Exam 2 Tipsheet


Keith J. Conners, Ph.D. and Stacie Siers, M.Ed.

What Dr. Conners might be tempted to put on his 5x8 note card for Mrs. Siers's exam #2: [Chapters 1,2,3,4,10,12]

  • balance sheets on the teaching profession
  • what made Jaime Escalante, Anne Sullivan, Socrates effective teachers
  • the case for NEA, AFT, and joining a union
  • Christa McAuliffe's legacy
  • comparison of teaching as a putative profession as compared to other professions, with specific details about what makes an occupation a profession or not
  • evolution of normal schools
  • general flavor of NEA Code of Ethics and AFT Bill of Rights what makes a teacher "effective"
  • terms: allocated time, engaged time, ALT, transitions (flip-flops, overdwelling, fragmentation, thrusts, dangles), pedagogical cycle, higher and lower order questions, direct teaching, cooperative learning, mastery learning, PBI, teacher competency tests, cognitive domain, affective domain, physiological (psychomotor) domain, exceptional learners, zero reject, nondiscriminatory education, free and appropriate public education, least-restrictive environment, IEP, learning disability, regular education initiative, mainstreaming, gifted learner (3 indicators), multicultural education, enculturation, classroom climate, categorical and block grants, site-based (school-based) management, school bonds, infrastructure wait time I and II, importance of each
  • types of feedback to students; importance of praise and corrective feedback guidelines
  • instructional strategies alternatives available to teachers importance of success rates; strategies for ensuring student success
  • Q&A's in chapter 3 about the teaching profession
  • pro's and con's of tenure
  • myths and facts about learning styles
  • Gardner's MI: list and explain all 7
  • Goleman's EQ
  • relationship of poverty and ethnicity to educational losses by demographic groups
  • Comer Model and its success with urban schools
  • items contained in chapter 10 school governance quiz
  • sources of revenue for school funding: sales, income, property taxes, "sin taxes"
  • foundation program used to make school funding equitable
  • Kozol's Savage Inequalities and its message
  • key outcomes of landmark cases: Serrano v Priest, San Antonio ISD v Rodriquez, Serrano II, Levittown v Nyquist, Rose and Blandford v Council for Better Education, Edgewood v Kirby, Abbott v Burke
  • The "Robin Hood Approach" pro's and con's
  • educational vouchers vs. tuition tax credits vs. open enrollment accountability movement

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