- 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
- An instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing.
- Montessori
- The Montessori philosophy is a holistic view of children that builds on natural curiosity and develops a love of learning by creating environments which foster the fulfillment of children’s highest potential.
- 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.
K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education
