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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Peer tutoring between an older and a younger student.






2. The practice of grouping students by ability level in separate classes within-class ability






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






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






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






6. 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-






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






8. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).






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






10. Structured lessons that students can work on individually - at their own pace.






11. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






12. Teen is not able to develop a clear direction or sense of self. May have experienced an identity crises but was unable to resolve it.






13. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






14. 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;






15. A thinking-skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






16. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






17. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.






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






19. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.






20. Renowned scientist who founded wild boy






21. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on gaining recognition from others and earning good grades.






22. 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.






23. The age of an individual in years.






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






25. Students: 1) think about the lesson topic; 2) pair up with partners and share according to the guidelines the teacher has provided; 3) share their discussions with the rest of the class. Each person takes a turn retelling their partners' information.






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. Assignments or activities designed to broaden or deepen the knowledge of students who master classroom lessons quickly.






28. Stages 3 and 4 in Kohlberg's model of moral development - in which individuals make moral judgments in consideration of others.






29. 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.






30. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






31. Diagramming main ideas and connections between them.






32. Hypothesis that language acquisition is related directly to the student's attitude about learning. (Krashen's Theory)






33. Event that comes before a behavior.






34. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






35. Mental retardation.






36. (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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37. Mental patterns that guide behavior.






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






39. 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






40. A focus on having students in mixed-ability groups and holding them to high standards but providing many way to reach those standards.






41. A model based on the idea that information is processed simultaneously in the sensory register - short-term memory - and long-term memory.






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






43. Person defines her own values in terms of the ethical principles she has elected to follow.






44. People who are equal in age or status.






45. Students who have abilities or problems so significant that the students require special education or other services to reach their potential.






46. Wanted public funding in 1840s for Catholic schools. Helped the secularization of American public schools.






47. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a constant amount of time.






48. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others.






49. Play in which children join together to achieve a common goal.






50. Cognitive style of responding quickly but often without regard for accuracy.