Textbook : Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum and Development in Early By Carol Gestwicki.
Read Chapter 16 and answer the following questions:
1. What may be a root cause for some children's failures in school experiences?
2. Why do schools fail?
3. What is NCLB? What are the four (4) latest educational reforms to this bill?
4. Define Reading First and Early Reading First.
5. Explain the Race to the Top Fund.
6. List three (3) ways states may request flexibility through waivers of several specific provisions of NCLB.
7. What three (3) areas must be addressed for states to be granted flexibility?
8. What are Common Core State Standards?
9. Explain concrete operational thought. When does this transition occur?
10. Define binocular vision and school phobia.
11. List five (5) basic goals for primary age children.
12. Define dispositions and multiple intelligences.
13. List nine (9) various kinds of intelligence.
14. Define integrated curriculum.
15. List six (6) considerations for project work.
16. Explain joint planning and benefits of joint planning.
17. Explain collaboration in small groups.
18. Explain how teachers are facilitators.