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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to attribute intentional states and human characteristics to inanimate objects.






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 (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the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






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






4. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






5. Learning Environment (Same as Perennialism) High structure; high levels of on task time.






6. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






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






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






9. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






10. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






11. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






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






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






14. 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.






15. Disorder in ability to control movements caused by damage to the motor area of the brain






16. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.






17. 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.)






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






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






20. Estimated one in 500-700 babies born each year with some degree of alcohol-related damage/defect- alcohol can damage the central nervous system of fetus and brain damage is not uncommon.






21. Limited to presented options - common on standardized achievement tests






22. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






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






24. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






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






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27. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.






28. When a learner makes the same error repeatedly - without explicit outside correction - they reach the point where they never 'hear' the error. The speaker assumes his or her way of speaking is correct.






29. Serious/Persistent age-inappropriate behaviors resulting in social conflict - as well as problems in school and personal concept. Caused by make-up of the child - family disfunction/mistreatment - and/or underlying learning disability.






30. Time during which students have the opportunity to learn.






31. Student has limited strength - vitality - or alertness that results in limited alertness due to chronic/acute health problems (e.g. - heart condition - diabetes - etc.) that can adversely affect student's academic performance






32. P.L. 94-142






33. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.






34. Exceptional learning needs.






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






36. Tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts






37. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention.






38. The application of behavioral learning principles to understand and change behavior.






39. Almost all girls begin menstruation by age 13 - most girls reach their adult stature by age 16






40. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.






41. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.






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






43. Cognitive style in which separate parts of a pattern are perceived and analyzed.






44. Wrote anti-papism literature influencing exclusion of Catholic schools from public funding






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






46. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






47. 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.






48. Presence of sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with or resulting in impairments in adaptive behavior; occurs before age of 18






49. Giving a clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior.






50. 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.