FELE Study Guide
Formative Assessment - ✔✔Conducted by teachers to improve instruction. Data collected through daily
ongoing lessons in order to measure a students achievement. Examples include anecdotal records,
quizzes and essays, diagnostic tests, and lab reports
Clinical supervision - ✔✔The direct supervision of a teacher in the classroom for the purpose of
defining the teachers professional development needs
Summative assessment - ✔✔State tests, compare results to others. Other examples include end of
course exams and national tests
IQ test - ✔✔Cognitive behaviors, learning abilities and intellectual capacity are measured
Ecological based assessment - ✔✔Informal observation of students interacting with the environment
on a regular school day
Consequentialism - ✔✔Any position and ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions
depends on their consequences
Autonomy - ✔✔The ability to freely determine one's own course in life
Absolutism - ✔✔A belief that there is one and only one truth
Compatabilism - ✔✔The belief that both determinism and freedom of the will are true
Categorical imperative - ✔✔An unconditional command
,Distributive leadership style - ✔✔Spreads decision-making throughout the school, give staff
opportunities to gain the skills they need to assume leadership roles
Downward communication - ✔✔Information is exchanged from a higher level of leadership downward
to staff
Upward communication - ✔✔Information is conveyed from staff to higher level leaders
Horizontal communication - ✔✔Individuals interacting with in their peer group
Diagonal communication - ✔✔Individuals pass on information between one school to another school
or between other departments
The developmental assessment center - ✔✔Developed by the national Association of secondary school
principals to assist with the professional development of school leaders
Curriculum alignment - ✔✔The coordination of the written, taught, and tested curriculum
Multicultural plan policy statement - ✔✔BANKS-goal is to outline how and when schools will
implement educational opportunities that are multicultural
Program audit - ✔✔Elements include signed agreement of acceptance and will adhere to requirements.
Zero reject (IDEA) - ✔✔No child with a disability can be excluded from public education
Protection in the evaluation process (IDEA) - ✔✔There should be non-bias testing with regard to the
education of students
,Free and appropriate public education (FAPE) (IDEA) - ✔✔The education of students with disabilities
must be a public expense
Due process Procedures (IDEA) - ✔✔Parents and students must be given certain rights regarding
assessment placement and the implementation of the educational program
Parent and student participation (IDEA) - ✔✔There should be shared decision-making among the
school parents and students regarding the special education process
High task/high relationship - ✔✔Coaching or selling style
Low task/high relationship - ✔✔Participating or collaborative or supporting style
Low task/low relationship - ✔✔Delegating style
Direct teaching - ✔✔And instructional method that allows the teacher to demonstrate or model the
material to students rather than allowing exploratory learning. Founded by SIEGFRIED ENGELMANN
Academic language - ✔✔Must be understood in order to improve test scores and academic
achievement with ELL students
Machine culture
OWENS& STEINHOFF - ✔✔Leader is so involved in managing the school and making sure it runs
efficiently that he does not put the best interests of the students first or make good decisions for the
students, teachers feel they are not connected
Little shop of horrors culture
, OWENS & STEINHOFF - ✔✔Set rules, no one can change them. Harsh, intimidating, not approachable,
not predictable, faculty and staff don't know what will happen, increased stress
Sheltered English - ✔✔Transition or bridge classes, allow ELL students to be held to the same
curriculum standards as their English speaking counterparts
Commander leader - ✔✔Can be derailed by becoming domineering or intimidating
Strategist leader - ✔✔Smart, analytical and process oriented
Visionary leader - ✔✔Motivational and charismatic but can come off as overconfident and unrealistic
Change agent - ✔✔Always looking for ways to do things better
Reliable test - ✔✔Test questions get the same results each time they are used. Questions are clear and
unambiguous
National assessment of education progress (NAEP) - ✔✔Provides assessments of student achievement
and various subjects. Run by the US DOE. Most comprehensive assessment of what American students
know and can do
Visionary leadership style
DANIEL GOLEMAN - ✔✔Moves people towards a shared vision, tells them where to go but not how to
get there, causes motivation to struggle forward, openly shares information. Best when a new direction
is needed, strong impact on climate. Negatives - can fail when trying to motivate more experienced
experts or peers
Cultural deficiency - ✔✔Students are viewed as disadvantaged and deprived, educators believe
students from low socio economic backgrounds lack proper role models for development
