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Ecology of Teaching (Management Style and Expectations (Good managers will…
Ecology of Teaching
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Risk and Resilience
- risk - endangerment; vulnerability to negative developmental outcomes
- resilience - the ability to withstand and rebound from crisis or persistent challenges
- learned helplessness - the perception, acquired through negative experiences, that effort has no effect on outcomes
- alcoholism - a chronic, progressive, and potentially fatal disease characterized by excessive tolerance for alcohol and by physical dependence and/or pathologic organ changes
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Leadership Style
Characteristics of a good leader
- know your students and respond accordingly
- communicate verbally
- relate to students positively
- be a role model
- be democratic
- be a collaborator
- be a mentor
Ethnicity
Values that are most present in American Classrooms
- Individual responsibility
- value placed on work ethic
- value placed of achieved status
- Stress on assertiveness
- value placed on fairness
- more emphasis on external world
- emphasis on change
- belief in being rational
- emphasis on social relationships
- focus on individual personality
- principals of right and wrong emphasized
Socioeconomic Status
Four factors of SES that influence the classroom
- Income - lower income leads to lower test scores
- Education - Those children whose parents have a high school diploma or higher do better than those with less education
- Family Structure - families that have a nontraditional unit don't always have access to the same resources as a mother, father, and children unit
- Neighborhood - those who live in poorer areas are more prone to the effects of living in a rough neighborhood (i.e. gangs, violence, criminal activity
Learning Styles
Types of Learning
- Logical-mathematical
- Linguistic
- Body kinesthetic
- Musical
- Spatial
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Naturalist
Philosophies of Learning
- cooperative - goal structure students working together to accomplish shared goals
- competitive - goal structure students working against each other to achieve goals that only a few students can attain
- individualized - goal structure one student's achievement of the goal is unrelated to other students' achievement of that goal
No Child Left Behind
- accountability - making schools and teachers responsible for student learning or achievement outcomes
- authentic assessment - evaluation based on real performance, rather than test performance, showing mastery of a task
- standardized tests - tests in which an individual is compared to a norm on scientifically selected items