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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.






2. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






3. Degree of deafness; uncorrectable inability to hear well.






4. Providing supports to help a student do a task. These supports are gradually withdrawn as the student masters the task - thus transferring more and more autonomy to the child. Strategies for scaffolding student work include modeling - questioning - g






5. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






6. 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.






7. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.






8. Disorder in ability to control movements caused by damage to the motor area of the brain






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






10. Teen is not able to develop a clear direction or sense of self. May have experienced an identity crises but was unable to resolve it.






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






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






13. Strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






14. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.


15. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






16. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.






17. Loses things necessary for tasks or activities - easily distracted by extraneous stimuli - forgetful in daily activities






18. 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






19. Mental retardation.






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






21. A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time & to a marked degree that adversely affects educational performance






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






23. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






24. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.






25. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge.






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






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






28. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.






29. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






30. A Piagetian concept that develops during the preoperational stage in which children gain the ability to use words to stand for real objects.






31. A reward that is external to the activity - such as recognition or a good grade.






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






33. 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.






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






35. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






36. Using standard English to correct a learner's speech errors.






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






38. Time during which students have the opportunity to learn.






39. Teacher's Role (Same as for Perennialism) Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions






40. Term for native speakers of any language other than English.






41. Theory that information is stored in long-term memory in networks of connected facts and concepts that provide a structure for making sense of new information.






42. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






43. Developed an early version of finger spelling for individuals who were deaf






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






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


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






47. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.






48. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.






49. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






50. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.