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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






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






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






4. In Gardner's theory of intelligence - a person's seven separate






5. 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.






6. Explored identity - but not made a commitment.






7. Behavior - diagnosed by a qualified professional - characterized by inattention - impulsivity - and unusual or excessive activity.






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






9. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli






10. Stages 3 and 4 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.






11. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.






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






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






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






15. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






16. Programs in which assignments or activities are designed to broaden or deepen the knowledge of students who master classroom lessons quickly.






17. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.






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






19. Strategy for memorization in which initial letters of a list to be memorized are taken to make a word or phrase that is more easily remembered.






20. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.






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






22. Cognitive style in which separate parts of a pattern are perceived and analyzed.






23. Theory of motivation based on the belief that people1s efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward.






24. The value each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






25. Contributions to Education Taxes to support public schools - increase in attendance of under-represented groups - created state education departments and appointing of state superintendents






26. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






27. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






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






29. Gauging the progress of students






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






31. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.






32. The language produced by learners in the period before they reach native-like proficiency.






33. 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.






34. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t






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






36. 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.






37. In Piaget's theory - a concept achieved during the concrete operational stage that involves ordering items by two or more attributes - such as by both size and color.






38. Teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.






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






40. A standard students must meet to be considered proficient in a skill.






41. Refers to problems in communication and related areas such as oral motor function; inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional speech and feeding;






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






43. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to attribute intentional states and human characteristics to inanimate objects.






44. A measure of the degree to which a test is appropriate for its intended use.






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






46. Program tailored to the needs of an exceptional child.






47. Knowing about one's own learning ('thinking about thinking').






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






49. 14 years - for at least 3 months each year (with 6 weeks having to be consecutive).






50. Mental processing of new information leading to its linkage with previously learned knowledge.