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Professional Issues in Teaching
Maymester Quiz 1
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Education
Undergraduate 4
05/19/2011

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A school curriculum should include a common body of information
that all students should know.
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Essentialism
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The school curriculum should focus on the great ideas that have survived through time.
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Perennialism
Term
The gap between the real world and schools should be bridged through
field trips, internships, and adult mentors.
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Progressivism
Term
Schools should prepare students for analyzing and solving the social
problems they will face beyond the classroom.
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Social Reconstructionism
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Each student should determine his or her individual curriculum, and
teachers should guide and help them.
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Exisentialism
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Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next until
they have read and mastered certain key material.
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Essentialism
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Schools, above all, should develop students’ abilities to think deeply,
analytically, and creatively, rather than focus on transient concerns
like social skills and current trends.
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Perennialism
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Whether inside or outside the classroom, teachers must stress the
relevance of what students are learning to real and current events.
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Progressivism
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Education should enable students to recognize injustices in society,
and schools should promote projects to redress social inequities.
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Social Reconstructionism
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Students who do not want to study much should not be required to
do so.
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Exisentialism
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Teachers and schools should emphasize academic rigor, discipline,
hard work, and respect for authority.
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Essentialism
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Education is not primarily about workers and the world economic
competition; learning should be appreciated for its own sake, and
students should enjoy reading, learning, and discussing intriguing ideas.
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Perennialism
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The school curriculum should be designed by teachers to respond to
the experiences and needs of the students.
Definition
Progressivism
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Schools should promote positive group relationships by teaching
about different ethnic and racial groups.
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Social Reconstructionism
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The purpose of school is to help students understand themselves,
appreciate their distinctive talents and insights, and find their own
unique place in the world.
Definition
Exisentialism
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For the United States to be competitive economically in the world
marketplace, schools must bolster their academic requirements in
order to train more competent workers.
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Essentialism
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Teachers ought to teach from the classics, because important insights
related to many of today’s challenges and concerns are found in these
Great Books.
Definition
Perennialism
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Since students learn effectively through social interaction, schools
should plan for substantial social interaction in their curricula.
Definition
Progressivism
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Students should be taught how to be politically literate, and learn
how to improve the quality of life for all people.
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Social Reconstructionism
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The central role of the school is to provide students with options and
choices. The student must decide what and how to learn.
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Exisentialism
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Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of basic facts regarding
the books, people, and events that have shaped the nation’s heritage.
Definition
Essentialism
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The teacher’s main goal is to help students unlock the insights learned
over time, so they can gain wisdom from the great thinkers of the past.
Definition
Perennialism
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Students should be active participants in the learning process,
involved in democratic class decision making and reflective thinking.
Definition
Progressivism
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Teaching should mean more than simply transmitting the Great Books,
which are replete with biases and prejudices. Rather, schools need to
identify a new list of Great Books more appropriate for today’s world,
and prepare students to create a better society than their ancestors did.
Definition
Social Reconstructionism
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Effective teachers help students to discover and develop their personal
values, even when those values conflict with traditional ones.
Definition
Exisentialism
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