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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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 These supports are gradually withdrawn as the student masters the task - thus transferring more and more autonomy to the child.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






2. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






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






4. 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.






5. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action. Eventually these verbalizations are internalized as silent inner speech.






6. Teacher's Role Facilitate discussions that involve clarifying issues.






7. Having students listen for specific information.






8. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






9. Derived score that designates what percent of the norming group earned raw scores lower than a particular score.






10. 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.






11. An explanation of the discomfort people feel when new perceptions or behaviors clash with long-held beliefs.






12. Knowing an object exists when it is out of sight.






13. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






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






15. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania






16. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.






17. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response






18. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.






19. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.






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






21. Has three interlocking unities: the oneness of God (monotheism); the oneness of his prophets or messengers (religious perennialism); and the oneness of humanity (equality - globalism).






22. Knowing about one's own learning ('thinking about thinking').






23. Test item usually consisting of a stem followed by choices - or alternatives.






24. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.






25. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals






26. Hypothesis that successful acquisition of meaningful language occurs when a student is exposed to input that is just a little above the learner's present level.






27. Piaget's concept that refers to our innate tendency of self-regulation to keep our mental representations in balance by adjusting them to maintain organization and stability in our environment through the processes of accommodation and*assimilation.






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






29. Continuation of behavior.






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






31. System of instruction that emphasizes the achievement of instructional objectives by all students by allowing learning time to vary.






32. Handicap






33. Increased ability to learn new information due to previously acquired information.






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






35. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






36. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






37. Tests to assess the student1s level of skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.






38. The public loss of confidence in education






39. Demographics Culturally/Religiously homogenous - Puritan






40. A study stategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






41. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.






42. Federal law P.L. 101-476 enacted in 1990 changing the name of P.L. 94-142 and broadening services to adolescents with disabilities.






43. Have a sense of pride in their accomplishments & enjoy demonstrating their achievements






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






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






46. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






47. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.






48. A comprehensive approach to prevention and early intervention for preschool - kindergarten - and grades 1 through 5 - with one-to-one tutoring - family support services - and changes in instruction that might be needed to prevent students from fallin






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






50. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.