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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Peer tutoring between an older and a younger student.






2. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






3. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others






4. Program in which rewards or punishments are given to a class as a whole for adhering to or violating rules of conduct.






5. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






7. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences.






8. Educational Implications (1) Emphasis on basic skills/certain academic subjects students must master. (2) the graduation of a literate/skilled workforce. (3) Curriculum must change to meet societal changes.






9. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.






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






11. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t






12. Person defines her own values in terms of the ethical principles she has elected to follow.






13. 1950s High schools expected to teach "life skills" - especially for students not planning to attend post high school training/education.






14. The ability to use language to learn academic content. (Including using spoken & written English to do assignments - interact with teachers - and communicate with native-English-speaking peers.)






15. 1983 National Commission on Excellence in education report; called for greater federal support of education because the nation was threatened by "a rising tide of mediocrity: - calls for educational reform based on the development of standards-b


16. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






17. Study of a treatment's effect on one person or one group by contrasting behavior before - during - and after the treatment is applied.






18. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.






19. A task requiring recall of a list of items in any order.






20. Made an identity commitment - but not explored identity.






21. Sensitivity to natural objects - like plants/animals; making fine sensory discrimination.






22. Programs designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






23. General patterns of behavior used by parents when dealing with their children.






24. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






25. Visible - genetic characteristics of individuals that cause them to be seen as members of the same broad group (e.g. - African - Asian - Caucasian).






26. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






27. 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






28. Rapid promotion through advanced studies for students who are gifted or talented.






29. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many way to reach those standards.






30. Rules are set down by others.






31. Mild form of autism; may have concomitant learning disabilities and/or poor motor skills.


32. The expectation - based on experience - that one1s actions will ultimately lead to failure.






33. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






34. Applications of microcomputers that provide students with practice of skills and knowledge.






35. Information on the results of one1s efforts.






36. Decreasing the chances that a behavior will occur again by removing a pleasant stimulus following the behavior.






37. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.






38. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.






39. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response






40. 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).






41. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






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






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






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






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






46. Category of exceptionality characterized by being very bright - creative - or talented.






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






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






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






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