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Elementary Teaching

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1. Classes or curricula targeted for students of a specified achievement or ability level.






2. Religion Wide variety of religious beliefs practiced






3. Students who are subject to school failure because of characteristics of the student or inadequate responses to their needs by school - family - or community.






4. The tendency to think about - see - and understand the world from one's own perspective; an inability to see objects or situations from another's perspective.






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






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






7. Child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life; the brain continues to develop fast than any other part of the body - up to 90% of its adult weight;






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






9. Refers to substantial limitations in present functioning manifests before the age of 18.






10. Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm - pitch - and timbre; appreciation of the forms of musical expression






11. A term used by Piaget to describe how children mold new information to fit their existing schemes in order to better adapt to their environment; contrast with accommodation.






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






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






14. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






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






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






17. 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






18. The process of focusing on certain stimuli while screening others out.






19. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.






20. An acquired injury to the brain caused by external physical force - resulting in a total/partialfunctional disability - psychosocial impairment - or both - that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






21. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self; adolescent has few commitments to goals and values - and seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an identity crisis has been experienced - it has not been resolved






22. The mechanism by which second language learners process - store - and retrieve conscious language rules.






23. Programs designed to prepare disadvantaged children for entry into kindergarten and first grade.






24. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate - and solve problems.






25. Sensitivity to the sounds - rhythms - and meanings of words; sensitivity to the different functions of language.






26. (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.

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27. The mental tendency to organize perceptions so they make sense.






28. A part of long-term memory that stores images of our personal experiences.






29. Meichenbaum's developmental program that helps children control and regulate their behavior; children are taught self-regulatory strategies to use as a verbal tool to inhibit impulses - control impulses and frustration - and promote reflection.






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






31. 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.






32. The ability to perform a mental operation and then reverse one's thinking to return to the starting point.






33. 1962 mandated funding to educate thousands of people unemployed because of automation/technological advances so they would be marketable in these fields.






34. 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.






35. An approach to learning which purports that children must construct their own understandings of the world in which they live. Teachers guide this process through focusing attention - posing questions - and stretching children's thinking; information






36. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






37. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






38. Requires student to supply rather than to select the answer






39. A mental operation learned during the concrete operational stage that allows children to organize concepts and objects according to how they relate to one another in a building-block fashion. For example - all matter is composed of molecules and mole






40. 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'.






41. 14 years - for at least 3 months each year (with 6 weeks having to be consecutive).






42. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.






43. One of two basic principles referred to by Piaget as invariant functions; the ability of all organisms to adapt their mental representations or behavior to fit environmental demands; contrast with organization.






44. 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.






45. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.






46. A test designed to measure general abilities and to predict future performance.






47. Methods for learning. studying. or solving problems.






48. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






49. Livelihood Industry/Commerce = most lived in towns






50. Teacher's Role Deliver clear lectures; increase students' understanding with critical questions.






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