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Early Childhood Education Essentials

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1. Assessment during the course of instruction rather than after it is completed






2. Characteristic way in which a learner tends to think about a task and process new information; typically comes into play automatically rather than by choice.






3. Inductive: proceed from the particlar tot he general; deductive: general to the more specific






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






5. 2.5 years






6. Variability in abilities and characteristics (intelligence - personality - etc.) among students at a particular age and within any group.






7. 12 months






8. Standardized tests and research instruments used to identify developmental norms






9. Personal dictionaries - Identify key words in stories - Listening to oral reading - Oral story retelling - Predict/confirm events in a story - Labeling - Copying - Fill-in blanks - Drawing as a means of written expression






10. If children can discover pleasure in intellectual stimulation - being productive - seeking success - they will develop a sense of competence.


11. Gross motor hops on one foot - catches ball bounced to him or her two out of three times - able to demonstrate heel-toe walking - jumps rope






12. Language - culture - family and community values.






13. 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






14. Form of speech that has certain unique pronunciations - idioms - and grammatical structures and is characteristic of a particular region or ethnic group






15. When the behavior of the individuals in the same group is more similar - on average - than the behaviors of individuals from different groups.






16. Score on an intelligence test - determined by comparing a student's performance on the test with the performance of others in the same age group. For most tests - it is a standard score with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.






17. 10 months






18. If the adolescent solves this conflict successfullly - he will come out of this stage with a strong identity - and ready to plan for the future.






19. People who have common historical roots - values - beliefs - and behaviors and who share a sense of interdependence.






20. Gross motor begins to raise abdoment off table - sits but posture still shaky - may sit with legs apart; holds arms straight as propr between legs - supports almost full weight when pulled to standing position






21. They learn through an inner process to explore - experiment - and discover.






22. Average behavior of the members of a group. It is important to remember that individuals within a group will also be somewhat different from one another.






23. 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






24. Critical Thinking - Creative Thinking - Questioning - Inductive and Deductive Reasoning - Problem Solving - Planning - Memory - Recall






25. Movement management: having unused time - Transitions; any times you have movement or change...it is a great opportunity to misbehave - Warn your students ahead of time






26. A context within which a students more basic needs (such as sleep - safety - and love) are met and the student is cognitively ready for developmentally appropriate problem-solving and learning.






27. Crawls - Sits steadily and pivots






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






29. Adult individuals can form close relationships and share with others if they have achieved a sense of identity.






30. Inquiry - Case Studies - Concept Mapping - Reading for Meaning - Cloze Procedures






31. Ongoing process of arranging information and experience into mental systems or categories






32. Education - reducing risk behaviors - HIV screening - preventing mother-to-child transmission -preparedness - Research-CDC - medical professional - Internet search - Family and medical contact - respect for child - clean classroom and awareness of we






33. Joints 2-3 words - Knows 5-6 body parts






34. Overall psychological atmosphere of the classroom.






35. According to Erikson - if an elementary school child fails to succeed in learning new skills and knowledge - the result may be the development of a sense of ______________.






36. Clinical observation - interview - history - assessment tools






37. School is the important even at this stage. Children learn to ake things - use tools - and acquire the skills to be a worker and a potential provider. And they do all these while making the transition from the world of home into the world of peers.


38. Communities must hire schoolmaster if there were more than 50 families in the area






39. Ability to imagine and mentally manipulate two-and three-dimensional figures.






40. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a






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






42. Theory:'Social (or Observational) Learning Theory'. Bandura found that children learn by observing others. In a classroom setting - This may occur through modeling or learning vicariously through others' experiences.






43. A concept that refers to a match of the child's temperament and the demands of the environment






44. Successful teachers communicate with the school nurse - families - school mental health professionals - teacher assistants - and the student to understand how the student's term can be supported so that the child can learn at an optimal level. Term c






45. 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






46. Age; cognitive development; language - culture - family - community values - individual experiences - talents - motivations and prior learning.


47. 1. Setting 2. Mode of presentation (read aloud - paraphrasing - providing feedback) 3. Response mode and timing ( oral response - dictate to scribe - multiple sessions - extended time)






48. Harvard researcher that has identified at least eight types of intelligences: linguistic - logical/mathematical - bodily/kinesthetic - musical - spatial (visual) - interpersonal (the ability to understand others) - intrapersonal (the ability to under






49. A disorder of the brain.






50. A relationship between countries in which they rely on one another for resources - goods - or services