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Early Childhood Education Essentials

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1. Schemata (plural for schema) - In contemporary cognitive psychology - an organized body of knowledge about a specific topic - Basic structures for organizing information - concepts






2. Vygotsky's theory - in which children acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that make up a community's culture through cooperative dialogues with more knowledgeable members of society.emphasizes role in development of cooperative dialogues betwee






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


4. Emotional development having to do with anger management - feelings - relationships - and personality development






5. The acquisition of a second language while retaining the knowledge of the native language.






6. Very advantageous in childhood -post. consequences for cognitive development and certain aspects of language awareness -US dual language programs support minorities academic learning






7. The collective 'way of life' characteristic of a school; a set of beliefs values - traditions - and ways of thinking and behaving that distinguishes one school from another.






8. Children have newfound power at this stage as they have developed motor skills and become more and more engaged in social interaction with people around them. They now must learn to achieve a balance between eagerness for more adventure and more resp


9. 18 months






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






11. Day 1 gametes fuse to form one cell with 46 chromosomes - days 3-4 egg travels down fallopian tube to the uterus - days 5-9 egg implanted in the wall of the uterus; starts to get outside nourishment and gets bigger - days 10-14 embryo starts producin






12. Student who is different enough from peers that he or she requires specially adapted instructional materials and practices.






13. Belief that intelligence is a 'thing' that is relatively permanent and unchangeable.






14. Prefer to see the information and read material. They learn most effectively with graphs - illustrations - diagrams - timelines - photos - pie charts - and visual design.






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






16. Idea that people act more 'intelligently' when they have physical - symbolic - or social assistance.






17. 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






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






19. His theory states there are 3 levels of moral reasoning and each level can be divided - into 2 stages. 1. Pre-conventional - 2. conventional - 3.post-conventional. His theory focuses on moral - reasoning rather than overt behaviour.






20. Help team determine diagnosis -identify atypical development -obtain baseline information -determine eligibility for service -norm-referenced or formal -done once or infrequently






21. Finger feeds - works for toy






22. 3.5 years






23. Prognosis/diagnosis - eligibility for certain programs - evaluation of outcomes - treatment planning






24. Promotion of democratic prinicples - teaching of common values - and educating a diverse culture of global society






25. Gross motor stis securely wo support - bears weight on legs when supported - may stand holding on






26. View of intelligence; proponents argue that that intelligent behavior arises from a balance between analytical - creative - and practical abilities.






27. Hearing -Speech and language : 6 weeks Still to sound






28. Birth -71 months -evaluation - gross motor and fine motor -norm -45-60 min -$440






29. Joint communication and decision making among educational professionals to create an optimal learning environment for students and especially for students with disabilities. A philosophy about how to relate to others—how to learn and work.






30. Increased motor skill; desire to master physical challenges; repetition to acquire physical skills - as well as gross and fine motor skills; rough and tumble play; rehearsing specific skills to be used in games or sports; and experimenting with new m






31. 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.






32. A disorder of the brain.






33. Learn....






34. (1908-1970) humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs - with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need. Humans have a hierarchy of needs ranging from lower-level needs for survival and safety to higher-level needs for in






35. One's ability to process info from different sources - including hearing speech against background noise - sound discriminations - and sound recognition






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






37. Intellectual giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average.






38. If not - they will develop a sense of inferiority.


39. Expressed as deviations or variations from the mean score for a group - expressed in units of standard deviation






40. An explicit understanding of how learning works and an awareness of yourself as a learner.






41. 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






42. Over-lapping activities: not everybody has to be doing the same thing - Managing different things at the same time






43. A conceptual framework a person uses to make sense of the world






44. Fine motor beginning thumbfinger grasping - releases object at will - grasps for toys out of reach






45. The internal desire to perform a particular task; motivation associated with activities that are their own reward






46. 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






47. Development of processes of knowing - including imagining - perceiving - reasoning - and problem solving






48. GMFM - HELP






49. Process of observing a sample of a student's behavior and drawing inferences about the student's knowledge and abilities.






50. Individual experiences - Individual talents - Prior learning - Language - Culture - Family - Community Values