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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Impairment in student's ability to understand language (receptive language disorder) or to express ideas (expressive language disorder) in one's native language. If not result of physical problem/lack of experience - indicates a LD or mental retardat






2. 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.






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






4. Assessments that compare the performance of one student against the performance of others.






5. Accommodation changes the nature of the measurement






6. Beginning with processing the higher symbolic and semantic level of meaning of a text and working one's way back to processing the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds).






7. Mild form of autism; may have concomitant learning disabilities and/or poor motor skills.

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8. 14 years - for at least 3 months each year (with 6 weeks having to be consecutive).






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






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






11. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process.






12. A theory that relates the probability and incentive of success to motivation.






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

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14. Way of perceiving - believing evaluating and behaving






15. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have






16. A process that occurs when recall of certain information is inhibited by the presence of other information in memory.






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






18. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.






19. The degree to which people are held responsible for their task performances or decision outcomes.






20. Characterized by a lower than normal level of intelligence and developmental delays in specific adaptive behavior.






21. 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






22. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior






23. Experimentation with occupational and idelogical choices without definite commitment.






24. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






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






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






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






28. Applications of microcomputers that provide students with practice of skills and knowledge.






29. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.






30. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet






31. Another term for short-term memory.






32. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to confuse physical and psychological events in their attempts to develop theories of the internal world of the mind.






33. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.






34. The process of comparing one's self to others to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities.






35. Carryover of behaviors - skills - or concepts from one setting or task to another.






36. Term for native speakers of any language other than English.






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






38. A person is considered legally blind when the best corrected visual acuity is 20/200 - or the person's visual field is 20 degrees or less; not all blind persons have absolutely no sight; most blind persons have some remaining vision; considered blind






39. Teaching Methods Lecture; questioning; coaching students in critical thinking skills.






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






41. Students often learn a great deal simply by observing other people - describing the consequences of behaviors can effectively increase appropriate behaviors & decrease inappropriate ones






42. Food - water - or other consequence that satisfies basic needs.






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






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






45. Level of development immediately above a person's present level.






46. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






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






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






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






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