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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






2. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior






3. 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.






4. A measure of prestige within a social group most often based on income and education.






5. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.






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






7. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.






8. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.






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






10. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






11. Stages 5 and 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgements in relation to abstract principles.






12. Forms of epilepsy.






13. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.






14. Explanation of learning that focuses on mental processes.






15. 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.






16. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






17. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






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






19. Lack of relationship between two variables.






20. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






21. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






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






23. Test that predicts ability to learn a variety of specific skills and types of knowledge.






24. Continuous feedback to the teacher - test smaller units - monitor progress - informal






25. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.






26. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






27. Explored identity - but not made a commitment.






28. Sensitivity to the sounds - rhythms - and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language.






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






30. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






31. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.






32. A set of principles that explain and relate certain phenomena.






33. A concept which allows children to use information they already have acquired to form new knowledge that begins to emerge during the concrete operational stage but more characteristic of adolescent thinking.






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. Motivation that stems from one's own needs or desires - not requiring extrinsic incentives.






36. Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without it.






37. Assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores - compute glass grades using standardized test scores - compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes






38. Oral articulation problems; occur most frequently among children in early elementary grades.






39. Body quadruples in weight and the brain triples in weight - neurons branch & grow into dense connective networks between the brain & the rest of the body






40. Methods - such as questions - that help teachers find out if students understand a lesson.






41. Father of American Scholarship in Education






42. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.






43. The period of life from 7 to 11 years old when - Piaget believed - children's thinking becomes less rigid - and they begin to use mental operations - such as classification - conservation - and seriation to think about events and objects in their env






44. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






45. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.






46. 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






47. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.






48. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.






49. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.






50. A teaching method in which the teacher guides instruction so that students will master and internalize the skills that permit higher cognitive functioning.