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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






2. 1965 part of Pres. Johnson's "War on Poverty.' Provides funding for special programs for children of low-income families in grades k through 12. has been reauthorized by Congress every 5 years since its inception.






3. Handicap






4. Given two lists - each item in one list will match with one item in the other list.






5. 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






6. Learning by observing others' behavior.






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






8. Capacity to discern and respond appropriately to the moods - temperaments - motivations - and desires of others.






9. 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.






10. Category of exceptionality characterized by being very bright - creative - or talented.






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






12. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.






13. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






14. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.






15. Use of mental images to improve memory.






16. Interactive programs that include videos. films. still pictures - and music.






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






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






19. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






20. Beginning with processing the higher symbolic and semantic level of meaning of a text and working one's way back to processing the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds).






21. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






22. An educational philosophy that emphasizes the integration of reading - writing - and language and communication skills across the curriculum in the context of authentic or real-life materials - problems - and tasks.






23. Belief that nature and human nature is constant. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of traditional philosophy.






24. Classes or curricula targeted for students of a specified achievement or ability level.






25. 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






26. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






27. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






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






29. 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






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






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32. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






33. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky during which children begin to use speech to regulate their behavior and thinking through spoken aloud self-verbalizations; contrast with social speech and inner speech.






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






35. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






36. Program tailored to the needs of an exceptional child.






37. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.






38. Forms of epilepsy.






39. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their sensesand motor skills.






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






41. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






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






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






44. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






45. State that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising them when they no longer work.






46. The period of life from 2 to 7 years old when - Piaget believed - children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols (gestures - words - numbers) to represent real objects in their environment.






47. Mild to moderate mental retardation (some exceptions); may have heart defects - hearing loss - intestinal malformation - vision problems; increased risk for thyroid problems - leukemia - & Alzheimer disease






48. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






50. Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - does not follow through on instructions & fails to finish schoolwork - chores - or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)