Formative Assessment - ✔✔Conducted by teachers to improve instruction. Data collected through daily
ongoing lessons in order to measure a students achievement. Examples include anecdotal records,
quizzes and essays, diagnostic tests, and lab reports
Clinical supervision - ✔✔The direct supervision of a teacher in the classroom for the purpose of
defining the teachers professional development needs
Summative assessment - ✔✔State tests, compare results to others. Other examples include end of
course exams and national tests
IQ test - ✔✔Cognitive behaviors, learning abilities and intellectual capacity are measured
Ecological based assessment - ✔✔Informal observation of students interacting with the environment
on a regular school day
Consequentialism - ✔✔Any position and ethics which claims that the rightness or wrongness of actions
depends on their consequences
Autonomy - ✔✔The ability to freely determine one's own course in life
Absolutism - ✔✔A belief that there is one and only one truth
Compatabilism - ✔✔The belief that both determinism and freedom of the will are true
Categorical imperative - ✔✔An unconditional command
,Distributive leadership style - ✔✔Spreads decision-making throughout the school, give staff
opportunities to gain the skills they need to assume leadership roles
Downward communication - ✔✔Information is exchanged from a higher level of leadership downward
to staff
Upward communication - ✔✔Information is conveyed from staff to higher level leaders
Horizontal communication - ✔✔Individuals interacting with in their peer group
Diagonal communication - ✔✔Individuals pass on information between one school to another school
or between other departments
The developmental assessment center - ✔✔Developed by the national Association of secondary school
principals to assist with the professional development of school leaders
Curriculum alignment - ✔✔The coordination of the written, taught, and tested curriculum
Multicultural plan policy statement - ✔✔BANKS-goal is to outline how and when schools will
implement educational opportunities that are multicultural
Program audit - ✔✔Elements include signed agreement of acceptance and will adhere to requirements.
Zero reject (IDEA) - ✔✔No child with a disability can be excluded from public education
Protection in the evaluation process (IDEA) - ✔✔There should be non-bias testing with regard to the
education of students
,Free and appropriate public education (FAPE) (IDEA) - ✔✔The education of students with disabilities
must be a public expense
Due process Procedures (IDEA) - ✔✔Parents and students must be given certain rights regarding
assessment placement and the implementation of the educational program
Parent and student participation (IDEA) - ✔✔There should be shared decision-making among the
school parents and students regarding the special education process
High task/high relationship - ✔✔Coaching or selling style
Low task/high relationship - ✔✔Participating or collaborative or supporting style
Low task/low relationship - ✔✔Delegating style
Direct teaching - ✔✔And instructional method that allows the teacher to demonstrate or model the
material to students rather than allowing exploratory learning. Founded by SIEGFRIED ENGELMANN
Academic language - ✔✔Must be understood in order to improve test scores and academic
achievement with ELL students
Machine culture
OWENS& STEINHOFF - ✔✔Leader is so involved in managing the school and making sure it runs
efficiently that he does not put the best interests of the students first or make good decisions for the
students, teachers feel they are not connected
Little shop of horrors culture
, OWENS & STEINHOFF - ✔✔Set rules, no one can change them. Harsh, intimidating, not approachable,
not predictable, faculty and staff don't know what will happen, increased stress
Sheltered English - ✔✔Transition or bridge classes, allow ELL students to be held to the same
curriculum standards as their English speaking counterparts
Commander leader - ✔✔Can be derailed by becoming domineering or intimidating
Strategist leader - ✔✔Smart, analytical and process oriented
Visionary leader - ✔✔Motivational and charismatic but can come off as overconfident and unrealistic
Change agent - ✔✔Always looking for ways to do things better
Reliable test - ✔✔Test questions get the same results each time they are used. Questions are clear and
unambiguous
National assessment of education progress (NAEP) - ✔✔Provides assessments of student achievement
and various subjects. Run by the US DOE. Most comprehensive assessment of what American students
know and can do
Visionary leadership style
DANIEL GOLEMAN - ✔✔Moves people towards a shared vision, tells them where to go but not how to
get there, causes motivation to struggle forward, openly shares information. Best when a new direction
is needed, strong impact on climate. Negatives - can fail when trying to motivate more experienced
experts or peers
Cultural deficiency - ✔✔Students are viewed as disadvantaged and deprived, educators believe
students from low socio economic backgrounds lack proper role models for development
