FELE Study Guide Questions- A Correct
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TORTS
A tort is an intentional or negligent civil wrong. Torts are different from crimes.
Duty
Schools have a duty to protect students. There is no duty if the injury was not foreseeable. Teachers
have duty to care for children in school.
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPAFederal law that protects the privacy of students‟
educational records. This law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of
the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children‟s
education records. These rights transfer to the student when he/she reaches the age of 18 or attends
a school beyond the high school level.
FTE
Full-time equivalent. A student can be counted as 1.0 FTE for 900 hours of instruction during the
school year (180 days X 5 hr/day)When referring to FTE, the state is referring to "headcount".
Property taxes
Most common local source of funds
Sales Tax
Primary source for funding public education.
Basic Student Allocation
the value that state allocates for FTE, student x program factor. Each district receives a predetermined
amount of money each year.
District cost differential
makes sure that money is available for districts with a higher cost of living. Makes things fair for all
districts.
Program cost factors
PCF are the same across each district. The is the value placed on teaching ESOL, ESE, EBD, vocational.
EBD students get more money. set annually
School Internal Funds
accounts for all transactions (cash, checks) going through the school.
Transformational Leadership
Helping staff develop and maintain a collaborative, progressive school culture:
This means staff members often talk, observe, critique, and plan together.
, vertical planning
planning from one grade to another in a subject. Future learning
horizontal planning
teaching in a cross curriculum approach. Using different means to teach the curriculum.
Norm-Referenced (NRT)
classic approach to assessment in which a student‟s performance is compared to the performance of
other students who took the test.
Criterion-Referenced
type of test that compares the performance of the student to criteria that were established in the
instructional objective. Performance is directly related to educational objective.
Victor Vroom
Motivate behavior increases when there is positive relationship between effort and performance
Hygiene Theory
Fredercik Herzberg, unhappy employees were concerned about working conditions.
McClelland's Needs Theory
Need for achievement, power, affilitaing. Accomplish goals, influence others, close relationships.
Needs assessment
process of gathering information on a problem and possible solution.
Needs assessment order
Collect data, organize data, report to stakeholders.
First step in instruction
diagnosis
Aptitude Test
Measuring the cognitive abilities
ORC
Organizational Resistance to Change, change is natural and people will fight the change until
Holistic Teaching
Teaching a subject without breaking it down.
Scaffolding Teaching
Teaching a lesson step by step until students can perform on their own.
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TORTS
A tort is an intentional or negligent civil wrong. Torts are different from crimes.
Duty
Schools have a duty to protect students. There is no duty if the injury was not foreseeable. Teachers
have duty to care for children in school.
FERPA
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPAFederal law that protects the privacy of students‟
educational records. This law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of
the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children‟s
education records. These rights transfer to the student when he/she reaches the age of 18 or attends
a school beyond the high school level.
FTE
Full-time equivalent. A student can be counted as 1.0 FTE for 900 hours of instruction during the
school year (180 days X 5 hr/day)When referring to FTE, the state is referring to "headcount".
Property taxes
Most common local source of funds
Sales Tax
Primary source for funding public education.
Basic Student Allocation
the value that state allocates for FTE, student x program factor. Each district receives a predetermined
amount of money each year.
District cost differential
makes sure that money is available for districts with a higher cost of living. Makes things fair for all
districts.
Program cost factors
PCF are the same across each district. The is the value placed on teaching ESOL, ESE, EBD, vocational.
EBD students get more money. set annually
School Internal Funds
accounts for all transactions (cash, checks) going through the school.
Transformational Leadership
Helping staff develop and maintain a collaborative, progressive school culture:
This means staff members often talk, observe, critique, and plan together.
, vertical planning
planning from one grade to another in a subject. Future learning
horizontal planning
teaching in a cross curriculum approach. Using different means to teach the curriculum.
Norm-Referenced (NRT)
classic approach to assessment in which a student‟s performance is compared to the performance of
other students who took the test.
Criterion-Referenced
type of test that compares the performance of the student to criteria that were established in the
instructional objective. Performance is directly related to educational objective.
Victor Vroom
Motivate behavior increases when there is positive relationship between effort and performance
Hygiene Theory
Fredercik Herzberg, unhappy employees were concerned about working conditions.
McClelland's Needs Theory
Need for achievement, power, affilitaing. Accomplish goals, influence others, close relationships.
Needs assessment
process of gathering information on a problem and possible solution.
Needs assessment order
Collect data, organize data, report to stakeholders.
First step in instruction
diagnosis
Aptitude Test
Measuring the cognitive abilities
ORC
Organizational Resistance to Change, change is natural and people will fight the change until
Holistic Teaching
Teaching a subject without breaking it down.
Scaffolding Teaching
Teaching a lesson step by step until students can perform on their own.
