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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






2. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.






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






4. Teaching methods in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves.






5. Characterized by significantly different psychosocial development from one's peers - including hyperactivity - aggression - withdrawal - immaturity - and learning difficulties.






6. 14 years - for at least 3 months each year (with 6 weeks having to be consecutive).






7. Education of All Handicapped Children Act.






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






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






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






11. Sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with related limitations in 2 or more of the following: communication; self-care; home living; social skills; community use; self-direction; health/safety; functional academics; leisure; work






12. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits






13. Serious/Persistent age-inappropriate behaviors resulting in social conflict - as well as problems in school and personal concept. Caused by make-up of the child - family disfunction/mistreatment - and/or underlying learning disability.






14. Livelihood Industry/Commerce = most lived in towns






15. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.






16. Educational performance markedly and adversely affected over a period of time by: inability to build/maintain satisfacory interpersonal relationships; inappropriate types of behavior/feelings; general unhappiness; etc.






17. 18 mo to 3 yrs.; Goal is to gain the ability to do things for oneself. failure to gain a sense of autonomy leads to a sense of powerlessness/incompetence. Child may begin to doubt her abilities & feel guilty when she tries to show some independence.






18. Important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






19. Using small steps combined with feedback to help learners reach goals






20. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






21. Methods for aiding the memory.






22. Educational Goals Train students' intellect and moral development.






23. Ability to access one's own feelings/abilities to discriminate among them and draw on them to guide behavior; knowledge of one's own strengths - weaknesses - desires and intelligences.






24. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






25. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






26. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






27. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






28. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.






29. Eliminating or decreasing a behavior by removing reinforcement for it.






30. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.






31. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.






32. Teaching Methods Lecture - practice and feedback - questioning.






33. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






34. Difficulty in maintaining attention because of limited ability to concentrate accompanied by impulsive actions/hyperactive behavior = may have marked academic - behavior - and social problems stemming from inability to pay attention.






35. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate - and solve problems.






36. Refers to substantial limitations in present functioning manifests before the age of 18.






37. Growth that occurs during these years usually proceeds from the extremities to the torso & may be uneven - the child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life.






38. Concomitant hearing and visual impairments which cause severe communication & other developmental/learning needs that student can't be educated in special education programs for students with hearing impairmenets/severe disabilities effectively.






39. Cognitive style in which patterns are perceived as whole.






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






41. A theory that proposes that memory is stronger and lasts longer when the conditions of performance are similar to those under which learning occurred.






42. Curriculum Emphasis placed on the works of marginalized people.






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






44. Blurts out answers before questions have been completed - has difficulty awaiting turn - interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g. - butts into conversations or games)






45. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.






46. Values computed from raw scores that relate students1 performances to those of a norming group; examples are percentiles and grade equivalents.






47. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






48. Learning by observing others' behavior.






49. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.






50. Father of American Scholarship in Education