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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Something that can have more than one value.






2. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






3. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






4. Learning by observation and imitation of others.






5. Interactive programs that include videos. films. still pictures - and music.






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






7. Goal was to prevent Catholic schools from receiving state and tax-payer funding for schools and ensuring that only the Protestant bible was used in schools.






8. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






9. Rapid promotion through advanced studies for students who are gifted or talented.






10. Established a school for individuals who were blind in Paris






11. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.






12. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits






13. A task involving the linkage of two items in a pair so that when one is presented the other can be recalled.serial learning--A task requiring recall of a list of items.






14. Bloom's ordering of objectives from simple learning tasks to more complex ones.






15. The degree to which people are held responsible for their task performances or decision outcomes.






16. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






17. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things.






18. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






19. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.






20. The ability to use language to learn academic content. (Including using spoken & written English to do assignments - interact with teachers - and communicate with native-English-speaking peers.)






21. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






22. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.






23. Suggested forming an annex to the public schools to provide special classes for individuals with hearing impairment - visual impairment - and mental retardation






24. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.






25. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action. Eventually these verbalizations are internalized as silent inner speech.






26. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of all students.






27. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.






28. Difficulty in maintaining attention because of limited ability to concentrate accompanied by impulsive actions/hyperactive behavior = may have marked academic - behavior - and social problems stemming from inability to pay attention.






29. Indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision (20 degrees at its widest point)






30. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






31. Absolute grading based on criteria for mastery.






32. Contends that many societal institutions - including schools - are used by those in power to control/marginalize those who lack power = education should focus on reversing this.






33. Teen is not able to develop a clear direction or sense of self. May have experienced an identity crises but was unable to resolve it.






34. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






35. An activity acting out situations encountered in the classroom or in everyday life - using the language that might be used in such situations






36. Condition - usually present at birth - that results in below-average intellectual skills and poor adaptive behavior.






37. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






38. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others.






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






40. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge from the mind.






41. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






42. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.






43. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






44. Measurement of important abilities using procedures that simulate the application of these abilities to real-life problems.






45. 1875 Court upheld Michigan school officials' attempts to collect public funds for the support of a village high school to provide a secondary education for all males = set precedent for public funding of high schools.






46. Sensitivity to the sounds - rhythms - and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language.






47. Time students spend actually learning; same as time on-task.






48. Instruction given to students having difficulty learning.






49. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






50. Behavior - diagnosed by a qualified professional - characterized by inattention - impulsivity - and unusual or excessive activity.