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| Professional developments |
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| Educational opportunities for school teachers and administrative personnel with goals of personal and professional growth and school improvement |
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| Forced withdrawal from school. |
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| Restriction or denial of right, privileges, and choice because of race. |
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| A teaching-related position within a school that is usually reponsible for specialized or conceentrated assistance for students in elementary and secondary schools. |
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| The educational Amendment of 1972 that bans sex descrimination in schools recieving federal funds, whether it is in academics or athletics. |
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| The sudy of the relationship between letters and their corresponding sounds. |
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| An interdisciplinary, cross-curricular education that contributes to the preparation for students to live and work in a diverse environment. |
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| Initiative based on the belief that the ethical, social, and emotional development of children is as important as their academic achevement |
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| A supreme court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation under the "separate but equal " doctrine. |
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| The sudy of being a teacher or the process of teaching. |
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| Standards-Based Education |
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| Teaching based on a set of local or state department developed objectives for a particular subject in a particular grade level. |
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| Separating pupils by academic ability into groups for all subjects or certin classes. |
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| Provides acedemic curriculum and ecourages students to "use the city as a classroom" |
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| The initial grade level of elementary school; focuses on child development and basic skills. |
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| Provision of compulsory education in the home as an alternative to traditional schooling. |
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| A teaching strategy where the teacher provides invividualized support to facilitate the students' development. |
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| The cassification of learning objectives within education. Proposed in 1956. |
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| A term used to describe a student who is limited in english proficiency and who has not mastered English in the four domains: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. |
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| School to Work Opportunities |
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| A Government act intended to broaden opportunities for all students by creating partnerships between schools and businesses, community organizations, and government agencies |
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| A federally mandated right of all students to have equal access to classes, facilities, and educational programs no matter their national origin, race, gender, disabilities,ect. |
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| The right not to be fired without cause after an initial probationary period. Status granted to a teacher after a trail period that gives protection from summary dissmissal. |
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| A federal law that upholds the right of disabled children to a free and appropriate education in the United States. |
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| Performance-related pay, most frequently in the context of educational reform. It would provide bonuses for teachers whose students perform better. |
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| An assesment process undertaken by administrators too make well-founded decisions on planning, designing, and implementing various projects and programs. |
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| A private school with offical Catholic affiliation. |
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| Severe mistreatment of a child by a parent, guardian, or other adult responsible for his or her welfare. |
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| Brown vs. Board of Education |
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| A U.S. Supreme court case in which the court ruled that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th admendment to the U.S. Constitution. The court declared that separate educational facilities to be inherently unequal. |
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| The measure by which schools, district, and states are held accountable for student performance under Title 1 of the No Child Left Behind Act. |
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| When an individual is facing a deprivation of life, liberty, or property, procedural due process mandates that he or she is entitled to adequate notice, a hearing, and a neural judge. |
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| An assessment where the scores may be compared to the scores of certain groups such us students in the same grade level. |
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| An education-funding program that provides funding for high poverty schools to help students that are falling behind or at risk. |
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| An instructional method where students work in groups to find solutions to real world problems. |
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| a program that helps children from low income families prepare for school before they enroll. |
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| Where students take courses with an instuctor through a computer network. Courses are taken at home with the material provided through mail, email, ect. |
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| Name of the FEA Georgia podcast series |
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| State Director of FEA Georgia |
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| National Education Associaton,Pearson Foundation,American Federation of Teachers |
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| Partnerships with FEA Georgia |
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| PAGE(Professional Association of Georgia Education) and PDK(Phi Delta Kappa) |
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| to foster the recruitment and development of prospective educators worldwide through the dissmination of innovative programming and relevant research. |
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| By elevating the image of teaching, FEA will attract dynamic and diverse students who will become tommorows great educators. |
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| A classroom is waiting... |
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