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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Lack of relationship between two variables.






2. Movement is particularly concerned with spiritual exploration - holistic medicine - and mysticism - yet no rigid boundaries actually exist






3. Method of improving retention by practicing new knowledge or behaviors after mastery is achieved.






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






5. A systematic linguistic analysis of the structures of the learners' native and target languages. Contrastive analysis can be performed at different levels of language--sound - lexicon - grammar - meaning - and rhetoric.






6. The unique pattern of strengths and needs related to each child's physical - cognitive - social - and emotional growth; see interindividual variation.






7. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.






8. The study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments; animals are born with a set of fixed action patterns such as imprinting






9. Knowing about one's own learning ('thinking about thinking').






10. An ethnic or racial group that is a minority within a broader society.






11. Educational activities that are given to students who initially fail to master an objective; designed to increase the number of students who master educational objectives.






12. A person1s desire to develop to his or her full potential.






13. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






14. Giving a clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior.






15. Approach to teaching in which lessons are goal-oriented and structured by the teacher.






16. Another term for short-term memory.






17. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.






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






19. Deiceded by state law. Used in Mississippi and other places still!






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






21. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






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






23. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for teaching new behaviors - teachers & parents must model appropriate behaviors and take care that they don't model inappropriate ones






24. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






25. Impairment in student's ability to understand language (receptive language disorder) or to express ideas (expressive language disorder) in one's native language. If not result of physical problem/lack of experience - indicates a LD or mental retardat






26. Piaget's concept that refers to our innate tendency of self-regulation to keep our mental representations in balance by adjusting them to maintain organization and stability in our environment through the processes of accommodation and*assimilation.






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






28. These determine the child's ability to reason about social situations. Development occurs in predictable. before age 6 - child plays by her own idiosyncratic rules.






29. Applications of microcomputers that provide students with practice of skills and knowledge.






30. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with






31. Good behavior is what pleases/helps others and is approved of by them = can earn approval by being nice.






32. Teaching Methods Lecture; questioning; coaching students in critical thinking skills.






33. Sensitivity to natural objects - like plants/animals; making fine sensory discrimination.






34. Upper-slant eyes; short stature; flat nose; somewhat smaller ears/nose; enlarged - sometimes protruding tongue; short fingers; reduced muscle tones; single (Simean) crease across palm of the hand






35. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).






36. A measure of the ability of a test to predict future behavior.






37. 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.






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






39. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.






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






41. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education






42. 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.






43. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






44. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






45. The distinction between conversational fluency (basic interpersonal communication skills - or BICS) - and academic language (cognitive/academic language proficiency - or CALP).






46. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






47. Teacher's Role Facilitate discussions that involve clarifying issues.






48. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






49. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






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