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Elementary Teaching

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1. A Piagetian concept that develops during the preoperational stage in which children gain the ability to use words to stand for real objects.






2. 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.






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






4. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.






5. Stages 3 and 4 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.






6. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c






7. Behavior associated with one sex as opposed to the other.






8. Down syndrome - autism - developmental disability - schizophrenia - anxiety disorders - bipolar disorder (manic depression) - anorexia - post traumatic stress disorder - print disability - hearing impairment - physical disability






9. A lifelong developmental disability that is neurologically based and affects the functioning of the brain; disabilities vary from mild to severe and include deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication - problems with reciprocal social interaction






10. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.






11. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.






12. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






13. Characterized by a lower than normal level of intelligence and developmental delays in specific adaptive behavior.






14. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them.






15. Category of exceptionality characterized by problems with learning - interpersonal relationships - and control of feelings and behavior.






16. Runs about or climbs excessively in situation in which it is inappropriate - has difficulty playing or engaging in leisure activities quietly - talks excessively






17. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






18. A cooperative learning model that involves students with four- or five-member heterogenous groups on assignments.






19. 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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. Birth to 18 mo.; Goal is to develop a basic sense of trust in others and a sense of one's own trustworthiness. failure to reach this goal results in a sense of mistrust in others/the world.






25. A discussion among four to six students in a group working independently of a teacher.






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






27. Decreased ability to learn new information because of interference of present knowledge.






28. 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.






29. Memorization of facts or associations.






30. A personality trait that concerns whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal factors or to external factors.






31. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






32. Ability to make rational decisions about what to do or what to believe.






33. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






34. Mental retardation.






35. Difficulty scoring - requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning - depends on writing ability






36. Renowned scientist who founded wild boy






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






38. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






39. Characterized by significantly different psychosocial development from one's peers - including hyperactivity - aggression - withdrawal - immaturity - and learning difficulties.






40. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






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






42. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






43. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






44. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text






45. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.






46. 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.






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






48. 1958 Passed in response to the Russian launch of Sputnik satellite; appropriated federal funds to improve education in areas considered crucial to national defense/security: math - foreign language - and science.






49. Teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.






50. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.







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