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Elementary Teaching

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1. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.






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






3. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






4. Theories of cognitive development that emphasize the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality.






5. Assessment Continuous feedback - informal monitoring of students' progress






6. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






7. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for teaching new behaviors - teachers & parents must model appropriate behaviors and take care that they don't model inappropriate ones






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






9. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.






10. An act that is followed by a favorable effect is more likely to be repeated in similar situations; an act that is followed by an unfavorable effect is less likely to be repeated.






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






12. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior






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






14. Have a sense of pride in their accomplishments & enjoy demonstrating their achievements






15. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






16. Education Reserved for the sons of wealthy - White families






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






18. 1983 National Commission on Excellence in education report; called for greater federal support of education because the nation was threatened by "a rising tide of mediocrity: - calls for educational reform based on the development of standards-b

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19. Students often learn a great deal simply by observing other people - describing the consequences of behaviors can effectively increase appropriate behaviors & decrease inappropriate ones






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






21. A subconscious process in which learners develop competence by using language for 'real communication.' This is often contrasted with taking courses to learn language.






22. 1978 Schools required to provide services and activities to meet the needs of students identified as being gifted/talented.






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






24. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






25. Conequence given to strengthen behavior






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






27. The kinds of difficulties a majority of children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including argumentative - aggressive - antisocial - and destructive actions; contrast with internalizing problems.






28. Ability to make rational decisions about what to do or what to believe.






29. 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.






30. Learning Environment (Same as Perennialism) High structure; high levels of on task time.






31. Final test of an objective.






32. Compensatory education programs in which students are placed in separate classes for remediation.






33. Play that occurs alone.






34. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






35. 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.






36. An approach to instruction and school organization that clearly specifies what students should know and be able to do at the end of a course of study.






37. Play in which children join together to achieve a common goal.






38. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






39. 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






40. Using consequences to control the occurrence of behavior.






41. Programs that target at-risk infants and toddlers to prevent possible later need for remediation.






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






43. Parents who give their children great freedom.






44. Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.






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






46. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet






47. A theory that emphasizes the active integration of new material with existing schemata.






48. Scores are comparable across populations






49. The process of focusing on certain stimuli while screening others out.






50. A person is considered legally blind when the best corrected visual acuity is 20/200 - or the person's visual field is 20 degrees or less; not all blind persons have absolutely no sight; most blind persons have some remaining vision; considered blind







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