The flashcards below were created by user
mormons14
on FreezingBlue Flashcards.
-
Man is condemened to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Existentialism
-
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Perennialism
-
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they know best.
Existentialism
-
Despite our enormous and costly educational establishment, this country has more functional illiterates than most other industrially advanced nations. We have more people who do not posses minimum knowledge of the elements of language, mathematics, history, and geography that are considered part of elementary education in advanced societies.
Essentialism
-
Essentialists see progressivist education as being too what?
Soft and watered-down
-
Existentialists see individual choice as being what?
Essential for the development of responsible human beings
-
Essentialism emphasizes the important of learning what?
The basic facts that will be useful both to the learner and to society.
-
An existentialist would most likely attribute a graduate's inability to hold down a job requiring a basic knowledge of reading and mathematics to a failure of the school to what?
Allow the student to experience the practical consequences of not being able to read and do arithmetic functions
-
Essentialist philosophy is evident in which of the following?
Current insistence on high stakes testing
-
What is the most important element in an existentialist school?
The student
-
Essentialists favor which delivery methods for content?
Lecture
-
For existentialists, schools should exist, in part, to what?
Help students find meaning and direction in their lives
-
Existentialists view students as individuals who are what?
Able to develop responsible behavior as they experience the consequences of their choices
-
For an essentialist, the greatest obstacle to students' progress is what?
Lack of rigor in their course work and their own lack of self-discipline in pursuing their studies
-
What would an essentialist find least effective in evaluating student learning?
Student-planned and determined presentation of what has been learned
-
President Obama's encouragement of a common core of educational standards is indicative of his support of what principles?
Essentialist
-
Be that self which one truly is.
Existentialism
-
What book would an existentialistic educator be most comfortable?
The Living Free School
-
What scripture would be most readily accepted by an existentialist?
Wherefore men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man.
-
An existentialist teacher would expose students to what?
A wide variety of experiences from which they can freely choose.
-
Something that is perennial has value...
Throughout the years
-
Different philosophies of education have emerged as a result of what?
Differences of opinion among educators about the foundational principles of education.
-
The Thomas's take a approach to education while the secularists take an approach.
Religious, intellectual
-
The Thomas's classify knowledge that comes as a result of as the highest level of knowing.
Fatih
-
Secular perennialists emphasize in order to search for eternal truths.
Mental discipline
-
For the secular perennialist, school exists to what?
Teach unchanging truth
-
Johann Comenius thought of children as being inherently what?
Good
-
Comenius viewed the purpose of education as a vehicle for...
Reaching perfection
-
Perennialists see as the primary vehicle for conveying knowledge.
Lecture
-
For the perennialist, it is the responsibility of the student to what?
Take notes, memorize, and engage in mental exercises devised to strengthen the mind.
-
Curriculum is a term that means...
The subject matter that children should be taught
-
Comenius believed that children should be taught what?
All branches of both secular and religious learning
-
Perennialists feel that should form the basis of the curriculum.
Traditional subjects
-
Perrenialists, as a rule, see a classroom as a place where are evident.
Order, precision, and time-on-task
-
For perennialists, the best tools for assessing students' progress are...
Essay and objective written exams
-
Perennialists believe that teachers should maintain from their students.
A professional distance
-
A twentieth-century advocate of perennials was...
Robert Hutchins
-
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible" is what kind of view?
Perennialist
-
What is an indicator of a teacher's personal teaching philosophy?
Teaching methods employed in the classroom
-
Education, therefore, a process of living and not a preparation for future living is what kind of thinking?
Progressivism
-
[The first stage of teaching] must deal with the problem of the oppressed consciousness, the problem of men and women who oppress and men and women who suffer oppression is what kind of thinking?
Social Reconstructionism
-
Learning is something students do, NOT something done to students is what kind of thinking?
Progressivism
-
Progressivists view perennials' educators as being what?
Authoritarian and didactic
-
In progressivist philosophy the emphasis is on...
