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EOPA Teaching pathway study guide Questions
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Lemon vs. Kurtzman - ✔✔The "lemon test" determines what materials, services, and financial assistance
public school systems can provide to religious-based institutions.
Goss vs. Lopez - ✔✔Suspended students have the right to Due Process which requires, in connection
with a suspension of ten or less days, that the student be given oral or written notice of the charges
against him and, if he denies them, an explanation of the evidence the authorities have an opportunity to
present his version. Generally, notice and hearing should precede the students removal from school, since
the hearing may almost immediately follow the misconduct, but if prior notice and hearing are not
feasible, as where the students presence endangers persons or property or threatens disruption of the
academic process, thus justifying immediate removal from school, the necessary notice and hearing
should follow as soon as practicable.
Pickering vs. BOE - ✔✔Teachers have the right of free speech and cannot be fired for voicing their
criticism of the school or the school system.
Brown vs. BOE - ✔✔Desegregation of schools.
loco parentis - ✔✔allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the
students as they see fit,although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students civil
liberties.
title IX - ✔✔Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender (or sex).
IDEA - ✔✔No segregation of students with disabilities.
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Individuals with disabilities education act - ✔✔What does IDEA stand for?
First amendment right to freedom of speech - ✔✔Students may exercise their freedom of speech;
however, educators may still practice editorial control over the style and content of school-sponsored
publications and events if they feel like it will have some negative effect on the learning process.
AFT - ✔✔American Federation of Teachers (union).
National Education Association - ✔✔organization that supported desegregation.
State, local, federal - ✔✔funding order
State - ✔✔largest funding componant
diagnostic assessment - ✔✔used to determine if a student has any type of learning disability
Formative assessment - ✔✔done on an ongoing basis t determine if changes should be made in
instructional strategy.
summative assessment - ✔✔Occurs at the end of instruction and allows us to determine if our overall
student learning outcomes have been achieved.
Objective asessment - ✔✔definite right or wrong answers (multiple choice, true/false).
subjective assessment - ✔✔many ways to provide correct answers (essays and projects).
Quantitative - ✔✔evidence of a student learning is represented numerically (grades).
qualititative - ✔✔evidence of student learning includes narratives or other non-numerical information
(opinions, surveys).
democratic classroom - ✔✔involving students, on a regular basis and in developmentally appropriate
ways, in shared decision making to increase their responsibility for helping to make the classroom a good
place to be and learn.
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EOPA Teaching pathway study guide Questions
and Answers 100% Pass
Lemon vs. Kurtzman - ✔✔The "lemon test" determines what materials, services, and financial assistance
public school systems can provide to religious-based institutions.
Goss vs. Lopez - ✔✔Suspended students have the right to Due Process which requires, in connection
with a suspension of ten or less days, that the student be given oral or written notice of the charges
against him and, if he denies them, an explanation of the evidence the authorities have an opportunity to
present his version. Generally, notice and hearing should precede the students removal from school, since
the hearing may almost immediately follow the misconduct, but if prior notice and hearing are not
feasible, as where the students presence endangers persons or property or threatens disruption of the
academic process, thus justifying immediate removal from school, the necessary notice and hearing
should follow as soon as practicable.
Pickering vs. BOE - ✔✔Teachers have the right of free speech and cannot be fired for voicing their
criticism of the school or the school system.
Brown vs. BOE - ✔✔Desegregation of schools.
loco parentis - ✔✔allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the
students as they see fit,although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students civil
liberties.
title IX - ✔✔Prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender (or sex).
IDEA - ✔✔No segregation of students with disabilities.
Created by Katelyn Whitman © 2025, All Rights Reserved. 100% PASS GUARANTEE
, 2|Page
Individuals with disabilities education act - ✔✔What does IDEA stand for?
First amendment right to freedom of speech - ✔✔Students may exercise their freedom of speech;
however, educators may still practice editorial control over the style and content of school-sponsored
publications and events if they feel like it will have some negative effect on the learning process.
AFT - ✔✔American Federation of Teachers (union).
National Education Association - ✔✔organization that supported desegregation.
State, local, federal - ✔✔funding order
State - ✔✔largest funding componant
diagnostic assessment - ✔✔used to determine if a student has any type of learning disability
Formative assessment - ✔✔done on an ongoing basis t determine if changes should be made in
instructional strategy.
summative assessment - ✔✔Occurs at the end of instruction and allows us to determine if our overall
student learning outcomes have been achieved.
Objective asessment - ✔✔definite right or wrong answers (multiple choice, true/false).
subjective assessment - ✔✔many ways to provide correct answers (essays and projects).
Quantitative - ✔✔evidence of a student learning is represented numerically (grades).
qualititative - ✔✔evidence of student learning includes narratives or other non-numerical information
(opinions, surveys).
democratic classroom - ✔✔involving students, on a regular basis and in developmentally appropriate
ways, in shared decision making to increase their responsibility for helping to make the classroom a good
place to be and learn.
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