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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made






2. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.






3. The ability to use language to learn academic content. (Including using spoken & written English to do assignments - interact with teachers - and communicate with native-English-speaking peers.)






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






5. The motivation or will to make something happen - to reach one's goal.






6. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






7. System of instruction that emphasizes the achievement of instructional objectives by all students by allowing learning time to vary.






8. The kinds of difficulties a majority of children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including argumentative - aggressive - antisocial - and destructive actions; contrast with internalizing problems.






9. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.






10. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli






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






12. Goal is to establish and guide the 'next' generation and help others. Failure to do so may lead to stagnation - self-indulgence - and selfishness.






13. Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes - difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities






14. Descriptive term for students who have limited mastery of English.






15. The speech or writing that a learner produces in a target language






16. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






17. 1950s High schools expected to teach "life skills" - especially for students not planning to attend post high school training/education.






18. 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-






19. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






20. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention.






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






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






23. A consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape






24. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals






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






26. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c






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






28. A concept in Vygotsky's theory regarding children's potential for intellectual growth rather than their actual level of development; the gap between what children can do on their own and what they can do with the assistance of others.






29. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.






30. Teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.






31. Curriculum Emphasis placed on the works of marginalized people.






32. History Industrialization - immigration - and westward expansion lead to many social problems. Solution? An educated - moral citizenry that could participate in democratic decision-making and contribute to the nation's economy.






33. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






34. Approach to teaching in which lessons are goal-oriented and structured by the teacher.






35. Refers to problems in communication and related areas such as oral motor function; inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional speech and feeding;






36. 1819 Jurisdictional dispute between the college's president and board of trustees led to a Supreme Court ruling favoring the educational freedom of private institutions (which is what colleges are considered to be)






37. Established a school for individuals who were blind in Paris






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






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






40. A school situation in which a child's needs clash with the learning and behavioral expectations of the educational system.






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






42. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






43. Federal law P.L. 101-476 enacted in 1990 changing the name of P.L. 94-142 and broadening services to adolescents with disabilities.






44. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.






45. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






46. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of all students.






47. Memorization of facts or associations.






48. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close






49. Knowledge about one's own thinking; involves an understanding of how memory works - what tasks require more cognitive effort - and what strategies facilitate learning; plays an important role in children's cognitive development during the middle chil






50. Ability to access one's own feelings/abilities to discriminate among them and draw on them to guide behavior; knowledge of one's own strengths - weaknesses - desires and intelligences.