Kauchak 3
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- metacognition
- students' awareness of the ways they learn most effectively and their ability to control these factors
- stereotype
- rigid, simplistic caricature of a particular group of people
- tracking
- practice of ability grouping that places students in a series of different classes or curricula on the basis of ability and career goals
- single gender class/schools
- classes and schools where boys and girls are segregated for part or all of the day
- giftedness
- abilities at the upper end of the continuum that require support beyond regular classroom instruction to reach the full potential
- between-class ability groupings
- groupings that divide all students in a given grade into high, medium, and low groups
- intelligence
- capacity to acquire knowledge, the ability to think and reason in the abstract, and the ability to solve problems
- ELL's
- students whose first language is not English and who need help in learning to speak, read, and write in english
- acceleration
- program for gifted and talented students that keeps the regular curriculum but allows students to move through it more quickly
- maintainence language programs
- language programs that place the greatest emphasis on using and sustaining the first language
- gender-role identity
- differences in expectations and beliefs about appropriate roles and behaviors of the two sexes
- students withe exceptionalities
- learners who need special help and resources to reach their full potential
- communication disorders
- exceptionalities that interfere with students' abilities to receive and understand information from others and to express their own ideas or questions
- transition programs
- language programs that maintain the first language until students acquire sufficient english
- culturally responsive teaching
- instruction that acknowledges and accommodates cultural diversity
- special education
- instruction designed to meet the unique needs of students with exceptionalities
- ability grouping
- practice of placing students of similar aptitude and achievement histories together in an attempt to match instruction to the needs of different groups
- inclusion
- comprehensive approach to educating students with exceptionalities that advocates a total, systematic, and coordinated web of services
- disabilities
- functional limitations or an inability to perform a certain act like hear or walk
- enrichment
- program for gifted and talented students that provides richer and varied content through strategies that supplement usual grade-level work
- cultural diversity
- the different cultures that you'll encounter in classrooms and how these cultural differences influence learning
- least restrictive environment
- placement of students in as normal an educational setting as possible while still meeting their needs
- immersion programs
- language program that emphasizes rapid transition into english
- collaboration
- joint communication and decision making among educational professionals to create an optimal learning environment for students with exceptionalities
- speech disorders
- problems in forming and sequencing sounds
- multicultural education
- general term that describes a variety of strategies schools use to accommodate cultural differences in teaching and learning
- culture
- the knowledge, attitudes, values, customs, and behavior patterns that characterize a social group
- within-class ability groupings
- grouping that divides students within one classroom into ability groups
- multiple intelligences
- theory which suggests that overall intelligence is composed of eight relatively independent dimensions
- ESL programs
- language program that emphasizes rapid transition into english
- learning disabilities
- exceptionalities that involve difficulties in acquiring and using listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning, or mathematical abilities
- mental retardation
- exceptionality that includes limitations in intellectual functioning, as indicated by difficulties in learning, and problems with adaptive skills, such as communication, self-care, and social ability
- behavior disorders
- exceptionalities involving display of serious and persistent age-inappropriate behaviors that result in social conflict, personal unhappiness, and school failure
- mainstreaming
- practice of moving students with exceptionalities from segregated settings into regular classroom
- individualized education program
- individually prescribed instructional plan devised by special educations and general education teachers, resource professionals, and parents
- ethnicity
- person's ancestry; the ways individuals identify themselves with the nation from which they or their ancestors came
- learning styles
- student's personal approaches to learning, problem solving, and processing information
- language disorders
- problems with understanding language or using language to express ideas
- assimilation
- process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior
- gifted and talented
- designation given to students at the upper end of the ability continuum who need special services to reach their full potential