K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
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- magnet school
- Public school of choice that emphasizes a special curricular program designed to attract students from outside an attendance zone in order to enhance desegregation efforts and diversify student populations.
- manipulative
- Any physical object used in the classroom to model a problem or study a concept. A manipulative capitalizes on a student's sensory exploration of concepts.
- metacognition
- The process of thinking about thinking. Students assess their current and previous knowledge, identify gaps, and develop a plan to augment current knowledge and a system for assessing learning.
- mini-lessons
- Short lessons of five to twenty minutes used to introduce or reinforce critical information or learning strategies.
- mnemonic
- A technique used to help remember or memorize names or concepts. Mnemonics take a variety of forms, including acronyms, sentences, rhymes or songs.
- modeling
- Demonstration of how to do a task so that the learner can copy the model. Modeling can involve thinking aloud or talking about how to work through a task.
- Montessori
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- Montessori method
- Educational system based on the idea that children will develop to their full mental, emotional, and physical potential when given the opportunity to learn and work at their own paces in the ways that best suit them.
- multicultural education
- Education philosophy and curriculum that expands traditional white Western European curricula, highlighting themes and subjects from diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and gender perspectives. An important focus of multicultural education is to create equal educational opportunities so that all students can succeed in an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society.
- multiple intelligences
- Theory developed in 1983 by Dr. Howard Gardner proposing that traditional ideas of intelligence, largely based on IQ testing, are too limiting. Gardner proposed a range of different intelligences: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
