EDT 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Early Childhood Education, Montessori Education, Comprehensive High School
1 Apr 2016
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Social institutions: organizations with established structures and rules designed to promote certain goals. Academic: help students acquire knowledge and skills essential for functioning society. Social and civic: schools guide people to become productive members of society. Vocational: schools prepare students for world of work. Personal: schools help students to develop as healthy, happy individuals. Both students and parents believe the goal is important. Goals compete and conflict with each other. Relative emphasis placed on each goal varies from grade levels. Administrators: people responsible for day to day operations of school. Principal: ultimate administrative responsibility for schools" operation. Curriculum: everything that teachers must teach and students must learn. Development: refers to physical changes in children as well as changes in the way they think and relate to their peers that result from experience and maturation. Looping: practice of keeping a teacher with one group of students for more than a year. Early childhood education: educational programs for young children.
