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Early Childhood Education Essentials

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1. Limit setting through body language (yours as a teacher)

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2. 4 months






3. Student who has a high probability of failing to acquire the minimum academic skills necessary for success in the adult world.






4. PDMS - Bayley - Gessell - Battalle






5. During the second stage - students will begin to use one-word utterances and short phrases to communicate socially - express a need - or reply to a question. We need to again provide these students with frequent opportunities in the classroom to inte






6. Providing efficient help to individual students - Efficient help: arrange seating and make 'what page' questions less frequent - Providing graphic reminders that the students can use rather than asking many questions to teacher - Limit 10-20 seconds

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7. Kicks ball - Climbs stairs one at a time






8. Beginning LiteracyStudents demonstrate little or no receptive or productive English skills. Beginning to understand a few concrete details during unmodified instruction. In the beginning stage - students may go through a silent period where they spea






9. The belief that one is capable of executing certain behaviors or reaching certain goals






10. Students make meaning in a variety of ways. According to Piaget's theory - children move from the preoperational to the concrete operational and then the formal operational stage during their school years. One students can make sense more easily thou






11. Comparison to a specific criteria rather than comparison to a 'normal' group






12. 6 months






13. Condition in which repeated attempts to control a behavior fail - resulting in belief that the situation is uncontrollable






14. When the environment stimulates many senses at once - it gives the child a certain perception of information






15. Babbles






16. Enactive learning is learning by doing and experiencing the consequences of your actions (self-regulation of behavior - goal directed behavior - self-monitoring).






17. 1896-1934; russian developmental psychologist who emphasized the role of the social environment on cognitive development and proposed the idea of zones of proximal development






18. U.S. legislation granting educational rights to people with cognitive - emotional - or physical disabilities from birth until age 21; initially passed in 1975 - it has been amended and reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004. IDEA operates under six b






19. Used broadly to include visible and audible forms of communication - whether facial expression - gesture - postural movements or vocalizations.






20. Wanted to look at teachers at the top as well as those at the bottom - found 4 characteristics that a teacher needs






21. Is when behavior or events are observed while something is happening.






22. Three twos in row... three passes in a row






23. Legislation in the United States that extends civil rights protection of persons with disabilities to private-sector employment - all public services - public accommodations - transportation - and telecommunication including physical accessibility an






24. The observer is not always present and someone else is telling you want they saw happened






25. Suggested intelligences is a triarchic - compromising analytical - creative - and practical intelligences.






26. An observation made in a person's daily routine and environment






27. Altering existing schemes or creating new ones in response to new information






28. This psychologist believed children are born with an innate cognitive ability that must be developed. He believed intelligence consists of interaction and coping with one's environment and proposed 4 levels. Sensorimotor - Preoperational - Concrete O






29. Using Say - See - Do - You say - they do something - they do more

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30. 6-7 cube tower - Circular scribbles






31. Casting -Puts block in cup






32. Disorders marked by impaired social cognition - social skills - and social interaction - presumably due to a brain abnormality; extreme forms often associated with significant cognitive and linguistic delays and highly unusual behaviors






33. Gross motor able to twist and turn and maintain posture - able to sit from standing position - may stand alone - at least momentarily






34. Conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response.a form of learning whereby a response increases in frequency as a result of its b






35. Promoted supportive and preventative discipline by recognizing the importance of classroom atmosphere (socially & emotionally). He suggested teachers use 'sane messages' in which they simply describe the issue or event of concern. This app approach a






36. Individuals behavioral style and characteristic way of emotionaly responding (temp+environment= personality)






37. Maintenance of Group Focus: making sure that all of your groups/students are engaged in and focused on learning






38. Social and language recognizes parents - holds out arms to be picked up - begins to imitate sounds - uses one-syllable sounds (ma - mu - da - di)






39. May be caused by/confused by differences in socioeconomic status (SES) - Some students have physical or mental health issues that lead to term in the classroom. Collaborating with families and colleagues who know the child's needs can help the teache






40. In result of a federal court decree - the San Francisco school system was integrated - and about 2 -800 Chinese students didn't speak English. About 1 -000 of these students received instruction on English - and the rest did not. Those who did not de






41. In assessment - data regarding the typical performance of various groups of students on a standardized test or other norm-referenced measure of a particular characteristic or ability.






42. Belief that intelligence can improve with effort and practice.






43. Vision/Fine motor : 6 weeks Fixes and follows






44. Early Advanced LiteracyStudents begin to combine the elements of English language in complex - cognitively demanding situations and are able to use English as a means of learning in content areas.






45. Professional developement - knowing the latest educational practices - attend meetings on students - open communications with all involved - modifying and accommodating learning practices






46. Stage 1: Introduce a concept by lecture - lesson - experience - book read-aloud - etc.Stage 2: Process the information and develop an understanding of the concept through work - experimentation - and creativity. Stage 3: 'Knowing -' which theorist de






47. Just what you see






48. Consistency or repeatability






49. A general term that describes a variety of strategies schools use to accommodate cultural differences in teaching and learning






50. An educational plan designed by a child study team (including a teacher) and agreed to by the student's parents or legal guardians describing what learning targets the child should attain - the time frame for attaining them - the proposed methods for