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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






2. Almost all girls begin menstruation by age 13 - most girls reach their adult stature by age 16






3. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






4. 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.






5. Teacher's Role Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions.






6. Easily memorize facts but has limited understanding of them; highly verbal with poor verbal/nonverbal communication skills; have a set way of doing things; experience extreme anxiety when routine is changed/expectations are not met; sensitive to soun

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






8. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






9. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






10. Dispensing reinforcement for behavior emitted following an unpredictable amount of time.






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






12. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania






13. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






14. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.






15. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.






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






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






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






19. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals






20. Tests that are usually commercially prepared for nationwide use to provide accurate and meaningful information on student's level of performance relative to others at their age or grade levels.






21. Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm - pitch - and timbre; appreciation of the forms of musical expression






22. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.






23. A measure of the degree to which instructional objectives have been attained.






24. The process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise in interaction with an expert - either an adult or an older or more advanced peer.






25. The application of behavioral learning principles to understand and change behavior.






26. Praise that is effective because it refers directly to specific task performances.






27. 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






28. Learning Environment (Same as Perennialism) High structure; high levels of on task time.






29. Eliminating or decreasing a behavior by removing reinforcement for it.






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






31. The period of life from 7 to 11 years old when - Piaget believed - children's thinking becomes less rigid - and they begin to use mental operations - such as classification - conservation - and seriation to think about events and objects in their env






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






33. Methods for aiding the memory.






34. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to low scores on another.






35. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.






36. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






37. An explanation of the discomfort people feel when new perceptions or behaviors clash with long-held beliefs.






38. 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.






39. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






40. 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.






41. Developmental disability affecting social interactions - verbal/nonverbal communication - and educational performance. Generally evident before the age of 3 years.






42. Less severe - more subtle forms of alcohol-related damage.






43. A process that occurs when recall of certain information is inhibited by the presence of other information in memory.






44. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.






45. Federal law P.L. 101-476 enacted in 1990 changing the name of P.L. 94-142 and broadening services to adolescents with disabilities.






46. A mental operation learned during the concrete operational stage that allows children to organize concepts and objects according to how they relate to one another in a building-block fashion. For example - all matter is composed of molecules and mole






47. The speech or writing that a learner produces in a target language






48. Representing the main points of material in heirarchical format.






49. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.






50. The public loss of confidence in education