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Elementary Teaching

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1. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






2. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.






3. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






4. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.






5. Degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.






6. Planning instruction by first setting long-range goals - then setting unit objectives - and finally planning daily lessons.






7. An ethnic or racial group that is a minority within a broader society.






8. 1958 Passed in response to the Russian launch of Sputnik satellite; appropriated federal funds to improve education in areas considered crucial to national defense/security: math - foreign language - and science.






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






10. A measure of prestige within a social group most often based on income and education.






11. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli






12. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.






13. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences.






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






15. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.






16. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels.






17. Explanation of learning that focuses on mental processes.






18. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.






19. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






20. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education






21. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.






22. Beginning with processing the higher symbolic and semantic level of meaning of a text and working one's way back to processing the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds).






23. A measure of the ability of a test to predict future behavior.






24. Rules are set down by others.






25. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with






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






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






28. A teacher1s ability to respond to behavior problems without interrupting a classroom lesson.






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






30. Component of the memory system where information is received and held for very short periods of time.






31. The expectation - based on experience - that one1s actions will ultimately lead to failure.






32. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.






33. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.






34. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response






35. 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.






36. Stage at which children develop skills of logical reasoning and conservation but can use theses kills only when dealing with familiar situations.






37. Learning of words or facts under various conditions.






38. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.






39. Teaching Methods Discussion; role-play; simulations; personal research






40. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.






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






42. The application of knowledge and skills to achieve certain goals.






43. 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






44. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania






45. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.






46. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






47. Teen's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choice instead of her own. A pseudo-identity that is too fixed/rigid to serve as a foundation for meeting life's challenges.






48. 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






49. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.






50. Teaching Methods Problem-based learning - cooperative learning - guided discovery.