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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Standards derived from giving a test to a sample of people similar to those who will take the test and that can be used to interpret scores of future test takers.






2. 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.






3. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






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






5. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






6. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






7. Knowledge about one's own thinking; involves an understanding of how memory works - what tasks require more cognitive effort - and what strategies facilitate learning; plays an important role in children's cognitive development during the middle chil






8. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.






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






10. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.






11. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania






12. Impairment in student's ability to understand language (receptive language disorder) or to express ideas (expressive language disorder) in one's native language. If not result of physical problem/lack of experience - indicates a LD or mental retardat






13. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by presenting an aversive stimulus following the behavior.






14. An approach to instruction and school organization that clearly specifies what students should know and be able to do at the end of a course of study.






15. Meichenbaum's developmental program that helps children control and regulate their behavior; children are taught self-regulatory strategies to use as a verbal tool to inhibit impulses - control impulses and frustration - and promote reflection.






16. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






17. Classes or curricula targeted for students of a specified achievement or ability level.






18. Difficulty in maintaining attention because of limited ability to concentrate accompanied by impulsive actions/hyperactive behavior = may have marked academic - behavior - and social problems stemming from inability to pay attention.






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






20. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching






21. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.

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22. Research into the relationships between variables as they naturally occur.






23. Assessments that follow instruction and evaluate knowledge or skills.






24. Goal was to prevent Catholic schools from receiving state and tax-payer funding for schools and ensuring that only the Protestant bible was used in schools.






25. Upper-slant eyes; short stature; flat nose; somewhat smaller ears/nose; enlarged - sometimes protruding tongue; short fingers; reduced muscle tones; single (Simean) crease across palm of the hand






26. List of instructional objectives and expected levels of understanding that guide test development.






27. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits






28. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






29. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky during which children begin to use speech to regulate their behavior and thinking through spoken aloud self-verbalizations; contrast with social speech and inner speech.






30. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






31. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






32. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






33. Teen has made her own conscious - autonomous - clear-cut decisions about an occupation and ideology that reflects who she is & a deep commitment to these decisions






34. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements that teachers can directly control.






35. Instruction given to students having difficulty learning.






36. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






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






38. Teachers required to use the same judgement/care as parents in protecting the children under their supervision.






39. Concomitant hearing and visual impairments which cause severe communication & other developmental/learning needs that student can't be educated in special education programs for students with hearing impairmenets/severe disabilities effectively.






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






41. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






42. Another term for short-term memory.






43. Education of All Handicapped Children Act.






44. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.






45. The degree to which people are held responsible for their task performances or decision outcomes.






46. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






47. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule.






48. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. - eyeblinking in response to bright light.






49. 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).






50. Signal as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished.