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Elementary Teaching

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1. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






2. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components






3. A person's interpretation of stimuli.






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






5. Policy or practice of placing all students in regular classes with appropriate assistance.






6. 1875 Court upheld Michigan school officials' attempts to collect public funds for the support of a village high school to provide a secondary education for all males = set precedent for public funding of high schools.






7. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.






8. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.






9. Teaching Methods Lecture; questioning; coaching students in critical thinking skills.






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






11. In Gardner's theory of intelligence - a person's seven separate






12. A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development.






13. 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 These supports are gradually withdrawn as the student masters the task - thus transferring more and more autonomy to the child.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






14. Inducement of students to go along with the instructional goals of the teacher - usually fostered by helping students realize how a particular type of learning will help them.






15. 1983 National Commission on Excellence in education report; called for greater federal support of education because the nation was threatened by "a rising tide of mediocrity: - calls for educational reform based on the development of standards-b

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16. 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.)






17. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






18. Research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable - provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language - grade essays without regard for who






19. 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.






20. Parents who give their children great freedom.






21. Experiment conducted under realistic conditions in which individuals are assigned by chance to receive different practical treatments or programs.






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






23. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






24. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have






25. The mechanism by which second language learners process - store - and retrieve conscious language rules.






26. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.






27. Students' readiness to begin a lesson.






28. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.






29. Spanish monk; successful in teaching a small group of pupils who were deaf to speak - read - and write






30. Clear statement of what students are intended to learn through instruction.






31. Adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis






32. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.

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33. Defines intelligence as 'the capacity to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural settings.' 8 intelligences - everyone has all 8 - but in different proportions. You can strengthen your weaker areas.

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34. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education






35. Students: 1) think about the lesson topic; 2) pair up with partners and share according to the guidelines the teacher has provided; 3) share their discussions with the rest of the class. Each person takes a turn retelling their partners' information.






36. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






37. The fundamental assumption of the common school movement is 'the public school would be an agent of moral/social redemption that resulted from nonsectarian religious instruction'; exposed evils associated with this movement.






38. Study of a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - and after the treatment is applied.






39. Teacher's Role (Same as for Perennialism) Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions






40. Students who are likely to be low-achieving or 3at risk2 for school failure.






41. Decreased ability to recall previously learned information causedby learning of new information.






42. Strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






43. 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.






44. Mild to moderate mental retardation; attention disorders; behavioral problems






45. Structured lessons that students can work on individually - at their own pace.






46. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






47. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.






48. Can make a copy for the class - but not personal use






49. Sometimes decision need to be made quickly - and there is not time for reflection

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50. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.







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