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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Test that predicts ability to learn a variety of specific skills and types of knowledge.






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






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






4. Assessments that follow instruction and evaluate knowledge or skills.






5. 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.






6. Free Exercise Clause "Freedom of speech" - has been extend to freedom in religious practice






7. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.






8. Have 47 chromosomes instead of 46; TRISOMY 21 - the extra chromosome attaches to the 21st pair






9. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






10. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.






11. Teaching Methods Lecture - practice and feedback - questioning.






12. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.






13. Serious/Persistent age-inappropriate behaviors resulting in social conflict - as well as problems in school and personal concept. Caused by make-up of the child - family disfunction/mistreatment - and/or underlying learning disability.






14. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.

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15. The adolescent's inability to develop a clear sense of self.






16. An approach to instruction and school organization that clearly specifies what students should know and be able to do at the end of a course of study.






17. Display acceptance of student; never finish student's sentence or allow others to do so; don't put student in high-pressure situation in which they must respond quickly in a verbal manner.






18. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






19. Assessment Frequent objective - essay - and performance tests.






20. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.






21. Parents who mix firm guidance with respect and warmth toward their children.






22. Disability






23. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






24. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






25. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.






26. The age of an individual in years.






27. Requires student to supply rather than to select the answer






28. Meichenbaum's developmental program that helps children control and regulate their behavior; children are taught self-regulatory strategies to use as a verbal tool to inhibit impulses - control impulses and frustration - and promote reflection.






29. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






30. 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.






31. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.






32. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.






33. Use of mental images to improve memory.






34. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.






35. Stages 3 and 4 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.






36. Scores are comparable across populations






37. A set of principles that explain and relate certain phenomena.






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






39. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






40. Another term for short-term memory.






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






42. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.






43. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






44. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






45. Educational needs teach religion & 3 R's - have a literate citizenship that could read the bible






46. 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.






47. The fundamental assumption of the common school movement is 'the public school would be an agent of moral/social redemption that resulted from nonsectarian religious instruction'; exposed evils associated with this movement.






48. Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes - difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities






49. The process of focusing on certain stimuli while screening others out.






50. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.