Educ 100-vocab test 1

PDP

An assessment tool used to evaluate a student’s personal and professional skills in an academic and classroom setting.

Dispositions

the professional attitude, values and beliefs demonstrated through verbal and non-verbal behaviors are as pre-service teachers interact with students, families, colleagues, communities, and professors.

rubric

a scoring tool that explicitly represents the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work or professional dispositions. This divides the assigned work or skills into component parts and provides clear descriptions of characteristics of the work associated with each component, at varying levels of mastery.

rapport

The ability to maintain harmonious relationships based on affinity.  It is more commonly thought of as what happens when two people “click”—they connect, interact well, and respond to each other favorably.

brown v board of education of topeka, ks (1954)

The United States Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools (by race) are inherently unequal.

IDEA

(1975, 1990, 1997, 2004, 2017)

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act – the law that makes free, appropriate public education available to students with disabilities across the United States and ensures special education and related services to those children.

Plyer v. Doe (1982)

The United States Supreme court struck down a Texas law that denied school funding to schools who provided an education to undocumented children (not citizens). The Court stated that states cannot deny a child an education based on their immigration status.

Tinker V. Des Moines (1969)

The United States Supreme court ruled that, “neither teachers nor students shed their constitutional rights to freedom of expression at the school house gate.”