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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Conequence given to strengthen behavior






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






3. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






4. Educational Implications (1) Emphasis on basic skills/certain academic subjects students must master. (2) the graduation of a literate/skilled workforce. (3) Curriculum must change to meet societal changes.






5. 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






6. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.






7. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.






8. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






9. Dispensing reinforcement following an unpredictable number of correct behaviors.






10. Another term for short-term memory.






11. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.






12. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






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






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






15. 1990 Governs how states/public agencies provide early early intervention - special education - and related services to children with disabilities from birth to 21 years of age.






16. 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






17. Continuous feedback to the teacher - test smaller units - monitor progress - informal






18. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.






22. A task requiring recall of a list of items in any order.






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Involves organizing - selecting - and applying complex procedures that have at least several important steps or components.






27. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






28. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.






29. An approach to learning which purports that children must construct their own understandings of the world in which they live. Teachers guide this process through focusing attention - posing questions - and stretching children's thinking; information






30. A category of disability that significantly affects social interaction - verbal and nonverbal communication - and educational performance.






31. 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






32. The tendency to think about - see - and understand the world from one's own perspective; an inability to see objects or situations from another's perspective.






33. Emphasizes curriculum that focuses on real-world problem solving and individual development. Most closely related to the Pragmatism school of philosophy






34. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






35. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






36. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child






37. 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






38. Process by which thoroughly learned tasks can be performed with little mental effort.






39. Incorrect responses offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question.






40. Decreased ability to recall previously learned information causedby learning of new information.






41. 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






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






43. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.






44. A concept which allows children to use information they already have acquired to form new knowledge that begins to emerge during the concrete operational stage but more characteristic of adolescent thinking.






45. Adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis






46. A change in an individual that results from experience.






47. A type of standardized score ranging from 1 to 9 - having a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.






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






49. 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






50. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t