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Early Childhood Education Essentials

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1. Level 3 - Postconventional Moral Reasoning - social contract and universal ethics Moral reasoning - the thinking process involved in judgments about questions of right and wrong Level I - Preconventional Moral Reasoning - judgment is based own perso






2. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be anything that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner - Private talk






3. A consequence that brings about the increase of a behavior through the removal (rather than presentation) of a stimulus.






4. 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






5. In Vygotsky's theory - the range between children's present level of knowledge and their potential knowledge state if they recieve proper guidance and instruction






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






7. Generating Applicable Topics - Planning Instruction for each Discipline - Designing Integrative Assessment






8. 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






9. One's knowledge and beliefs about one's own cognitive processes - and one's resulting attempts to regulate those cognitive processes to maximize learning and memory - Knowledge about our own thinking processes






10. Fine and gross motor behavior






11. Scissor use - shapes : Circle (3) - Cross (4) - Square (5) - Triangle (6) - Diamond (7)






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


13. 9 months






14. Waves - Plays pat-a-cake and indicates wants






15. The idea that two control systems- inner & outer controls- work against our tendencies to deviate any consequence that increases the future likelihood of a behavior






16. Kicks ball - Climbs stairs one at a time






17. Behaviors and belief systems that members of a long-standing social group share and pass along to successive generations.






18. 1. Use of Language and Dialect 2. Talking and remaining silent 3. Asking and responding to questioning 4. Taking turns in a conversation 5. A focus on cooperation or competition






19. Selecting a Theme - Designing integrated Learning Activities - Selecting Resources - Designing Assessments






20. 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






21. A disorder of childhood and adolescence characterized by excessive anger - spite - and stubbornness






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






23. Earliest level of moral development - in which self-interest determines What is moral






24. Does it measure what it reports to measure






25. Process of drawing a logical inference about something that must be true - given other information that has already been presented as true.






26. English as a second language






27. 4 mos fine motor grasps rattle - plays with hands together - inspects hands - carries objects to mouth.






28. 1-2 words (not dada / mama)






29. Helped to establish a way to fund public education






30. 3 months






31. Class management centers on the strength of effective lesson planning. the teacher opens a lesson with an 'anticipatory set' to help students connect new content to be learned. then the teacher provides opportunity for individual and extended practic






32. Old age is a time for reflecting upon one's own life and its role in the big scheme of things and seeing it filled with pleasure and satisfaction or disappointments and failures.






33. Urie Bronfenbrenner's theory which shows the relationship between the child and their surroundings/environment. Macro - Exo - Meso - and Microsystem.






34. Practice of individualizing instructional methods - and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals - to align with each student's existing knowledge - skills - and needs.






35. A means used to learn and remember knowledge






36. Reinforcing a response every time it occurs






37. A general belief that one is incapable of accomplishing tasks and has little or no control of the environment






38. The order in which content is delivered to learners over time.






39. Social language responds to word no - dislikes diaper changes - makes consonant sounds t - d - w - uses two syllables such as da-da - but does not asribe meaning to them






40. Admit when they don't know something - have caring attitude - willingness to collaborate - critically analyze themselves - teacher/student viewing in reflective lens - demonstrate rational - careful thought to improve practices - be aware of own cult






41. In adolesence) individual must demonstrate a pattern of behavior in which other people's rights are violated - norms are ignored or rules are broken. Aggression to people & animals - destruction of property deceitfulness or theft - serious violation






42. People -especially those who live in poverty - are at risk of academic difficulties and behavior problems. Children of Lower SES are frequently faced with: (list a few) Poor nutrition - exposure to toxins - inadequate and often unstable housing - and






43. The communication of feeling to others through facial expressions - gestures - and vocalizations






44. Gross motor : 6 weeks Head level in ventral suspension






45. Refers to the interactions of the infant or chil with other persons as well as the ability to organize stimuli - to perceive relationships between objects - to dissect a whole into its component parts - to reintegrate these parts in a meaningful fash






46. Laughs






47. 1987 - Positive Class Discipline - Emphasis on the teacher's nonverbal communication - Emphasis on classroom organization - 'Say - See - Do Teaching'






48. Theory:'Stages of the Ethic of Care' Gilligan's work questions the male-centered personality psychology of Freud and Erikson - as well as Kohlberg's malecentered stages of moral development. She proposed the stage theory of the moral development of w






49. One with which any tactile activity can cause discomfort and even pain. Some children are particularly sensitive to touch and this is usually discovered early on - when - as an infant - he will not like being touched or held.






50. No head lag - Sit with support - on Forearms