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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
Freedom of information act (1966)
Act to help the public with informed decision-making by providing it with sufficient information
Superstar teacher
AL BURR
Students remember them and consider them as their best teacher while in school, parents will ask if
their child can be in their class, well respected by their peers considered to be hard to replace by
principles
Conceptual expository learning model
AUSUBEL
What student already knows is the primary determiner of what he or she learns next, viewed learning
as an active process. We learn by bringing something new into our cognitive structure and attaching it
to our existing knowledge
Delineator approach
GREGORC
Model that uses perceptual and thinking/processing modes to determine four preferred learning
styles
Brain-based model
BROOKS
Based on structure/function of the brain, learning will occur if brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its
normal processes.
Cognitive constructivist instruction model
PIAGET
Students build knowledge through experiences, experiences enable them to create mental models in
their heads. What children can understand at different ages and a theory of development that
describes how children develop cognitive abilities
Aspirational
A strong desire to achieve something high or great
Benchmarking
The process of comparing ones ethics climate to that of a previously established best practices climate
update
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
Freedom of information act (1966)
Act to help the public with informed decision-making by providing it with sufficient information
Superstar teacher
AL BURR
Students remember them and consider them as their best teacher while in school, parents will ask if
their child can be in their class, well respected by their peers considered to be hard to replace by
principles
Conceptual expository learning model
AUSUBEL
What student already knows is the primary determiner of what he or she learns next, viewed learning
as an active process. We learn by bringing something new into our cognitive structure and attaching it
to our existing knowledge
Delineator approach
GREGORC
Model that uses perceptual and thinking/processing modes to determine four preferred learning
styles
Brain-based model
BROOKS
Based on structure/function of the brain, learning will occur if brain is not prohibited from fulfilling its
normal processes.
Cognitive constructivist instruction model
PIAGET
Students build knowledge through experiences, experiences enable them to create mental models in
their heads. What children can understand at different ages and a theory of development that
describes how children develop cognitive abilities
Aspirational
A strong desire to achieve something high or great
Benchmarking
The process of comparing ones ethics climate to that of a previously established best practices climate
