 23

wanted English taught rather than Latin, study science and practical skills (never came about but he led the way)

Question 24

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 24

3rd US prez; University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1825 (intro students to govt and equality) Allowed for electives

Question 25

Noah Webster

Answer 25

1828 first dictionary

Question 26

Yale report of 1828

Answer 26

the need for classical curriculum (wanted conservative plan) church over state; college over university, classical curriculum over electives

Question 27

Common School

Answer 27

available to all people (social harmony)

Question 28

Horace Mann

Answer 28

believed that common school would be great equalizer (father of American education) Secretary of Education 1839

Question 29

Henry Barnard

Answer 29

advocate for common schools; women’s education

Question 30

normal school

Answer 30

1839 Lexington Massachusetts (purpose of training teachers) in the common schools

Question 31

McGuffey Readers

Answer 31

1836 different level of readers; revised and added to over the years

Question 32

Compusory Education Act of 1852

Answer 32

ages 8-14 to attend school for three months and 6 weeks consecutively (penalty was $20) later changed to 8-12 and increased to 20 weeks

Question 33

Morrill Act of 1862

Answer 33

estblished institutions to provide education in agriculture, home economics, mechanical art, and other practical professions (all social classes)

Question 34

NEA

Answer 34

1857 and founded by 43 educators in Philly (organization to promote teachers)

Question 35

Friedrich Froebel

Answer 35

father of kindergarten 1837 (importance of play)

Question 36

superintendent

Answer 36

Horace Mann (Industrial Revelution terminology)

Question 37

Division of Schools into grades

Answer 37

6-8 and 9-14

Question 38

Cardinal Principles of Secondary Eduaction 1918

Answer 38

Health, writing, reading, oral and wrotten expression, mathematics, worthy home membership, vocation, civic education, worthy use of leisure times, ethical behavior