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Education Terms
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Ability grouping
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Assigning students with similar skills to learning groups.
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Academic Advisor
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The member of the teaching staff assigned to provide school advice and guidance to students.
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Achievement Tests
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Tests used to measure how much a student has learned in various school subjects
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Alternative Assessment
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Any form of measuring what students know and are able to do other than traditional tests. Examples are: oral reports, projects, performances, experiments, portfolios (collections of student’s work), and class participation.
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Alternative School
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A public school designed by a school district to serve students whose needs are not being met in the traditional public school environment.
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Apprenticeship
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A combination of on-the-job training (OJT) and related classroom instruction under the supervision of a trade professional.
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Assessment
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Teacher-made tests, standardized tests, or tests from textbook companies that are used to measure a student's skills or knowledge.
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Below Average
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Under the usual, expected, or ordinary quality or performance.
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Basic Skills
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The fundamental skills needed to succeed in school and eventually in life. Historically, these skills have included the ability to read, write, and calculate (math).
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Bachelor’s Degree
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An award that normally requires at least four years of full-time equivalent college courses.
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Below Average
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Under the usual, expected, or ordinary quality or performance.
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Bullying
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Repeated negative behavior that a person uses to take advantage of someone
with less power. A bully is someone who uses bullying behavior.
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Cognitive
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A term which refers to reasoning or intellectual capacity.
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Cognitive Learning
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The mental processes involved in learning, such as remembering and understanding facts and ideas.
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Collaborative Learning
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An instructional strategy where students of different abilities and interests work together in small groups to solve a problem, complete a project, or achieve a common goal.
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Context Clues
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The words, phrases, and sentences surrounding an unfamiliar vocabulary word that help the student arrive at a possible definition.
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Conflict Management
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A strategy that schools use to prevent and address conflict among students. It usually includes a set of expectations for behavior.
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Core Curriculum
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The main body of knowledge that all students are expected to learn.
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Curriculum
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The subject matter that is to be learned.
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Cyber Schools
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Educational institutions that offer most or all of their instruction by computer through the internet.
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Differentiated Instruction
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An instructional technique that includes various ways to teach content and assess learning. It is used to meet student needs and differences in readiness, interests, and learning styles.
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Distance Learning
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Taking classes in locations other than the classroom or places where teachers present the lessons including online, DVD, or telecommuting.
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Dropouts
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Students who leave high school before graduating.
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Emotional Development
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The ways in which individuals learn to interact in socially acceptable ways, establish and maintain relationships, and view themselves in positive ways.
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Dyslexia
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a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities.
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Formative Assessment
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A test that determines what students have learned at a particular time in order to plan further instruction.
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Functional Illiteracy
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The inability to read or write well enough to perform many basic, necessary tasks in daily life.
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Gender Bias
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The idea that one gender or the other is short-changed by school practices and expectations.
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Guidance Counselor
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School staff member who provides academic advice to students and their families, helps them address learning problems, and assists students in career and personal development.
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Graduate
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A student who has received a diploma for successfully completing a program or school’s course requirements.
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Grant
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Funds provided for students to attend college that do not have to be repaid.
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Inclusion
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The practice of educating all children of various needs and capabilities in the same classroom.
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Inquiry
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A process in which students explore a problem, and create and work through a
plan to solve the problem.
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Inquiry-based Learning
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An instructional method where students create questions about a phenomenon, fact, or piece of literature, and work to answer their questions through an exploration of the topic.
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Illiteracy
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Lack of reading and/or writing skills.
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Interactive Learning
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Occurs when the teacher or computer software adjusts the instruction in response to the learner’s needs.
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Learner-centered Classroom
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Classroom in which students are encouraged to choose their own learning goals and projects.
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Learning Disability
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A condition that interferes with a student’s ability to learn.Also known as a Learning Disorder.
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Literacy
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Ability to read and write. Also refers to other types of knowledge and skills such
as scientific literacy, computer literacy, etc.
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Literal
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The common or ordinary meaning of words.
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Mentor
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To serve as a role model for another
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Pedagogy
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The art or profession of teaching.
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Placement Exam
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A skills test given to new students to determine what class or courses are best for their abilities and interests.
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Portfolio
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A collection of work that demonstrates and documents the student's learning progress over time. It might include writing samples, examples of math problems, and results of science experiments.
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Prerequisite
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A course that must be completed before a student is allowed to register for a more advanced course.
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Performance Tasks
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Activities, exercises, or problems that require students to show what they can do.
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Performance Assessment
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A test that determines what students know through their ability to perform certain tasks
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Readability
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The level of difficulty in a written passage.
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Proficiency
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The ability to do something at grade level.
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Prompt
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Pictures or words to which a student responds orally or in writing.
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Reference Tools
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Materials for students to refer to in order to check spelling, word meaning, grammar, etc., such as picture dictionaries and/or bilingual dictionaries.
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Scaffolding
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An instructional technique in which the teacher breaks a complex task into smaller tasks and supports students as they learn, and then gradually shifts responsibility for learning to the students.
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Sight Vocabulary
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Words that a reader can immediately read without having to decode.
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Story Elements
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The critical parts of a story include character, setting, plot, problem, solution.
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Special Needs Students
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Students who require special instructional programs to reach their learning potential.
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Syllabus
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An outline and description of a course.
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Transfer of Learning
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The ability to take previously learned knowledge or skills and apply them to new situations.
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active learning
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Describes students doing more than merely listening to a lecture; students participate in activities that allow them to be reflective about their learning. Examples include small group discussion and project-based learning.
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inclusive pedagogy
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Instruction that is intentionally designed to create equitable educational experiences for students of diverse demographic backgrounds, attitudes and prior experiences.
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Apprenticeship
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A system of training in both formal and non-formal education which combines on-the-job training and work experience while in paid employment with formal off-the-job training.
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Constructivism
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Learning theory which places the learner at the centre of the educational process on the understanding that the learner actively constructs knowledge rather than passively receiving it.
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andragogy
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The method and practice of teaching adult learners.
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