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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. A part of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge.






2. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the environment/routine; more pr






3. Handicap






4. Evaluating conclusions by logically and systematically examining the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






6. 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.






7. A test designed to measure general abilities and to predict future performance.






8. Strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations.






9. Knowledge about one's own thinking; involves an understanding of how memory works - what tasks require more cognitive effort - and what strategies facilitate learning; plays an important role in children's cognitive development during the middle chil






10. Piaget's term for children's inconsistency in thinking within a developmental stage; explains why - for instance - children do not learn conservation tasks about numbers and volume at the same time.






11. 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)






12. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






13. Child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life; the brain continues to develop fast than any other part of the body - up to 90% of its adult weight;






14. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






15. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.






16. Clear statement of what students are intended to learn through instruction.






17. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






18. A study stategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






19. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






21. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.






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






23. Deaf students.






24. Cognitive style of responding quickly but often without regard for accuracy.






25. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






26. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text






27. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






28. Programs in which assignments or activities are designed to broaden or deepen the knowledge of students who master classroom lessons quickly.






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






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






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






32. Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.






33. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.






34. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






35. Strategy for memorization in which initial letters of a list to be memorized are taken to make a word or phrase that is more easily remembered.






36. Make sure student understands classroom rules/procedures; seat ADHD students in close proximity to you; understand student may not be able to control her behavior (not defiant); allow student opportunities to be active; use daily report cards






37. The idea of 'public education' was created by historians who were 'educational missionaries.'






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






39. An acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force - resulting in a total/partialfunctional disability - psychosocial impairment - or both - that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






40. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






41. Students: 1) think about the lesson topic; 2) pair up with partners and share according to the guidelines the teacher has provided; 3) share their discussions with the rest of the class. Each person takes a turn retelling their partners' information.






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






43. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.






44. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close






45. A thinking-skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






46. Also referred to as schema (pl. schemata) in some research areas; in Piaget's theory - the physical actions - mental operations - concepts - or theories people use to organize and acquire information about their world.






47. Learning strategies for learning.






48. The tendency for items that appear at the end of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






49. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






50. Tests to assess the student1s level of skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.