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Elementary Teaching
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1. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.
John Joseph Hughes
Progressivism
Performance goals
Paired-associate learning
2. Assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores - compute glass grades using standardized test scores - compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes
Culture
New England Colonies
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
3. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge.
Criterion-referenced evaluations
Videodisc
Schemes
Discipline
4. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.
Discipline
Backward planning
Word processing
Impulsivity
5. People who are equal in age or status.
Peers
Alexander Graham Bell
Public Law 94142
Learning probe
6. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
Multiple-choice item
Inferred reality
Postmodernism
Robert J. Breckenridge
7. Length of time that a teacher allows a student to take to answer a question. Calling order--The order in which students are called by the teacher to answer questions asked during the course of a lesson.
Intellectual Disability
Adaptation
Wait time
extinction
8. Teaching methods in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves.
Convulsive disorders
equilibration
Discovery learning
Sensory register
9. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.
Postmodernism
realism
Learning Disability (LD)
communicative competence
10. Demographics Culturally/Religiously homogenous - Puritan
New England Colonies
Punishment
Functional fixedness
Learned helplessness
11. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.
John Joseph Hughes
Aptitude test
Perennialism
Accommodation
12. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.
circular reactions
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Mastery grading
Describes the consequences of having the disability.
13. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or a situation.
Social comparison
Centration
Negative Correlation
inside-outside circle
14. 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.
Know Nothing Party
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
In 1975 - Congress enacted a federal law known as Public Law (P.L.) 94-142 or the
Part learning
15. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective
extinction
Summative Assessment
Tracks
Expectancy theory
16. Sensitivity to the sounds - rhythms - and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language.
Linguistic Intelligence
QAIT model
Keyword method
Instructional objective
17. Deiceded by state law. Used in Mississippi and other places still!
Reliability
Valid reasons for assessing students
Functional fixedness
Corpal Punishment
18. Time students spend actually learning; same as time on-task.
hypothetico-deductive thinking
Alexander Graham Bell
Engaged time
Gestalt psychology
19. Contributions to Education Taxes to support public schools - increase in attendance of under-represented groups - created state education departments and appointing of state superintendents
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
Critical thinking
Common School Movement
Know Nothing Party
20. Have a sense of pride in their accomplishments & enjoy demonstrating their achievements
Typical of 5 year olds
Deficiency needs
Constructed Response
culture
21. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
Ages 12 - 18
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
22. Instruction given to students having difficulty learning.
Overlapping
Sensorimotor stage
Remediation
Stage 4: Law and Order Orientation
23. Emphasizes curriculum that focuses on real-world problem solving and individual development. Most closely related to the Pragmatism school of philosophy
Self-esteem
Events of instruction
Norm-Referenced Tests
Progressivism
24. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.
Instructional objective
Identity Achievement Status
George Counts
John Joseph Hughes
25. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.
Ethnicity
Attachment Theory
Outcomes-based education
Mock participation
26. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.
Stage 2: Instrumental Relativist Orientation
sensorimotor stage
Growth needs
Summative evaluation
27. 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.
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
Cognitive learning theory
bottom-up processing
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
28. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.
Authoritarian parents
Direct instruction
Randomized Field Experiment
Correlational Study
29. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Rote learning
Drill and practice
Self-concept
Independent practice
30. 12
Classroom management
There are this many categories of exceptionality in which students aged 6-21 are served under IDEA?
Withitness
Whole language
31. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.
Working with students with speech disorders
Achievement batteries
Goal structure
Speech Disorders
32. Person adopts rules and will sometimes subordinate her own needs to those of the group. Expectations of family - group - or nation are seen as valuable in their own right - regardless of immediate/obvious consequences.
Land Law of 1785
Centration
Peers
Conventional Level
33. Described educators of the early 20th century as educational missionaries
Joplin Plan
Achievement tests
Dartmouth College Case
Berard Bailyn
34. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
Lloyd P. Jorgenson
unconditioned responce
intraindividual variation
Reinforcer
35. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.
Overlearning
Learning together
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Identity foreclosure
36. Belief that a critical core of information exists that all people should possess. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of philosophy.
Essentialism
Deficiency needs
Wait time
Convulsive disorders
37. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.
Shaping
Culture
Educational Implications of Social Learning Theory
English as a second language
38. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.
Learning goals
Conditioned stimulus
conservation
accommodation
39. Explanation of learning that emphasizes observable changes in behavior.
natural order hypothesis
Where the school accountability movement comes from
Perennialism
Behavioral learning theory
40. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f
Language Disorders
Accommodation
Characteristics of Autism
Job Corps Established
41. Knowing about one's own learning ('thinking about thinking').
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
scheme
Metacognition
culture
42. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.
Foreclosure
Psychosocial Crisis
Juan Bonet
propositional logic
43. Programs that target at-risk infants and toddlers to prevent possible later need for remediation.
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
PQ4R method
Early intervention
Cutoff score
44. Theory based on the belief that human development occurs through a series of distinct stages.
adaptation
Discontinuous theory of development
Experiment
Scaffolding
45. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self; adolescent has few commitments to goals and values - and seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an identity crisis has been experienced - it has not been resolved
summative assessment
zone of proximal development
Identity Diffusion
giftedness
46. Belief that nature and human nature is constant. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of traditional philosophy.
academic competence
Perennialism
Postmodernism
Standardized tests
47. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components
language learning hypothesis
Naturalist Intelligence
Language Disorders
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)
48. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.
Moratorium
Perennialism
Tutorial programs
Integrity v. Despair Stage Late Adulthood
49. Hypothesis that language acquisition is related directly to the student's attitude about learning. (Krashen's Theory)
Southern Colonies
affective filter hypothesis
Moral dilemmas
Mastery goals
50. 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
buy-in
Taxonomy of educational objectives
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
Postmodernism