The child
-
Progressivists contend that children learn best when...
They are directed to what is necessary for their happiness and usefulness
-
For progressivists, it is critical that the teacher...
Gets to know the student on an individual and personal basis
-
What isn't a progressivist assertion?
A perfect future is a real possibility for all of us if students learn how to direct positive change in the world
-
For a progressivist, the purpose of schooling is to...
Create students who will be lifelong learners who are able to change with their surroundings
-
Progressivists see students as people who...
Have a natural desire to discover and learn
-
Progressivists see critical curriculum as being...
Developed from the student's needs, interests and initiatives
-
A progressivist teaching approach can be recognized by its...
Emphasis on hands-on learning through projects, cooperative, learning and problem-solving activities
-
A progressivist classroom is managed by what?
A democratic process
-
A progressivist teacher would be most likely to assess student learning by...
Evaluating performance as students are working, student self-assessment, and peer evaluations
-
The progressivist teacher sees herself/himself as a...
Friendly guide and fellow learner
-
Social deconstructionists see progressivists as...
Failing to go far enough to help students to develop and implement long-range, convincing plans to improve society
-
According to social reconstructionists, the students' greatest need is to...
Know all of the facts about the society in which they live, no matter how upsetting or disturbing they may be
-
For a social reconstructionist, the purpose of schooling is to...
Teach students no to settle for what is, but to strive for what ought to be
-
Social reconstructionists see students as...
People who can be empowered to change the world
-
Social reconstructionists see critical curriculum as being...
Developed by current situations and problems
-
A social deconstructionist teaching approach can be recognized by its...
Emphasis on real and current problems to be solved
-
A social reconstuctionist teacher would be most likely to assess student learning by...
Students' performance on real-world tasks
-
The social reconstructionist teacher sees herself/himself as a...
Visionary who opens the students' eyes to the needs of local or global society
-
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
Behaviorism
-
The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Constructivism
-
The consequences of an act affect the probability of it occurring again.
Behaviorism
-
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
Progressivism
-
We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.
Essentialism
-
What thinking is this-a new and better society of brotherhood and justice can be shaped by careful conditioning.
Behaviorist
-
Post-modernists believe that the student has the responsibility to...
Construct his/her own understanding of the world
-
Post-modernists want students to become...
Risk -takers who realize that what is right for one may not be universally right for everyone
-
Behaviorists see students as individuals who can..
Change with the proper stimulation
-
Behaviorist teachers are more concerned with than they are with subject matter.
Teaching materials, methods, and consequences
-
What kind of teacher would help students to create personal connections with what they are studying through problem-solving, discussion, sharing personal points of view, and studying cases that include multiple views of the same situation?
Post-modernist
-
We could recognize a post-modernist classroom by its emphasis on...
Kind respect for diverse thinking and opinions
-
A behaviorist would most likely assess student learning...
Detailed learning
-
Who controls behavior through the application of reinforcement and punishment?
A behaviorist teacher
-
What book would most likely be written by a behaviorist?
Learning and Behavior
-
What book would most likely be written by a post-modernist?
The Nature of Personal Reality
-
For the behaviorist, schools should be dedicated to...
Molding young people into desirable members of society
-
There has been a fight at school. Billy and Jeffy each insists that the other started it. The constructivist teacher would be most likely to...
Require that both boys look at the conflict from their enemy's point of view
-
In her English class, Jenny is required to assess the thee of a short story by relating the action and the characters to her own experience and stating the theme as an insight into human nature or society. From which of the following schools of thought does her teacher probably come?
Post-moderism
-
A teacher is completely committed to computer administered instruction because the machine breaks each concept down into small pieces and then rewards the student for acquiring each piece. This teacher is probably a...
Behaviorist
-
What is a logical reason to enter the teaching profession in the public schools?
A love for helping all children learn
-
Most beginning teachers base their teaching style on...
What they have experienced from their own teachers when they were students
-
According to Eric Hanusek the students of a poor teacher will learn...
