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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Child often tilts head/rubs eyes; has eyes that are red - inflamed - crusty - or water excessively; has trouble reading small print/can't discriminate letters; complains of dizziness/headaches after reading.






2. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






3. One of three types of knowledge as described by Piaget; knowing the attributes of objects such as their number - color - size - and shape; knowledge is acquired by acting on objects - experimenting - and observing reactions.






4. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.






5. Having students listen for specific information.






6. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






7. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with






8. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






9. Theory that information is stored in long-term memory in networks of connected facts and concepts that provide a structure for making sense of new information.






10. Parents who mix firm guidance with respect and warmth toward their children.






11. Mental retardation.






12. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






14. A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development.






15. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.






16. The increase in levels of behavior in the early stages of extinction.






17. 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.






18. Students: 1) think about the lesson topic; 2) pair up with partners and share according to the guidelines the teacher has provided; 3) share their discussions with the rest of the class. Each person takes a turn retelling their partners' information.






19. Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical or number patterns; ability to handle long bits of reasoning.






20. The application of knowledge and skills to achieve certain goals.






21. Socioemotional and behavioral disorders indicated in individuals who - for example - are chronically disobedient or disruptive.






22. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






23. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.






24. Founding father; believed the security of the republic lay in proper education.






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






26. A systematic linguistic analysis of the structures of the learners' native and target languages. Contrastive analysis can be performed at different levels of language--sound - lexicon - grammar - meaning - and rhetoric.






27. A statement of information or tasks that students should master after one or more lessons.






28. 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






29. 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.






30. Has three interlocking unities: the oneness of God (monotheism); the oneness of his prophets or messengers (religious perennialism); and the oneness of humanity (equality - globalism).






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






32. A measure of the ability of a test to predict future behavior.






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






34. An apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






35. A teaching method that includes evaluation of students improvement relative to past achievement.






36. Learning strategies for learning.






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






38. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular responce






39. Process by which thoroughly learned tasks can be performed with little mental effort.






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






41. State that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising them when they no longer work.






42. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.






43. Establishment Clause prohibits the establishment of a national religion.






44. Educational needs teach religion & 3 R's - have a literate citizenship that could read the bible






45. 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.






46. Critical issue accompanying each of Erickson's 8 stages of development that a person must address as they pass through the stage. Failure to do so may keep person from being successful in later stages.






47. A model based on the idea that information is processed simultaneously in the sensory register - short-term memory - and long-term memory.






48. Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without it.






49. An approach to learning which purports that children must construct their own understandings of the world in which they live. Teachers guide this process through focusing attention - posing questions - and stretching children's thinking; information






50. 1990 A wide-ranging civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability; covers employment - transportation - building accessibility - transportation - etc.