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Elementary Teaching

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






2. Increased comprehension of previously learned information due to the acquisition of new information.






3. Teachers required to use the same judgement/care as parents in protecting the children under their supervision.






4. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.






5. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements that teachers can directly control.






6. 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






7. People who are equal in age or status.






8. A school situation in which a child's needs clash with the learning and behavioral expectations of the educational system.






9. 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.






10. Terms partially sighted - low vision - legally blind - and totally blind are used in the educational context to describe students with visual impairments






11. Play that occurs alone.






12. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.






13. Test item that includes a question for the student to answer - which may range from a sentence or two to a page of - say - 100 to 150 words.






14. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






15. Capacity to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world; ability to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.






16. Specific behaviors students are expected to exhibit at the end of a series of lessons.






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






18. Deaf students.






19. A statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in a distribution of scores.






20. Explanation of the relationship between factors such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






21. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






22. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see well.






23. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).






24. Parents who give their children great freedom.






25. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






26. State that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising them when they no longer work.






27. Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled.






28. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






29. The increase in levels of behavior in the early stages of extinction.






30. Movements of the fine muscles of the hand.






31. Cognitive style in which separate parts of a pattern are perceived and analyzed.






32. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






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






34. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






35. Measuring students' learning at the end of a lesson






36. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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






43. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components






44. 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






45. Methods for learning. studying. or solving problems.






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






47. Education Many students educated in parochial schools = taught in their native language & family's religious beliefs were an integral part of the curriculum






48. Defines intelligence as 'the capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings.' 8 intelligences - everyone has all 8 - but in different proportions. You can strengthen your weaker areas.

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49. The value each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






50. Theory suggesting that information coded both visually and verbally is remembered better than information coded in only one of those two ways.







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