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Elementary Teaching

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






2. The increase in levels of behavior in the early stages of extinction.






3. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






4. Made an identity commitment - but not explored identity.






5. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






6. 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.






7. Standards derived from giving a test to a sample of people similar to those who will take the test and that can be used to interpret scores of future test takers.






8. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






9. Suggested forming an annex to the public schools to provide special classes for individuals with hearing impairment - visual impairment - and mental retardation






10. Assessment of a collection of the students work in an area showing growth - self-reflection - and achievement.






11. 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.






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






13. Behavior associated with one sex as opposed to the other.






14. A school situation in which a child's needs clash with the learning and behavioral expectations of the educational system.






15. Standard scores that relate students1 raw scores to the average scores obtained by norming groups a t different grade levels.






16. A wide range and varying degrees of characteristics children exhibit that classify them as exceptional and require special accommodations for learning situations






17. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






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






19. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






20. Difficulty in maintaining attention because of limited ability to concentrate accompanied by impulsive actions/hyperactive behavior = may have marked academic - behavior - and social problems stemming from inability to pay attention.






21. 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






22. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






23. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






24. Absolute grading based on criteria for mastery.






25. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






26. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.






27. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






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






29. Lack of relationship between two variables.






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






31. Estimated one in 500-700 babies born each year with some degree of alcohol-related damage/defect- alcohol can damage the central nervous system of fetus and brain damage is not uncommon.






32. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.






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






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






35. Food - water - or other consequence that satisfies basic needs.






36. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






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






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






39. Less severe - more subtle forms of alcohol-related damage.






40. Handicap






41. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet






42. When the teacher demonstrates an activity or lesson before having students do the lesson or activity on their own






43. Father of American Scholarship in Education






44. Developed an early version of finger spelling for individuals who were deaf






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






46. A discussion among four to six students in a group working independently of a teacher.






47. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






48. Did not require bilingual ed.






49. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.

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50. Education Many students educated in parochial schools = taught in their native language & family's religious beliefs were an integral part of the curriculum