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Elementary Teaching

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






2. Forms of epilepsy.






3. 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.






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






5. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.






6. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






7. 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.






8. Teacher's Role (Same as for Perennialism) Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions






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






10. A skill learned during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in which individuals can mentally arrange and compare objects.






11. Assessment Frequent objective and essay tests.






12. Difficulties producing speech sounds or problems with voice quality; interruption in the flow of rhythm of speech (e.g. - stuttering)






13. Teen's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choice instead of her own. A pseudo-identity that is too fixed/rigid to serve as a foundation for meeting life's challenges.






14. An understanding and appreciation of students' personal attributes - experiences - their cultures and communities - and how all this fits in with their learning.






15. Facial abnormalities; heart defects; low birth weight; motor dysfunctions






16. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






17. The language - attitudes - ways of behaving - and other aspects of life that characterize a group of people.






18. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior.






19. Disorder in ability to control movements caused by damage to the motor area of the brain






20. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.






21. A response to a question made by an entire class in unison.






22. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






23. Impairment in student's ability to understand language (receptive language disorder) or to express ideas (expressive language disorder) in one's native language. If not result of physical problem/lack of experience - indicates a LD or mental retardat






24. 18 mo to 3 yrs.; Goal is to gain the ability to do things for oneself. failure to gain a sense of autonomy leads to a sense of powerlessness/incompetence. Child may begin to doubt her abilities & feel guilty when she tries to show some independence.






25. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






26. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.






27. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.






28. Teaching Methods Lecture; questioning; coaching students in critical thinking skills.






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






30. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or a situation.






31. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






32. Theory that emphasizes learning through observation of others.






33. People who are equal in age or status.






34. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






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






36. 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.






37. A personality trait that concerns whether people attribute responsibility for their own failure or success to internal factors or to external factors.






38. 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.






39. Deals abstractly with hypothetical situations and reason.






40. Assessment Collaborative between teacher and student; emphasis is on the exposure of hidden assumptions.






41. Strategy for memorization in which images are used to link lists of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






42. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions asked during the course of a lesson.






43. Piaget's term for an infant's understanding during the sensorimotor stage that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen or acted on.






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






45. When a learner makes the same error repeatedly - without explicit outside correction - they reach the point where they never 'hear' the error. The speaker assumes his or her way of speaking is correct.






46. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.






47. Learning by observing others' behavior.






48. 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.






49. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






50. The age of an individual in years.