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Elementary Teaching

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1. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. - eyeblinking in response to bright light.






2. Programs that address the needs of students with mental - emotional - or physical disabilities.






3. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive learning principles for changing your own behavior by using self-talk and self-instruction.






4. Evaluating conclusions by logically and systematically examining the problem - the evidence - and the solution.






5. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.






6. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






7. 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.






8. A question or a partial statement in a test item that is completed by one of several choices.






9. A program that provides one-to-one tutoring from specially trained teachers to first-graders who are not reading adequately.






10. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






11. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.






12. In Piaget's theory - a concept achieved during the concrete operational stage that involves ordering items by two or more attributes - such as by both size and color.






13. 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






14. The motivation or will to make something happen - to reach one's goal.






15. Sensitivity to natural objects - like plants/animals; making fine sensory discrimination.






16. Learning of words or facts under various conditions.






17. Bloom's ordering of objectives from simple learning tasks to more complex ones.






18. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to use internal speech to guide them through a task in a step-by-step manner; see inner speech.






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






20. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade






21. Rules are set down by others.






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






23. Interpreting new experiences in relation to existing schemes.






24. The ability to use the target language appropriately in various social situations. This includes knowing the target culture well enough to appreciate subtle socio-cultural differences in social interactions.






25. A teaching method effective with children having an attention deficit disorder that combines educational support - psychological counseling - behavioral management at school and home - and medical management using a psychostimulant.






26. A term used by Piaget to describe how children mold new information to fit their existing schemes in order to better adapt to their environment; contrast with accommodation.






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






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






29. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






30. Obtained custody of wild boy and launched an involved program to civilize and educate him; important classic in the education of individuals with mental retardation






31. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






32. Mental patterns that guide behavior.






33. 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






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






35. 3 to 6 yrs.; Goal is for child to explore her world so she can understand who she is within this context. Failure to reach this leads child to experience a sense of guilt about her desires to explore - which could limit her willingness to take chance






36. 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.






37. Associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to evoke a conditioned response.






38. 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.






39. Socioemotional and behavioral disorders indicated in individuals who - for example - are chronically disobedient or disruptive.






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






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






42. 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.






43. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).






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






45. Teachers should expose students to a variety of other models - students must believe that they are capable of accomplishing school tasks






46. A psychological movement - started in Germany - that advanced the understanding of perception.






47. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






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






49. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.






50. A subconscious process in which learners develop competence by using language for 'real communication.' This is often contrasted with taking courses to learn language.






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