Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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Civic learning (civic education)

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Courses that acquaint a racially and culturally diverse student population with the heritage common to the American democratic tradition.

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Common Core State Standards

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Standards defining the knowledge and skills students should have within their K–12 education careers to succeed in entry-level, credit-bearing academic college courses and workforce training programs.

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Content standards

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Statements of the subject-specific knowledge and skills that schools are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.

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Cooperative learning

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Students working in small groups or teams to help one another learn academic material.

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Core curriculum

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Course of study every student would be required to take.

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Critical thinking

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Helping students evaluate the worth of ideas, opinions, or evidence before making a decision or judgment.

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Cultural literacy (core knowledge)

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Awareness of the central ideas, stories, scientific knowledge, events, and personalities of a culture.

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Curriculum

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All organized and intended experiences of the student for which the school accepts responsibility.

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Differentiated instruction

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A response to student variance rather than adopting a standardized approach to teaching that assumes all learners in a class are essentially alike.

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Flipped classroom

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A model of teaching in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed.