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Elementary Teaching

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1. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals






2. A psychological movement - started in Germany - that advanced the understanding of perception.






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






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






5. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.






6. 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.






7. 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






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






9. Conequence given to strengthen behavior






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






11. One student teaching another.






12. A model based on the idea that information is processed simultaneously in the sensory register - short-term memory - and long-term memory.






13. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






14. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.






15. During the period of life between 11 and 12 years of age and onward during which - Piaget believed - children begin to apply formal rules of logic and to gain the ability to think abstractly and reflectively; thinking shifts from the real to the poss






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






17. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.






18. Dispensing reinforcement for behavior emitted following an unpredictable amount of time.






19. 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.






20. Down syndrome - autism - developmental disability - schizophrenia - anxiety disorders - bipolar disorder (manic depression) - anorexia - post traumatic stress disorder - print disability - hearing impairment - physical disability






21. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences.






22. Facial abnormalities; heart defects; low birth weight; motor dysfunctions






23. Teachers should help students set realistic expectations for their academic accomplishments - self-regulation techniques provide effective methods for improving behavior






24. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.






25. Forms of epilepsy.






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






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






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






29. The many small skills needed in a larger course of action.






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






31. Display acceptance of student; never finish student's sentence or allow others to do so; don't put student in high-pressure situation in which they must respond quickly in a verbal manner.






32. 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.






33. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f






34. Study of a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - and after the treatment is applied.






35. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






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






37. Goal is for the child to be successful in whatever she does - as success brings a positive sense of self/one's abilities. failure creates a negative self-image.






38. Behavior associated with one sex as opposed to the other.






39. Teacher's Role Facilitate discussions that involve clarifying issues.






40. Socioemotional and behavioral disorders indicated in individuals who - for example - are chronically disobedient or disruptive.






41. Piaget's concept that refers to our innate tendency of self-regulation to keep our mental representations in balance by adjusting them to maintain organization and stability in our environment through the processes of accommodation and*assimilation.






42. Breaking down tasks into fundamental subskills.






43. Articulation problems occurring most frequently among children in the early elementary school grades.






44. Diagramming main ideas and connections between them.






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






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






47. 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






48. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.






49. 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






50. Requires student to supply rather than to select the answer







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