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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. Study of a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - and after the treatment is applied.






6. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.






7. Right = doing your duty - showing respect for authority - and maintaining social order for its own sake.






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






9. People who are equal in age or status.






10. The speech or writing that a learner produces in a target language






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






12. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.






13. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






14. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.






15. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.






16. 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.






17. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to use internal speech to guide them through a task in a step-by-step manner; see inner speech.






18. Inducement of students to go along with the instructional goals of the teacher - usually fostered by helping students realize how a particular type of learning will help them.






19. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






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






21. Educational Implications (1) Emphasis on basic skills/certain academic subjects students must master. (2) the graduation of a literate/skilled workforce. (3) Curriculum must change to meet societal changes.






22. Group that receives treatment during an experiment.






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






24. 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






25. Contends that many societal institutions - including schools - are used by those in power to control/marginalize those who lack power = education should focus on reversing this.






26. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






27. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






28. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






29. The application of behavioral learning principles to understand and change behavior.






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






31. Evaluating conclusions by logically and systematically examining the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






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






33. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






34. Research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable - provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language - grade essays without regard for who






35. The degree to which people are held responsible for their task performances or decision outcomes.






36. 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.






37. (Cognitive) a developmental view of how moral reasoning evolves from a low to a high level. Argues that people with low moral level are unable to conceive acts of aggression as being immoral.

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38. 1975 Requires all schools receiving federal funds to provide equal access to education for children whith physical and mental disabilities.






39. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.






40. Interpreting new experiences in relation to existing schemes.






41. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.






42. In Piaget's theory - this type of knowledge is derived in part through interactions with others.*Examples of this knowledge include mathematical words and signs - languages - musical notations - as well as social and moral conventions.






43. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






44. Program in which rewards or punishments are given to a class as a whole for adhering to or violating rules of conduct.






45. The many small skills needed in a larger course of action.






46. 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






47. Providing supports to help a student do a task. These supports are gradually withdrawn as the student masters the task - thus transferring more and more autonomy to the child. Strategies for scaffolding student work include modeling - questioning - g






48. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






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






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