About a third as much as those of a good teacher
-
The Gold Standard Study performed by Harvard and Columbia Universities indicated that, even for students coming from impoverished circumstances, a strong teacher contributes many long term benefits to his or her students. What isn't a benefit that students gain from having an effective teacher?
They are likely to live in the same circumstances in which they were reared
-
What are Chambers' attributes of a great teacher?
Empathy, energy, holder of high expectations
-
These characteristics of both teachers and learners: preparation, pondering and proving content, and teaching others, are consistent with what?
The Learning Model of BYUI
-
What is the symbolism of the oak tree that represents the department of Teacher Education at this university?
That our students will one day exert influence for good on students the world over
-
Does this teacher follow the ID code of ethics? "Ms. Smith title her rules bulletin board 'Choose the Right' and decorates the board with the CTR logo?
No
-
Does this teacher follow the ID code of ethics? "Mr. Evensong stops in a rainstorm and gives one of his students a ride home.
No
-
Does this teacher follow the ID code of ethics? Ms. Jones finds that she has forgotten to bring lunch money to school today, so she takes some money from the book order funds for and repays it the next day.
No
-
Does this teacher follow the ID code of ethics?
Mr. Torres teaches the recommended curriculum, but he gives his teaching his personal touch to increase student interest.
Yes
-
Does this teacher follow the ID code of ethics? Ms. Chao identifies Emily Lee by name and discusses the problems she is causing in class with her family and friends.
No
-
When making decisions about issues that may have more than one correct course of action, teachers should, in ever case...
Consider the entire situation and possible long term outcomes resulting from their decision
-
The only way that really works for a teacher to improve his/her practice is to...
Critically examine his or her own practice
-
What aspects of professional knowledge is/are critical for teachers?
- -Profound knowledge of the content being taught
- -Sound knowledge of pedagogy
- -Profound knowledge of the general characteristics of children of the age group being taught and of the individual students themselves
-
The work of gives a common language to talk about the art and science of teaching and an organized system for assessing and improving teacher performance.
Charlotte Danielson
-
What are the purposes of education in early colonial New England?
- -To put religion into the students
- -To create good citizens
- -To give students economic self-sufficiency
-
What colony felt it less important to teach a specific religion to all of its children?
Pennsylvania
-
In what area of the colonies was it most important to promote the status quo?
- -New England
- -Mid-Atlantic colonies
- -The South
-
Although religion was a basic part of all colonial education, in what area of the colonies was it considered most vital?
New England
-
A dame school in New England was somewhat analogous to a modern .
Day-care/pre-school
-
The basic skills girls were taught in New England were...
Reading and household skills including counting
-
The "old field schools" were most often found where?
In the South
-
What colonies were girls most likely to be educated?
Pennsylvania and Delaware
-
Discipline was usually maintained through
Corporal punishment
-
In all of the colonies, what was an important vehicle for educating middle-class boys?
Apprenticeships
-
In a typical school adhering to the principles of the enlightenment, children were viewed to be
Individuals who could be taught to reason and who could enjoy learning
-
The major purpose of the Latin grammar school was....
To prepare boys to enter the university
-
In the early colonies, what was the preferred methods of instruction?
Lecture, recitation, and repetition
-
In colonial New England, the curriculum in town schools consisted mainly of...
The four Rs-readin', writin', 'rithmetic,and relgion
-
What British colonial areas viewed education to be a responsibility of the town or community in which a student lived?
New England
-
What religious group took the most responsibility for educating the poor and the minority groups in the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
Quakers
-
In all of the colonies the teacher was seen as what?
A stern dispenser of knowledge
-
Locke believed that the role of education was to produce...
Sensory experiences that stimulate learning to fill the "black slate" of the mind
-
Rousseau believed that education should be -centered
Child
-
Franklin envisioned an academy in which in addition to Latin, Greek, history and philosophy would be taught.
Practical skills
|
|