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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






2. Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - does not follow through on instructions & fails to finish schoolwork - chores - or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)






3. Assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores - compute glass grades using standardized test scores - compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes






4. Final evaluations of students' achievement of an objective






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






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






7. An explanation of the discomfort people feel when new perceptions or behaviors clash with long-held beliefs.






8. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






9. Entry or placemet in specific programs and to diagnose learning problems or strengths






10. Event that comes before a behavior.






11. Free Exercise Clause "Freedom of speech" - has been extend to freedom in religious practice






12. Inform decision makers about student behaviors - monitor student progress toward a goal - screen students for specific purposes






13. (Cognitive) a developmental view of how moral reasoning evolves from a low to a high level. Argues that people with low moral level are unable to conceive acts of aggression as being immoral.


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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.






19. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






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






21. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language.






22. Mental retardation.






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






24. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.






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






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






27. In Piaget's theory - the type of knowledge as the mental construction of relationships involved in the concrete operations of seriation - classification - and conservation - as well as various formal operations that emerge in adolescence.






28. Theories that knowledge is stored in the brain in a network of connections - not in systems of rules or individual bits of information.






29. A comprehensive approach to prevention and early intervention for preschool - kindergarten - and grades 1 through 5 - with one-to-one tutoring - family support services - and changes in instruction that might be needed to prevent students from fallin






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






31. List of instructional objectives and expected levels of understanding that guide test development.






32. 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.






33. Stages 5 and 6 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgements in relation to abstract principles.






34. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






35. A pattern of attributing events to factors outside one's control; a characteristic of children with learning disabilities; see locus of causality.






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






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






38. Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching






39. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t






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






41. A person's interpretation of stimuli.






42. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






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






44. 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.






45. Continuation of behavior.






46. Curriculum Emphasis is on enduring ideas.






47. A teaching method effective with children having an attention deficit disorder that combines educational support - psychological counseling - behavioral management at school and home - and medical management using a psychostimulant.






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






49. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






50. Individualized instruction administered by a computer.