Contemporary Philosophies of Education

_____ maintain that classrooms should be oriented toward the teacher, who should serve as an intellectual and moral role model for the students. 

• Essentialist

• Perennialist

• Progressivist

• Existentialist

Teacher centered classroom; test scores are relied on to evaluate progress. 

• Perennialist
• Essentialist
• Progressivist
• Existentialist

Kelly's lessons are intellectually informing and emotionally stirs the class about inequities that surround them, interest and abilities, this is typical in a _____ school.

• Perennialist

• Social Reconstructionism

• Progressivist

• Existentialist

Teachers role would be as facilitator: assisting students to focus their questions, develop strategy, help organize visit while collecting data on social problems.

• Progressivism

• Essentialism

• Social Reconstructionism

• Existentialism

Student centered classroom; limited minds or poor could acquire skills to regain control of their lives and influence the social and economic forces that licked them in poverty.

• Progressivism
• Essentialism
• Social Reconstructionism
• Existentialism

Student centered classroom; subject matter takes second place to helping students determine and appreciate themselves as unique individuals.

• Existentialist
• Social Reconstructionist
• Perennialist
• Essentialist

Kelly's lessons are self-paced, self-directed and includes a great deal individual contact with the teacher, this is typical in a _____ school.

• Existentialist

• Social Reconstructionist

• Perennialist

• Essentialist

Students plan a field trip to learn about history, geography, and natural science. This is an example of 

• Progressivism
• Existentialism
• Essentialism
• Perennialism

Teacher focuses on essential information or the development of a particular skill. This is an example of 

• Progressivism
• Existentialism
• Essentialism
• Social Reconstructionism

Asserts that knowledge can not be handed from the teacher to the student but must be constructed by each learner through a constant flow of information.

• Constructivism

• Behaviorism

• Scaffolding

• Psychology