Chapter 7 – Review & review

1. Chapter 7 – Review & review Review Preview Teachers as leaders Vygotsky’s theory and the Zone of Proximal Development Student characteristics Learning styles and multiple intelligences Accountability and assessment Chapter 5 Piaget Chapter 6 • Macrosystem: educational policy, school choice and diversity & equity • School choice: magnet school, vouchers, charter schools and home-based schools • Diversity & equity Remaining concepts • IDEA, LRE, FAPE, NDE • Common core • School funding • School and class size

2. Piaget examples • The Piagetian stage during which understanding of the world comes through sensory experiences and motor actions. • In talking with Grandma on the phone, the child suddenly exclaims, “Oh, look at the pretty bird!” When his grandmother asks him to describe the bird, the little boy says, “Out there, out there! Right there, Grandma!” He finally gets frustrated and hangs up.

3. Piaget examples (con’t) • Two identical glasses are filled to the same level with juice. A child then watches as the juice from one glass is poured into a taller, thinner glass. The child announces, “It is still the same amount of juice – you can check by pouring it back.” • Mark spends a lot of time thinking about the world as it is now and as it could be if everyone took more personal responsibility for environmental and social conditions.

4. From publisher website (8th & 9thed) Methods for hiring teachers, textbooks choice, and school rules and regulations are all examples of: • Educational policies • Microsystems • Standardized tests • Individuals goals Which level of Bronfebrenner’s model does this highlight? What about if we were looking at changes in these items?

5. Test your textbook definition knowledge • What do we call “a public school that offers special education programs, such as science,music or performing arts, and draws students from different neighborhoods by choice”? • What do we call “a school authorized and funded by a public school district, formed by a group of parents, teachers, or other community members with a shared educational philosophy”? • Both of these offer some choice in schools, but came about for very different reasons. Explain.

6. Gender and schooling What are some of the differences we have seen in terms of concerns regarding gender equity and schooling?

7. Matching cultural terminology (and metaphors) __ minority cultural groups terms from the text take on the characteristics melting pot of the majority culture cultural pluralism cultural assimilation __ society should socialize diverse groups to blend into possible food metaphors a common culture fondue stew __ mutual appreciation and salad bowl understanding and coexistence hot sauce! of various cultures Can you think of how each approach might handle holidays?

8. Quiz 7 1. Leadership, or teaching, styles are the same as parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved? 2. The zone of proximal development is that area of the environment that is closest to the child? 3. Teachers are the most powerful socializing agents of schools. 4. Resiliency in children may be related to factors within the child or the environment.