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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Piaget's term for children's inconsistency in thinking within a developmental stage; explains why - for instance - children do not learn conservation tasks about numbers and volume at the same time.






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 (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the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. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






4. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.






5. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.






6. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.






7. Evaluating information from a variety of sources and applying observations of one's own practice back into instructional planning.






8. Standard score having a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 1.






9. The age of an individual in years.






10. Methods - such as questions - that help teachers find out if students understand a lesson.






11. A reward that is external to the activity - such as recognition or a good grade.






12. 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.






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






14. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.






15. Curriculum Emphasis placed on the works of marginalized people.






16. Specific behaviors students are expected to exhibit at the end of a series of lessons.






17. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






18. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child






19. A measure of the match between the content of a test and the content of the instruction that preceded it.






20. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability






21. The kinds of difficulties a majority of children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including argumentative - aggressive - antisocial - and destructive actions; contrast with internalizing problems.






22. Good behavior is what pleases/helps others and is approved of by them = can earn approval by being nice.






23. One student teaching another.






24. These determine the child's ability to reason about social situations. Development occurs in predictable. before age 6 - child plays by her own idiosyncratic rules.






25. Way of perceiving - believing evaluating and behaving






26. Consequence given to strengthen behavior.






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






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






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






30. Piaget's concept that refers to our innate tendency of self-regulation to keep our mental representations in balance by adjusting them to maintain organization and stability in our environment through the processes of accommodation and*assimilation.






31. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have






32. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.






33. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances - a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression - a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems






34. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of






35. Deaf students.






36. 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






37. Vygotsky's term for the process of constructing a mental representation of external physical actions or cognitive operations that first occur through social interaction.






38. Memorization of facts or associations.






39. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






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






41. Revealed prejudicial side of common school movement






42. Compensatory education programs in which students are placed in separate classes for remediation.






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






44. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f






45. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.






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






47. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.






48. 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.






49. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.






50. The Guru Granth Sahib is a sacred text