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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Teaching Methods Problem-based learning - cooperative learning - guided discovery.






2. Explored identity - but not made a commitment.






3. 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






4. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






5. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






6. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.






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






8. Tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts






9. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.






10. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.






11. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not on his or her own






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






13. Did not require bilingual ed.






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






15. Bell-shaped symmetrical distribution of scores in which most scores fall near the mean - with progressively fewer occurring as distance from the mean increases.






16. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






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






18. Goal was to prevent Catholic schools from receiving state and tax-payer funding for schools and ensuring that only the Protestant bible was used in schools.






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






20. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade






21. An apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






22. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






23. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.






24. Students' readiness to begin a lesson.






25. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge from the mind.






26. 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.






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






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






29. Has difficulty organizing tasks & activities - avoids - dislikes - or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort






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






31. Revealed prejudicial side of common school movement






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






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






34. Physical consequences of an action is determine whether the action is 'good' or 'bad'.






35. Learning by observation and imitation of others.






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






37. 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






38. A disorder characterized by difficulties maintaining attention because of a limited ability to concentrate; includes impulsive actions and hyperactive behavior.






39. Interpreting new experiences in relation to existing schemes.






40. Structured lessons that students can work on individually - at their own pace.






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






42. Category of exceptionality characterized by problems with learning - interpersonal relationships - and control of feelings and behavior.






43. A measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






44. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






45. A lifelong developmental disability that is neurologically based and affects the functioning of the brain; disabilities vary from mild to severe and include deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication - problems with reciprocal social interaction






46. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.






47. Curriculum Emphasis placed on the works of marginalized people.






48. Using standard English to correct a learner's speech errors.






49. Free Exercise Clause "Freedom of speech" - has been extend to freedom in religious practice






50. Relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured