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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






2. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to high scores on another.






3. Students who are subject to school failure because of characteristics of the student or inadequate responses to their needs by school - family - or community.






4. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.






5. Wrote anti-papism literature influencing exclusion of Catholic schools from public funding






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






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. Degree of deafness; uncorrectable inability to hear well.






9. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






10. Associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to evoke a conditioned response.






11. Category of exceptionality characterized by being very bright - creative - or talented.






12. One student teaching another.






13. Inform decision makers about student behaviors - monitor student progress toward a goal - screen students for specific purposes






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






15. 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






16. Assessment Frequent objective - essay - and performance tests.






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






18. 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.






19. Strategy for remembering lists by picturing items in familiar locations.






20. Educational Goals Students need to acquire the ability to function in the real world and to develop problem-solving skills.






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






22. 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






23. Handicap






24. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.






25. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.






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27. Gauging the progress of students






28. Provisions in the law (IDEA) that requires students with disabilities to be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with their nondisabled peers.






29. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their sensesand motor skills.






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






31. Fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat - leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected






32. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






33. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.






34. Founding father; believed the security of the republic lay in proper education.






35. Category of exceptionality characterized by problems with learning - interpersonal relationships - and control of feelings and behavior.






36. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text






37. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior.






38. The process of comparing one's self to others to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities.






39. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.






40. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






41. Methods used to organize classtoom activities - instruction - physical structure - and other features to make effective use of time - to create a happy and productive learning environment - and to minimize behavior problmes and other disruptions.






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






43. A cooperative learning model that involves students with four- or five-member heterogenous groups on assignments.






44. Educational Implications (1)rigorous intellectual curriculum for all students. (2) Focus on math - science - and literature = logical thought/enduring ideas. (3) Goal = students develop intellectual skills in writing - speaking - computing - problem-






45. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c






46. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






47. A concept in Vygotsky's theory regarding children's potential for intellectual growth rather than their actual level of development; the gap between what children can do on their own and what they can do with the assistance of others.






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






49. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky that is used primarily for communicative purposes in which thought and language have separate functions; contrast with egocentric speech and inner speech.






50. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.