TAL 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Newark Public Schools, Bilingual Education, Intelligence Quotient

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Teaching and Learning
• Course: TAL 101
• Professor: Ana Menda

Document Summary

Meritocracy-, power by ability, aim is that your advancement is based solely on ability. Iq testing/intelligence/cognition-: tests are biased, tests focus on only some types of intelligence, like math, reading, & writing, don"t show things like the arts, tests geared more towards upper class white people, use their language/culture. Implicit bias-: attitudes that aren"t specifically stated or acknowledged, you don"t "mean" to have it, it happens unconsciously, the underlying stereotypes people have that they may not even know/be aware of, explicit biases people know. Led to a lot more testing in schools, less focus on arts: narrow look at education, focused so much on reading & math, the prize shows failure of newark public schools, change must involve. Leads to school being very boring, doesn"t care what kids perform well at the community: community based reform will always work better, freire/conscientizacao-, freire noted problems in education. In pedagogy of the oppressed, noted how oppressed people need to have.