PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION TERMS


Withitness - the teachers perceive everything in all areas of the classroom at all times. Desists - the teacher engages in an effort to stop a misbehavior

Ripple effect - the teacher corrects one student or calls attention to a student for his or her Misbehavior (called desist) and it "ripples" to other students causing them to behave better.

Overlapping - the teacher supervises and attended more than one group or activity at the same time.

Satiation- the students have focused on one learning aspect too long and begin to lose interest, make more mistakes, and misbehave.

Jerkiness - the teacher fails to develop a consistent flow of instruction thus causing students to feel lesson momentum jerks from slow to fast.

Stimulus bound- the teacher has the students engaged in a lesson and then something attracts his or her attention; He or she loses the instructional focus and momentum while dealing with the other issue.

Thrust - the teacher teaches too slowly or too fast or switches back and forth, thus failing to acquire and hold an appropriate momentum for students to learn.

Dangles - the teacher continues to find materials, review lesson plans, and talks with individual students when class as a whole is ready for instruction

Truncation - the teacher engages in a dangle, yet fails to resume the original, dropped activity. Flip flops - the teacher is engaged in one activity and then returns to a previous activity that the students thought they had finished.

Slowdowns - the teacher, when teaching, moves too slowly and stops instruction to often. Thus, the students lose interest or learning momentum.

Over dwelling - the teacher dwells on an issue and engages in a stream of talk clearly longer than the time needed for students' understanding.

Fragmentation - the teacher engages in a type of slowdown, for example, the teacher breaks down an activity into sub-parts that could be taught as a single unit.

Group focus- the teacher keeps the attention of all members of the class at all times, which assists in maintaining an efficient classroom and reducing student misbehavior.

Group alerting - the teacher obtains and holds the attention of the class, both at the beginning of a lesson and as the activities change within a lesson.

Accountability - the teacher holds all members of the class responsible for their learning and

behavior.

Core values - the community of caring program is built on five: care, respect, trust and moral consciousness, responsibility, and family.

Site facilitator - an individual in a given school who is responsible for the implementation of a program.

Coordinating committee- a local committee helps in the implementation of the Community of Caring classroom management model.

Core character traits - these are eight traits of respect, responsibility, honesty/trust, caring/fairness, perseverance, self-discipline, courage, and citizenship that are the basis for the Learning for Life program.

Career exploration - a focus in some management programs such as Learning for Life which provides information on post-secondary education, career readiness, becoming a productive citizen, and transitioning, from high school to the real world.

Skills for growing - the Kindergarten and elementary portion of the Lions Quest program. Skills for adolescents - the middle school portion of the Lions Quest program.

Skills for action - the high school portion of the Lions Quest program.

Self-concept - an individual's perception of himself or herself, including such things as social competence, academic skills, gender roles, and cultural identity.

Managing yourself responsibly - this unit in the Positive Action program consists of managing time, energy, thoughts, actions, money, feelings, and talent.

Treating others the way you like to be treated - a unit in the Positive Action model that encourages students to teach others the way they like to be treated.

Being honest with yourself and others - this unit in the Positive Action model includes telling the truth, doing what you say you'll do, not blaming others, admitting mistakes, and knowing Personal strengths and weaknesses - improving yourself continuously - this unit in the positive action program consists of setting and achieving goals, persisting and believing your potential.

Thoughts-actions-feelings circle - a student has a thought, acts on it, and feels something because of that action.

Readiness phase - in this part of the decision making and problem-solving model, students learn self- control, as well social awareness and group participation skills in lessons on topics such as following directions, listening, resisting and avoiding provocation, monitoring emotions, and working with

others.

Instructional phase - as part of the Social Decision Making and Problem Solving model, students learn a social decision-making strategy to help them in social problem situations.

Application phase - the final phase in the Social Decision Making and Problem Solving model in which teachers use role-playing, guided practice, modelling, and mock situations to help students learn to apply their skills.

Decision-making process - this eight-step model in the Social Decision Making and Problem Solving model helps students apply critical thinking and feeling.

Movement management - the teacher keeps lessons and groups engaged at an appropriate pace with smooth transitions and varying activities.

Service learning - the curriculum integrated academic instruction with meaningful community service both to strengthen academics and promote civic responsibility.

Keywords:

1.          Idealism – spiritual, values, ideal

2.          Realism- science/ what is real

3.          Empiricism- senses

4.          Naturalism- innate

5.          Existentialism- choice, decision, unique

6.          Essentialism- specialization, basic, fundamental

7.          Perrenialism- classic, literature, traditional

8.          Pragmatism- activation of skills

9.          Progressivism-child-centered

10.      Epicureanism- perfection

11.      Agnosticism- atheist, unknown

12.      Stoicism- passionate emotions

13.      Hedonism- pleasure

14.      Humanism- humans

15.      Constructivism- prior knowledge activation

16.      Reconstructionism- solution to problem

17.      Scholasticism- rationalization of church

 

Theories:

1.          Stages of development- jean piaget, thinking

2.          Cognitivism- discovery learning, Jerome bruner, concrete to abstract

3.          Behaviorism- environment, watson

4.          Connectionism- classroom environment, Thorndike

5.          Humanism- Carl Rogers, child centered

6.          Operant conditioning- reinforcement/punishment, Bf skinner

7.          Classical conditioning- habit and stimuli Ivan Pavlov

8.          Meaningful learning- conceptual, graphic organizers, Ausubel

9.          Insightful learning- Activation of prior knowledge, problem solving, Koehler

10.      Moral development- value formation, Kohlberg

11.      Hierarchy of need theory- needs, Maslow

12.      Attachment theory- caregiver, john Bowlby

13.      Identity statuses- jame Marcias, confusion

14.      Field theory- internal and external environment

15.      Bio ecological- system of environment, Brofenbrenner

16.      Choice theory- glasser, decision

17.      Social learning- bandura, modeling

18.      Socio-cultural- Vygotsky, scaffolding more knowledgeable other (mko)

 

Terms:

1.          Metacognition- thinking about thinking

2.          Recitation- thinking aloud

3.          Schooling- system controlled by teacher

4.          Rebus- making a poem out of a concept

5.          Indoctrination- religion, without addition nor subtraction



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