Communication, problem solving, critical thinking, research, personal/social responsibility, and interpersonal skills across all disciplines and courses.

Everyday phrases used to describe solid, reputable, state-of-the-art work in a field. If a practitioner is following best practice, he/she is aware of current knowledge, technology, and procedures (Zemelman)

The teacher plans and carries out varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation of and response to student differences in readiness, interest, and learning needs (Tomlinson, 1995). A form of instruction that seeks to "maximize each student's growth by meeting each student where she is and helping the student to progre [..]

The NCLB classification for a district that has been "In Need of Improvement" for three or more years. Districts are classified "In Need of Improvement" when they have 40% or more of their schools "In Need of Improvement", or when they have schools from at least two levels "In Need of Improvement", or when sc [..]

Linguistically and culture diverse students who have been identified through reliable and valid assessments having levels of English language proficiency that preclude them from accessing, processing, and acquiring unmodified grade level continent in English, and thereby, qualifying for support services. (WIDA Consortium, 2004)

Requires students to use basic skills and knowledge to solve a problem and communicate the solution as well as to use reflective, research, and consulting skills (RISC)

Civil rights law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities by federally assisted programs or activities.

Cognitive domain in Bloom’s taxonomy categorizes learning into six major divisions. Each upper division subsumes the previous lower ones – knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Higher order are analyze (give motive, cause, conclude, infer, distinguish, deduce, detect), synthesize (solve, predict, draw, construc [..]