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TExES: Pedagogy & ProfessionalResponsibilities (160) Exam
parent involvement - Answer -For low-income families, programs offering home visits
are more successful in involving parents. Frequent and effective communication from
the school increases involvement. Parents are more likely to become involved when
educators assist parents in helping their children with their schoolwork. Educators and
administrators must receive professional training on working with parents. The
parent/educator relationship must be developed into a comprehensive, well-planned
partnership.
Promoting Involvement:
School districts need to conduct workshops at the request of parents, who may want
training about various parenting skills or about ways to help their children with
homework, reading, or mathematics. The establishment of a parent-teacher liaison to
keep parents informed about student progress and other school-related activities.
The development of community involvement with businesses, religious organization,
and other community groups (e.g., Lion's Club) to expand community involvement with
organizations interested in helping children, adolescents, and young adults. When
needs assessments are conducted to identify the concerns of parents, parents are more
inclined to become involved because they believe their input is valued. Parents should
be part of key school committees that set policy, approve curriculum, or establish
guidelines for various school events. In this respect, a collaboration model is developed
to include parents with all other school personnel.
learning styles - Answer -The ways the student tends to approach classroom tasks and
cognitive activities (e.g. auditory, kinesthetic, or visual).
reporting abuse - Answer -Mandatory responsibilities in reporting abuse or neglect -
must report within 48 hours, no one else can report for you.
instructional objectives - Answer -Specific and usually, but not always, written
statements regarding the exact goals or desired student outcomes for a lesson or other
learning activity. In other words, what the teacher hopes or expects to accomplish with
the lesson.
classroom diversity - Answer -Accept and respect students with diverse backgrounds
and needs. Invite parents to come in and speak about their families culture, create
projects for students to complete about traditions and foods from their culture. Create
sense of belonging in your classroom culture. *Developing in students sense that the
classroom is a learning community is vital to the development of diverse perspectives
and to an appreciation of social justice.
, learning disabilities - Answer -A disorder in one or more of the basic psychological
processes involving understanding or in using language, which may manifest itself in a
imperfect ability to speak, think, listen, read, write, spell, or do mathematical
calculations. Students diagnosed with a learning disability compose almost half of all
students placed in special education programs in schools.
English Language Learners (ELLs) - Answer -Those learning English as their second
language.
Best Teaching Practices for ELLs: integrating visual materials, pairing students so
native speakers help ELL students in collaborative work, hands-on instruction,
vocabulary-development strategies, attention to metacognitive strategies
TEKS - Answer -Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills provides a curriculum guide for
each grade level, used to be tested with STAAR.
vertical alignment - Answer -The process through which courses are sequenced across
a curriculum. What a student learns in their current grade will prepare them for what
they will learn in the upcoming grade; often developed on a state or even national level.
horizontal alignment - Answer -The process through which different sections of the
same course are standardized such that what one student learns in one class is similar
(though not exactly the same) as the material learned by a student in another class;
typically addressed locally.
validity - Answer -Refers to the truthfulness of the assessment information answers the
question. When a test measures what it was designed to measure.
reliability - Answer -Refers to the consistency of test results over time a reliable test is
one that yields similar results time after time when administered to the same or a similar
group or level of students and under the same conditions. The extent to which an
assessment is consistent with its measures.
schema - Answer -A concept in the mind about events, scenarios, actions or objects
that have been acquired from past experience. The mind loves organization and must
find previous events or experiences with which to associate the information, or the
information may not be learned.
formal assessment - Answer -Measuring knowledge or skill acquisition by means of a
standardized test, very often using a commercially published test, although it doesn't
have to be commercially published to be formal, but it would need to be standardized.
Constructivism - Answer -An instructional approach based on the theory on the idea that
children build understanding by an active learning process. Students build their own
learning and knowledge by exploration, discovery and questioning.
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