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Elementary Teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Arranging objects in sequential order according to one aspect - such as size - weight - or volume.
social knowledge
Discipline
Seriation
collective monologue
2. An approach to learning which purports that children must construct their own understandings of the world in which they live. Teachers guide this process through focusing attention - posing questions - and stretching children's thinking; information
constructivist approach
Developmentally appropriate education
Short-term memory
Least restrictive environment
3. Down syndrome - autism - developmental disability - schizophrenia - anxiety disorders - bipolar disorder (manic depression) - anorexia - post traumatic stress disorder - print disability - hearing impairment - physical disability
Intellectual Disability
Group contingencies
Parallel distributed processing
Emotional and Behavior Disorders (EBD)
4. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.
Critical thinking
True-false item
Individualized instruction
Extinction
5. 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.
Intellectual Disability
Orthopedic Impairments
Maintenance
Jigsaw
6. Did not require bilingual ed.
Cognitive behavior modification
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
Portfolio assessment
Reading Recovery
7. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.
top-down processing
Progressivism
Accommodation
There are this many categories of exceptionality in which students aged 6-21 are served under IDEA?
8. Display acceptance of student; never finish student's sentence or allow others to do so; don't put student in high-pressure situation in which they must respond quickly in a verbal manner.
Progressivism
Parallel play
intrinsic motivation
Working with students with speech disorders
9. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
Moratorium Status
Parallel play
Authoritative parents
Pedro Ponce de Leon
10. Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes - difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities
Concrete operational stage
Essentialism
Expectancy-valence model
Inattention
11. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.
Neutral stimuli
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Random Assignment
Allocated time
12. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.
Heteronomous morality
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
Metacognition
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
13. The distinction between conversational fluency (basic interpersonal communication skills - or BICS) - and academic language (cognitive/academic language proficiency - or CALP).
BICS/CALP
Aptitude test
Essentialism
Reflectivity
14. Loses things necessary for tasks or activities - easily distracted by extraneous stimuli - forgetful in daily activities
intrinsic motivation
John Joseph Hughes
Inattention
Essentialism
15. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.
Post-Conventional Level
circular reactions
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Characteristics of Autism
16. An explanation of the discomfort people feel when new perceptions or behaviors clash with long-held beliefs.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Cognitive dissonance theory
Regrouping
Middle Colonies
17. Supported complete state control of democratic school systems
Time out
new age religion
Discovery learning
Edward C. Cubberley
18. 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
Neutral stimuli
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome could result in . . .
Other Health Impairments
social speech
19. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.
Growth needs
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome could result in . . .
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection
Self-esteem
20. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.
Inert knowledge
Critical Thinking
cognitive behavior modification
Corrective instruction
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.
matrix classification
Post-Conventional Level
Inattention
Lloyd P. Jorgensen
22. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.
Full inclusion
propositional logic
Physical Characteristics of Down Syndrome
Erik Erickson Foreclosure
23. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).
Formative Assessment
Race
Functional fixedness
Performance assessment
24. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement
Variable-interval schedule
think - pair - share
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
extinction
25. Exceptional learning needs.
Object permanence
Linguistic Intelligence
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
Assimilation
26. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.
Punishment
Psychosocial crisis
Aptitude test
Discovery learning
27. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.
Vicarious learning
Interpersonal Intelligence
Vision Impairments
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
28. A strategy that allows students to practice speaking and listening by sharing information with a variety of partners.
manpower Development and Training Act
Summative evaluation
inside-outside circle
Content validity
29. A model based on the idea that information is processed simultaneously in the sensory register - short-term memory - and long-term memory.
Parallel distributed processing
Bernard Bailyn
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
30. IDEA
Wait time
hierarchial classification
Nongraded programs (cross-age grouping programs)
Defines special education as specially designed instruction.
31. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.
Nonverbal cues
Formal operational thought
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
reflective abstraction
32. Facial abnormalities; heart defects; low birth weight; motor dysfunctions
Tracks
Procedural memory
Asperger's Syndrome
Physical characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
33. Important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.
Valid reasons for assessing students
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Flashbulb memory
summative assessment
34. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not on his or her own
Alexander Graham Bell
Meaningful learning
Foreclosure
Learning disabilities (LD)
35. Articulation problems occurring most frequently among children in the early elementary school grades.
Stimuli
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
Speech disorders
True-false item
36. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.
Norm-Referenced Tests
Perennialism
communicative competence
Multifactor aptitude battery
37. The unique pattern of strengths and needs related to each child's physical - cognitive - social - and emotional growth; see interindividual variation.
microskills
Learning Disability (LD)
intraindividual variation
Massed practice
38. Term for native speakers of any language other than English.
Cross-age tutoring
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Language minority
Self-regulated learners
39. Teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.
Individualized instruction
Moral dilemmas
Task analysis
Readiness training
40. 1950s High schools expected to teach "life skills" - especially for students not planning to attend post high school training/education.
punishment
Low Vision
Interference
Life Adjustment Movement
41. Education of All Handicapped Children Act.
Withitness
Progressivism
In 1975 - Congress enacted a federal law known as Public Law (P.L.) 94-142 or the
academic competence
42. Relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured
Reinforcer
Reliability
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Small muscle development
43. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.
Gestalt psychology
Advance organizers
Conduct disorders
hierarchial classification
44. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.
Critical Thinking
Collaboration
Discipline
horizontal decalage
45. 12
Analogies
There are this many categories of exceptionality in which students aged 6-21 are served under IDEA?
Information-processing theory
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
46. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.
Imagery
Sensory impairments
Physical Characteristics of Down Syndrome
egocentrism
47. A problem-solving technique that encourages identifying the goal (ends) of a problem - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.
Erik Erickson Foreclosure
Constructivist theories of learning
Formative Assessment
Means-end analysis
48. Beginning with processing the higher symbolic and semantic level of meaning of a text and working one's way back to processing the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds).
top-down processing
Formative evaluation
Shaping
Performance assessment
49. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.
Foreclosure
Progressivism
Intelligence quotient
Pegword method
50. Characterized by significantly different psychosocial development from one's peers - including hyperactivity - aggression - withdrawal - immaturity - and learning difficulties.
Mapping
emotional or behavior disorders
Postmodernism
Construct validity