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Elementary Teaching

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






2. Teachers should expose students to a variety of other models - students must believe that they are capable of accomplishing school tasks






3. Mild to moderate mental retardation; attention disorders; behavioral problems






4. 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.






5. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.






6. A question or a partial statement in a test item that is completed by one of several choices.






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






8. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.






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






10. 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






11. Computer programs that teach lessons by varying their content and pace according to student responses.






12. Developmental disability affecting social interactions - verbal/nonverbal communication - and educational performance. Generally evident before the age of 3 years.






13. Opened a school in Paris for individuals who were deaf

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14. Tests of specific skills used to identify students1 needs and to guide instruction.






15. The degree to which an experiment's results can be attributed to the treatment in question - not to other factors.






16. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.






17. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.






18. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components






19. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.






20. A change in an individual that results from experience.






21. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






22. Students' readiness to begin a lesson.






23. A task requiring recall of a list of items in any order.






24. Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.






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






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27. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






28. A strategy that allows students to practice speaking and listening by sharing information with a variety of partners.






29. Assessments that follow instruction and evaluate knowledge or skills.






30. Problems with the ability to receive information through the body1s senses.






31. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.






32. Score designated as the minimum necessary to demonstrate mastery of a subject.






33. Educational Implications (1)rigorous intellectual curriculum for all students. (2) Focus on math - science - and literature = logical thought/enduring ideas. (3) Goal = students develop intellectual skills in writing - speaking - computing - problem-






34. Dispensing reinforcement following an unpredictable number of correct behaviors.






35. 1973 Supreme Court ruled that reliance on property taxes to fund public schools does not violate Equal Protection Clause - even if it causes inter-district expenditure disparities.






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






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






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






40. Goal is for the child to be successful in whatever she does - as success brings a positive sense of self/one's abilities. failure creates a negative self-image.






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






42. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






43. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.






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






45. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.






46. Environmental conditions that activate the senses.






47. 1935 Provided economic relief during the Great Depression and training to adult males to prepare them for work in the needed sectors.






48. Absolute grading based on criteria for mastery.






49. 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.






50. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things.