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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The kinds of problems some children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including depression - withdrawal - anxiety - and obsession; contrast with externalizing problems.






2. Programs that combine children of different ages in the same class - generally at the primary level.






3. Test item usually consisting of a stem followed by choices - or alternatives.






4. Play in which children join together to achieve a common goal.






5. Teacher's Role Facilitate discussions that involve clarifying issues.






6. Different views of males and females - often favoring one gender over the other.






7. The process of focusing on certain stimuli while screening others out.






8. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






9. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.






10. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






11. Curriculum Emphasis is on basic skills.






12. 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.






13. Long - narrow face; large ears' prominent forehead; large head circumference; testicles enlarged at puberty in males






14. Forms of epilepsy.






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






16. Demographics Culturally/Religiously homogenous - Puritan






17. Behavior associated with one sex as opposed to the other.






18. Exceptional learning needs.






19. Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. The public loss of confidence in education






23. Absolute grading based on criteria for mastery.






24. Mental processing of new information leading to its linkage with previously learned knowledge.






25. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






26. Refers to problems in communication and related areas such as oral motor function; inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional speech and feeding;






27. 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






28. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their sensesand motor skills.






29. Modeling provides an alternative to shaping for teaching new behaviors - teachers & parents must model appropriate behaviors and take care that they don't model inappropriate ones






30. A wide range and varying degrees of characteristics children exhibit that classify them as exceptional and require special accommodations for learning situations






31. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






32. Learning Environment High structure - high levels of time on task.






33. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.






34. A special program that is the subject of an experiment.






35. 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.






36. A person1s desire to develop to his or her full potential.






37. Degree of deafness; uncorrectable inability to hear well.






38. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.






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






40. The motivation or will to make something happen - to reach one's goal.






41. 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






42. Formerly Chapter 1 - compensatory programs that were reauthorized as Title 1 of the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) in 1994.






43. Study aimed at identifying and gathering detailed information about something of interest.






44. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






45. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).






46. A cooperative learning model that involves small groups in which students work using cooperative inquiry - planning - project - and group discussion - then make a presentation on their findings to the class.






47. Comprehensive measure of achievement






48. Almost all girls begin menstruation by age 13 - most girls reach their adult stature by age 16






49. 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.






50. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.