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Elementary Teaching
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1. Fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat - leaves seat in classroom or in other situations in which remaining seated is expected
Hyperactivity
inside-outside circle
Validity
Progressivism
2. The language produced by learners in the period before they reach native-like proficiency.
Noah Webster
interlanguage
Cognitive apprenticeship
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
3. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
Direct instruction
collective monologue
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
4. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.
Summative quiz
Noah Webster
Acceleration programs
English as a second language
5. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.
realism
Compulsory Education Act of 1852 (Mass.) mandatory school attendance for children - ages 8
Short-term memory
Vicarious learning
6. Diagramming main ideas and connections between them.
Variable-ratio schedule (VR)
Sensory impairments
Mapping
bottom-up processing
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
Equilibration
Intrinsic incentive
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
metacognition
8. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Authoritative parents
Content validity
9. Goal is to accept one's accomplishments and life as having been worthwhile & come to terms with one's impending death. Failure to do so results in an overwhelming feeling of despair.
Integrity v. Despair Stage Late Adulthood
Law of Effect
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Industry v. Inferiority Stage
10. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of
positive reinforcer
Copying computer programs
Characteristics of Fragile X Syndrome
Acceleration programs
11. Physical consequences of an action is determine whether the action is 'good' or 'bad'.
Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience Orientation
sensorimotor stage
Neutral stimuli
matrix classification
12. 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.
Low Vision
Extrinsic incentive
equilibration
curriculum casualty
13. People can learn by observing the behaviors of others & the outcomes of those behaviors - learning can occur without a change in behavior - the consequences of behavior play a role in learning - cognition (to perceive or understand) plays a role in l
Deficiency needs
General Principles of Social Learning Theory
Vision Impairments
Transfer of learning
14. The premature choice of a role - often done to reinforce self-concept.
Evaluation
Keyword method
Identity foreclosure
Conventional level of morality
15. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior
Field independence
Parallel play
operant conditioning
Removal punishment
16. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.
Problem solving
Behavior modification
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Enrichment programs
17. Relating new concepts to information students already understand.
Interpersonal Intelligence
Analogies
Cognitive development
Whole language
18. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention.
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
Integrity v. Despair Stage Late Adulthood
Rehearsal
Post-Conventional Level
19. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement
Jigsaw
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
extinction
Skinner box
20. Teachers required to use the same judgement/care as parents in protecting the children under their supervision.
Performance goals
Intelligence quotient
Progressivism
In loco parentis "in the place of parents"
21. 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.
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
National Defense Act (NDEA)
Rehearsal
Sign systems
22. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.
Whole-class discussion
Edward C. Cubberley
Puberty in girls
Intrapersonal Intelligence
23. 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
Diagnostic tests
New England Colonies
centration
Learning Disability
24. 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.
Possible signs of vision loss
Self-actualization
Deaf-Blindness
Object permanence
25. Deiceded by state law. Used in Mississippi and other places still!
Post-Conventional Level
Essentialism
Legally Blind
Corpal Punishment
26. Components of memory where large amounts of information can be stored for long periods of time.
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
Field independence
Postmodernism
Long-term memory
27. General patterns of behavior used by parents when dealing with their children.
Experimental Group
Parenting styles
Discipline
Regrouping
28. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c
Concept
Distributed practice
Bilingual education
Low Vision
29. Explored identity - but not made a commitment.
Erik Erickson moratorium
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Stem
Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
30. Component of the memory system where information is received and held for very short periods of time.
Legally Blind
Achievement batteries
Sensory register
Automaticity
31. Programs that target at-risk infants and toddlers to prevent possible later need for remediation.
Early intervention
Seriation
Schemata
affective filter hypothesis
32. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements that teachers can directly control.
Early intervention programs
Word processing
QAIT model
Extrinsic reinforcer
33. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.
physical knowledge
Vision Loss
Perennialism
Refers to a condition that a person has.
34. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.
Within-class ability grouping
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Reliability
Accommodation
35. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.
Time out
Reliability
Early intervention programs
Discrimination
36. Research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable - provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language - grade essays without regard for who
Free-recall learning
realism
shaping
Fair & ethical testing procedures
37. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement
Heteronomous morality
Perennialism
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
Intelligence
38. The adolescent's inability to develop a clear sense of self.
Identity diffusion
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
Private speech
Noah Webster
39. Test item usually consisting of a stem followed by choices - or alternatives.
Retroactive facilitation
Eraut's major criticism of using reflection
Multiple-choice item
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
40. Teacher's Role Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions.
Problem-solving assessment
Moratorium
Programmed instruction
Perennialism
41. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
summative assessment
Random Assignment
Compensatory education
42. 1875 Court upheld Michigan school officials' attempts to collect public funds for the support of a village high school to provide a secondary education for all males = set precedent for public funding of high schools.
Typical of 5 year olds
Kalamazoo Case
Consequence
Pedagogy
43. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.
Pedro Ponce de Leon
change agents
Group alerting
Student Teams-Achievement Divisions(STAD
44. 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.
Inferred reality
Piaget's Theory of Moral Development Cognitive stuctures/abilities develop first
Characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome
Intellectual Disability
45. Educational Goals Students need to acquire the ability to function in the real world and to develop problem-solving skills.
intraindividual variation
Fair & ethical testing procedures
Sex-role behavior
Progressivism
46. The idea of 'public education' was created by historians who were 'educational missionaries.'
Misuses of state-mandated standardized achievement test scores
Derived scores
Inattention
Bernard Bailyn
47. Methods for learning. studying. or solving problems.
Stem
Metacognitive skills
Foreclosure Status
Gestalt psychology
48. The average test score received by individuals of a given chronological age.
Educational Psychology
Mental age
Mental retardation
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
49. Standard score having a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 1.
Associative play
Intimacy v. Isolation Stage Young Adulthood
Perennialism
Z-score
50. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Hyperactivity
Characteristics of Mental Retardation
Self-concept
Distractors
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