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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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'.






2. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






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






4. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet






5. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information.






6. Hypothesis that language acquisition is related directly to the student's attitude about learning. (Krashen's Theory)






7. 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.






8. A measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






9. Theory based on the belief that human development occurs through a series of distinct stages.






10. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching






11. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






12. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






13. A cooperative learning model in which students are assigned to six-member teams to work on academic material that has been broken down into sections for each member.






14. IDEA






15. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances - a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression - a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems






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






17. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






18. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






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






20. Entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths






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






22. The language produced by learners in the period before they reach native-like proficiency.






23. Child often tilts head/rubs eyes; has eyes that are red - inflamed - crusty - or water excessively; has trouble reading small print/can't discriminate letters; complains of dizziness/headaches after reading.






24. Score designated as the minimum necessary to demonstrate mastery of a subject.






25. Bell-shaped symmetrical distribution of scores in which most scores fall near the mean - with progressively fewer occurring as distance from the mean increases.






26. 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)






27. Test that predicts ability to learn a variety of specific skills and types of knowledge.






28. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.






29. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.






30. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.


31. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.






32. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences.






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






34. Contends that many societal institutions - including schools - are used by those in power to control/marginalize those who lack power = education should focus on reversing this.






35. Belief that nature and human nature is constant. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of traditional philosophy.






36. Decreased ability to learn new information because of interference of present knowledge.






37. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have






38. Program in which rewards or punishments are given to a class as a whole for adhering to or violating rules of conduct.






39. A developmental limitation present during the preoperational stage that makes young children focus their attention on only one aspect - usually the most salient - of a stimulus.






40. 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.






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






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






43. A personality trait that concerns whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal factors or to external factors.






44. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text






45. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.






46. Involves stating learning objectives; thinking through what the students will know or be able to do after the lesson; what information - activities - and experiences the teacher will provide; the time needed to reach the objective; what books - mater






47. Described educators of the early 20th century as educational missionaries






48. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.






49. Instruction given to students having difficulty learning.






50. Theories of cognitive development that emphasize the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality.