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Kara & Kamryn's Coggle, Chapter 6: Where does everything fit in?,…
Kara & Kamryn's Coggle
Hidden Curriculum
- eye contact
- friendly cooperation
- passion/energy
- fun
- challenging
- self - changing
- no fear
~the implicit values and expectations that teachers and schools convey about what is important for students to learn.~
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Macro Roles
Democratic Equality
- school is for the good of the public to produce good citizens
Social Efficiency
- schools serve private sector and prepare people for future jobs
Social Mobility
- education is an asset to
accumulate to compete in society
Micro Roles
Academic Achievement- focus on test scores, academic rigor, and best practices.
- graduation rates
- map scores
- ACT scores
- teacher:student ratios
- graduation plans
Social Development- focus on interaction with others, cooperative development.
- social/emotional intelligence
- respecting differences
- rules of conversation
- norms for public behavior
- respect for authority
- teamwork
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Citizenship- focus on informed, thoughtful, political, and community involvement.
-classroom instruction
-current events & issues
-service learning
-extracurricular activities
-school governance
-democratic practices
-desirable civic behavior
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MEES Standard 2
- integrates understanding of students' languages, family, culture, and community when selecting creating and facilitating learning opportunities
Culture
- the lens through which we interpret
things in our society. It holds rules
and norms that are subtle and shared.
It is dynamic and changing
Common Culture
- shared values, traditions, history, experiences, and behaviors that are common across group
- individualism and freedom are valued in our common culture
- free public education
- right to a job
- vacations of fun w/ family
- birthday celebrations
- greetings
- marriage celebrations
- our pledge
- foods we eat
- holidays
Culture of Families
- ethnicity, religion, language, SES, etc..
- for an individual family, culture will often trump all else
Cultural Values
- differences can lead to conflict between parents and schools
- In schools this may be debated in book choices, bullying, discrimination issues, holidays, languages, etc...
School of Culture
- reflects the community traditions
Community Culture
- community partnerships
- care to learn
- watch dog
IDEA
- individuals w/ disabilities act
- IEP
- FAPE
- LRE
- appropriate evaluation
- parent and teacher participation
- procedural safeguards
Areas of Education
Suburban
- 50% of population
- becoming more diverse
- poverty still exists here
- out performs rural and urban students on achievement tests
- mid- size: 4,800- 7,000
Urban
- rich in libraries, museums, theaters
- greater diversity
- 1 in 5 residents are foreign born
- large gap between wealthy and poor
- magnet & charter schools are popular
Rural
- 21% of population lives in rural area
- 14% of rural population lives in poverty
- on standardized assessment
- teacher shortages
- 1,000 enrollment
- federal government currently funds incentives
- 1965 Elem. and Sec. education act
- title 1 funding, free and reduced lunch
- school funding shortages due to local taxes
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School Choice
Charter Schools
- publicly funded but run independently:uses alt. method
- must show success to stay funded
- in MO: 38 charter schools w/ 17,868 students
- admits any applicants until they reach capacity
- often a lottery system
- different techniques draw people to them
Vouchers
- not yet legal in MO
- used in 16 states and DC
- an amount of money issued by tax funds that would follow a student to public, private, charter, and magnet schools.
Magnet School
- selective acceptance (attracts people)
- public school w/ special curricula
*Nixa: John Thomas School of Discovery
*Springfield Choice Program
Private
- in MO: 115,7443 students or 12% of school age children enrolled in 662 private schools and increasing numbers.
- private schools may follow the MLS but are not required they are private.
Home schooling
- increasing
- 1,770, 000 students home schooled in US 3.4% of school-aged population.
Virtual Schools
- Launch
- 350 schools in MO are apart of the collective group
- based in Springfield, MO
- K-12 online learning opportunity
- free for MO families
- AMI: Alternative Methods of Instruction
Online Learning
- Asynchronous: sent out work for students to do on own time
- Synchronous: all on computer at the same time (zoom) doing work. complicated.
*can do both on same day
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