TExES: Pedagogy & Professional Responsibilities (160) - Vocab/Terms Study Guide

TExES: Pedagogy & Professional Responsibilities (160) - Vocab/Terms Study Guide 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. Copyright ©EMILLYCHARLOTE 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 2/36 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 Copyright ©EMILLYCHARLOTE 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 3/36 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. Copyright ©EMILLYCHARLOTE 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 4/36 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. Copyright ©EMILLYCHARLOTE 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 5/36 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 knowledg