History of Education | Educational Terms | Career Path | Societal Implications | Technical Terms |
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What is the Morrill Act?
Granted federal land to establish colleges in every state
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What is a hornboard
flat wooded board that served as a teaching tool during the American Colonial Period
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What is a school principal?
Required to have a masters degree
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What is cyber-bullying?
intimidation through e-mail or social networking
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What is Career and Technical Education?
Abbreviated as CTE
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What are the Southern Colonies?
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
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What are motivate, inspire and influence?
three things that "effective teachers" should be able to do
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What is a B.S. or B.A.
Degree required to be a school principal
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What is diversity?
accepting other people's differences such as race, religion or culture
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What is the number 16?
Number of Career Clusters in CTE in Texas
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Who is Horace Mann?
Considered the Father of the Common School
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What is a school counselor?
Trained professionals who hep students learn social skills, solve issues, cope with personal crises, and make education and career decisions?
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What are the standard and alternative methods?
Two ways to become a certified teacher in Texas
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What is empathy?
the ability to be aware of and understand another's feelings
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What is a public service announcement?
Abbreviated as PSA
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What is the McGuffey Reader?
First textbooks used in schools across the country
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What is tactfulness?
The ability to do and say the right thing at the right time
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What is 2 semesters?
Length of time teacher must work under supervision while finishing education as teacher of record before becoming certified in alternative program
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What is a community?
a group of people that work toward a common goal
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What is student teaching?
College supervised instructional experience
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What is Brown vs The Board of Education
Public schools in Topeka, Kansas ordered to desegregate. This was crucial to the Civil Rights movement.
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What are TEKS?
The guidelines for teaching a specific subject in Texas
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What is the Family and Consumer Science Compository Test 200?
Name of the test teacher must pass to be a certified Family and Consumer Science Teacher in the State of Texas
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What is integrity
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principals.
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What is a statistic?
a piece of data from a study of a large quantity of numerical data
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