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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. 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






2. The ability to use language to learn academic content. (Including using spoken & written English to do assignments - interact with teachers - and communicate with native-English-speaking peers.)






3. Stages 1 and 2 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in their own interests.






4. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






5. The language - attitudes - ways of behaving - and other aspects of life that characterize a group of people.






6. List of instructional objectives and expected levels of understanding that guide test development.






7. Assessment of a student's ability to perform tasks - not just knowledge.






8. Important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






9. These determine the child's ability to reason about social situations. Development occurs in predictable. before age 6 - child plays by her own idiosyncratic rules.






10. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions asked during the course of a lesson.






11. An act that is followed by a favorable effect is more likely to be repeated in similar situations; an act that is followed by an unfavorable effect is less likely to be repeated.






12. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.






13. Learning Environment (Same as Perennialism) High structure; high levels of on task time.






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






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






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






17. Measurement of important abilities using procedures that simulate the application of these abilities to real-life problems.






18. Degree of deafness; uncorrectable inability to hear well.






19. Behavior - diagnosed by a qualified professional - characterized by inattention - impulsivity - and unusual or excessive activity.






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






21. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






22. Capacity to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world; ability to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.






23. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






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






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






26. 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






27. The age of an individual in years.






28. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.






29. Ability to access one's own feelings/abilities to discriminate among them and draw on them to guide behavior; knowledge of one's own strengths - weaknesses - desires and intelligences.






30. Length of time that a teacher allows a student to take to answer a question. Calling order--The order in which students are called by the teacher to answer questions asked during the course of a lesson.






31. A term used by Piaget to describe how children change existing schemes by altering old ways of thinking or acting to fit new information in their environment; contrast with assimilation.






32. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.






33. Person defines her own values in terms of the ethical principles she has elected to follow.






34. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






35. Teen experiments with occupational and ideological choices without a commitment to any. Teen is currently in the midst of an identity crisis.






36. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.






37. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.






38. Stage at which children develop skills of logical reasoning and conservation but can use theses kills only when dealing with familiar situations.






39. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






40. Religion Wide variety of religious beliefs practiced






41. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on gaining recognition from others and earning good grades.






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






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






44. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






45. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






46. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.






47. 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.






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






49. One of two basic principles referred to by Piaget as invariant functions; the ability of all organisms to adapt their mental representations or behavior to fit environmental demands; contrast with organization.






50. Difficulties producing speech sounds or problems with voice quality; interruption in the flow of rhythm of speech (e.g. - stuttering)