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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Person defines her own values in terms of the ethical principles she has elected to follow.






2. 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).






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






4. 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.






5. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.






6. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.






7. Good behavior is what pleases/helps others and is approved of by them = can earn approval by being nice.






8. The period of life from 2 to 7 years old when - Piaget believed - children demonstrate an increased ability to use symbols (gestures - words - numbers) to represent real objects in their environment.






9. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.






10. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.






11. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.






12. During the period of life between 11 and 12 years of age and onward during which - Piaget believed - children begin to apply formal rules of logic and to gain the ability to think abstractly and reflectively; thinking shifts from the real to the poss






13. A condition that follows a behavior and affects the frequency of future behavior.






14. An activity acting out situations encountered in the classroom or in everyday life - using the language that might be used in such situations






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






16. Did not require bilingual ed.






17. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability






18. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






19. Help individuals self-correct behaviors and ideas - empower learners to take ownership of ideas






20. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the environment/routine; more pr






21. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.






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






23. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to low scores on another.






24. Educational Goals Train students' intellect and moral development.






25. Values computed from raw scores that relate students1 performances to those of a norming group; examples are percentiles and grade equivalents.






26. Capacity to accurately perceive the visual-spatial world; ability to perform transformations on one's initial perceptions.






27. A theory that emphasizes the active integration of new material with existing schemata.






28. The application of knowledge acquired in one situation to new situations.






29. Something that can have more than one value.






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






31. 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.






32. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






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






34. 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.






35. Consequence given to strengthen behavior.






36. The goals students must reach to be considered proficient in a skill.






37. Sub-average intellectual functioning existing concurrently with related limitations in 2 or more of the following: communication; self-care; home living; social skills; community use; self-direction; health/safety; functional academics; leisure; work






38. Theory that emphasizes learning through observation of others.






39. A measure of the degree to which a test is appropriate for its intended use.






40. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.






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






42. 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.






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






44. The many small skills needed in a larger course of action.






45. Methods - such as questions - that help teachers find out if students understand a lesson.






46. Educational activities that are given to students who initially fail to master an objective; designed to increase the number of students who master educational objectives.






47. Goal is to create and maintain long-term friendships & sexual relationships. Failure may cause person to shy away from future relationships.






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






49. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule.






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






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