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Elementary Teaching

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1. Goal is for the child to be successful in whatever she does - as success brings a positive sense of self/one's abilities. failure creates a negative self-image.






2. 18 mo to 3 yrs.; Goal is to gain the ability to do things for oneself. failure to gain a sense of autonomy leads to a sense of powerlessness/incompetence. Child may begin to doubt her abilities & feel guilty when she tries to show some independence.






3. Methods for aiding the memory.






4. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.






5. Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled.






6. 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






7. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.






8. The study of learning and teaching.






9. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






10. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






11. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






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






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






14. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






15. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






16. Something that can have more than one value.






17. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.






18. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.

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19. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.






20. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.






21. 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-






22. 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






23. Increased ability to learn new information due to previously acquired information.






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






25. Event that comes before a behavior.






26. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli






27. Mental patterns that guide behavior.






28. Educational performance markedly and adversely affected over a period of time by: inability to build/maintain satisfacory interpersonal relationships; inappropriate types of behavior/feelings; general unhappiness; etc.






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






30. Lack of relationship between two variables.






31. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.






32. Help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability - enable most students to be tested - enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students






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






34. The increase in levels of behavior in the early stages of extinction.






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






36. The kinds of problems some children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including depression - withdrawal - anxiety - and obsession; contrast with externalizing problems.






37. Theory based on the belief that human development occurs through a series of distinct stages.






38. An educational philosophy that emphasizes the integration of reading - writing - and language and communication skills across the curriculum in the context of authentic or real-life materials - problems - and tasks.






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual - sensory - or health factors (academically performing below grade level) - inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers & teachers






44. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.






45. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






46. Way of perceiving - believing evaluating and behaving






47. Movements of the fine muscles of the hand.






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






49. Sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with related limitations in 2 or more of the following: communication; self-care; home living; social skills; community use; self-direction; health/safety; functional academics; leisure; work






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







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