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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Memorization of facts or associations.






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






3. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.






4. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.






5. Educational Implications (1)rigorous intellectual curriculum for all students. (2) Focus on math - science - and literature = logical thought/enduring ideas. (3) Goal = students develop intellectual skills in writing - speaking - computing - problem-






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






7. Signal as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished.






8. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.






9. Another term for short-term memory.






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






11. Educational Goals Students need to acquire the ability to function in the real world and to develop problem-solving skills.






12. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.






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






14. 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.






15. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






16. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the environment/routine; more pr






17. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits






18. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






20. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior






21. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






22. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






23. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.






24. The study of learning and teaching.






25. A cooperative learning model in which students are assigned to six-member teams to work on academic material that has been broken down into sections for each member.






26. 1973 Supreme Court ruled that reliance on property taxes to fund public schools does not violate Equal Protection Clause - even if it causes inter-district expenditure disparities.






27. The study of animal behavior with emphasis on the behavioral patterns that occur in natural environments; animals are born with a set of fixed action patterns such as imprinting






28. An undesirable characteristic of tests in which item content discriminates against certain students on the basis of socioeconomic status - race - ethnicity - or gender.






29. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






30. Program in which rewards or punishments are given to a class as a whole for adhering to or violating rules of conduct.






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.






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






36. Education of All Handicapped Children Act.






37. Achievement






38. 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.






39. Described educators of the early 20th century as educational missionaries






40. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






41. The average test score received by individuals of a given chronological age.






42. 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






43. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






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






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






46. Teaching methods in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves.






47. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.






48. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






49. Developmental disability affecting social interactions - verbal/nonverbal communication - and educational performance. Generally evident before the age of 3 years.






50. Learning by observation and imitation of others.