Teacher Academy Unit 4 — Vocabulary

The first textbook during the American Common School Period

The idea that people should be treated equally

Courses of study that prepare students for careers related to a specific trade

An adult that provides a student with support, guidance, and help

Movement towards instructional focus of reading, writing, and math.

A policy that prohibits behaviors and actions that will NOT be accepted

Arrangement in which a business or industry provides support for a school

A set of reading books used in the 1930s

Someone who learns a skill or trade by assisting an expert in that trade

Standards of knowledge and skills to be mastered in a specific subject area

Sixteen general career areas that include a wide-range of related opportunity

Elimination of racial segregation in schools

When a student loses the right to attend school or a certain amount of time

Providing proof that educational goals are being met.

Tests the measure students’ performance compared to that of thousands of other students

The average amount of money a school spends on a student for one year

Schools in districts with lower levels of income have more students who are low-income

A small chalkboard used by students in early years of education

Teaching principles that emphasize self-directed learning through sensory experiences

Schools that prepare men and women to become a teacher.

Teaching methods that require students to demonstrate their abilities in a subject area.

A program designed to help pre-k children from low-income families get ready for kindergarten

Students with characteristics that make them more likely to fail.

A wooden board containing the alphabet, a prayer or two, and Roman numerals

Public schools available to children from all levels of society

Lack of access to the basics of life

Members of a reform movement that began in the 1800.

What students are expected to know and be able to do at certain points in their school time

Public school that operates under a charter without the many rules of traditional public school

Isolation, the setting apart, of a certain group from others

Schools run by women for their homes

Differences on learning and graduation rates