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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






2. Father of American Scholarship in Education






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






4. Teacher's Role (Same as for Perennialism) Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions






5. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.






6. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can think simultaneously about a whole class of objects as well as relationships among its subordinate classes.






7. Specific behaviors students are expected to exhibit at the end of a series of lessons.






8. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.






9. 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).






10. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






11. 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.






12. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.






13. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to record their performance and compare it to their target goals.






14. Teaching Methods Lecture - practice and feedback - questioning.






15. Teaching Methods Lecture; questioning; coaching students in critical thinking skills.






16. A reward that is external to the activity - such as recognition or a good grade.






17. Deiceded by state law. Used in Mississippi and other places still!






18. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.






19. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli






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






21. The average test score received by individuals of a given chronological age.






22. Child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life; the brain continues to develop fast than any other part of the body - up to 90% of its adult weight;






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






24. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.






25. A person's interpretation of stimuli.






26. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text






27. Not explored identity - not made a commitment.






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






29. Curriculum Emphasis is on enduring ideas.






30. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






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






32. Learning of words or facts under various conditions.






33. One of three types of knowledge as described by Piaget; knowing the attributes of objects such as their number - color - size - and shape; knowledge is acquired by acting on objects - experimenting - and observing reactions.






34. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements that teachers can directly control.






35. Have 47 chromosomes instead of 46; TRISOMY 21 - the extra chromosome attaches to the 21st pair






36. Test item that includes a question for the student to answer - which may range from a sentence or two to a page of - say - 100 to 150 words.






37. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






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






39. A process that occurs when recall of certain information is inhibited by the presence of other information in memory.






40. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on knowledge acquisition and self-improvement.






41. Score designated as the minimum necessary to demonstrate mastery of a subject.






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






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






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






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






46. 1819 Jurisdictional dispute between the college's president and board of trustees led to a Supreme Court ruling favoring the educational freedom of private institutions (which is what colleges are considered to be)






47. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.






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






49. Child often tilts head/rubs eyes; has eyes that are red - inflamed - crusty - or water excessively; has trouble reading small print/can't discriminate letters; complains of dizziness/headaches after reading.






50. The mental tendency to organize perceptions so they make sense.