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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.






2. The tendency for items that appear at the end of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






3. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.






4. Achievement






5. Behavior associated with one sex as opposed to the other.






6. Methods for aiding the memory.






7. Derived score that designates what percent of the norming group earned raw scores lower than a particular score.






8. The period of life from 2 to 7 years old when - Piaget believed - children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols (gestures - words - numbers) to represent real objects in their environment.






9. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






10. Ability to make rational decisions about what to do or what to believe.






11. One of three types of knowledge as described by Piaget; knowing the attributes of objects such as their number - color - size - and shape; knowledge is acquired by acting on objects - experimenting - and observing reactions.






12. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






13. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.






14. 1983 National Commission on Excellence in education report; called for greater federal support of education because the nation was threatened by "a rising tide of mediocrity: - calls for educational reform based on the development of standards-b

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15. Explanation of the relationship between factors such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






16. IDEA






17. A comprehensive approach to prevention and early intervention for preschool - kindergarten - and grades 1 through 5 - with one-to-one tutoring - family support services - and changes in instruction that might be needed to prevent students from fallin






18. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.






19. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.






20. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).






21. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






22. A statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in a distribution of scores.






23. Piaget's term for an infant's understanding during the sensorimotor stage that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen or acted on.






24. Assessment of a collection of the students work in an area showing growth - self-reflection - and achievement.






25. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in their own interests.






26. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to use internal speech to guide them through a task in a step-by-step manner; see inner speech.






27. In Piaget's theory - this type of knowledge is derived in part through interactions with others.*Examples of this knowledge include mathematical words and signs - languages - musical notations - as well as social and moral conventions.






28. Relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured






29. A measure of the degree to which a test is appropriate for its intended use.






30. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.






31. A wide range and varying degrees of characteristics children exhibit that classify them as exceptional and require special accommodations for learning situations






32. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






33. Renowned scientist who founded wild boy






34. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






35. The mental tendency to organize perceptions so they make sense.






36. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






37. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to record their performance and compare it to their target goals.






38. Educational Implications (1) Literature written by feminist/minority authors should be equal to that of others. (2) Historical events should be studied from the perspective of power - status - and marginalized people's struggle within these cont






39. Adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis






40. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage Piaget identified as the ability to generate and test hypotheses in a logical and systematic matter.






41. Using small steps combined with feedback to help learners reach goals.






42. A person is considered legally blind when the best corrected visual acuity is 20/200 - or the person's visual field is 20 degrees or less; not all blind persons have absolutely no sight; most blind persons have some remaining vision; considered blind






43. A cooperative learning model that involves small groups in which students work using cooperative inquiry - planning - project - and group discussion - then make a presentation on their findings to the class.






44. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






45. When a learner makes the same error repeatedly - without explicit outside correction - they reach the point where they never 'hear' the error. The speaker assumes his or her way of speaking is correct.






46. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.






47. Test item usually consisting of a stem followed by choices - or alternatives.






48. A cooperative learning method for mixed-ability groupings involving team recognition and group responsibility for individual learning.






49. A teaching method effective with children having an attention deficit disorder that combines educational support - psychological counseling - behavioral management at school and home - and medical management using a psychostimulant.






50. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences.