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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Tests that are usually commercially prepared for nationwide use to provide accurate and meaningful information on student's level of performance relative to others at their age or grade levels.






2. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed






3. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.






4. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.






5. Rapid promotion through advanced studies for students who are gifted or talented.






6. 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.)






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






8. Eye contact - gestures - physical proximity - or touching used to communicate without interrupting verbal discourse.






9. A cooperative learning model that involves students with four- or five-member heterogenous groups on assignments.






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






11. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






12. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






13. People who are equal in age or status.






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






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






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






17. 1964 A federal compensatory preschool education program created to help disadvantaged 3 and 4 year old students enter elementary school "ready to learn.'






18. Have 47 chromosomes instead of 46; TRISOMY 21 - the extra chromosome attaches to the 21st pair






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






20. A person's interpretation of stimuli.






21. Teaching Methods Problem-based learning - cooperative learning - guided discovery.






22. Teen's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choice instead of her own. A pseudo-identity that is too fixed/rigid to serve as a foundation for meeting life's challenges.






23. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






24. Knowing an object exists when it is out of sight.






25. Adolescent experiments with goals and values by abandoning some of those set by parents and society; no definite commitments have been made to occupations or ideologies; the adolescent is in the midst of an identity crisis






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






27. The kinds of problems some children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including depression - withdrawal - anxiety - and obsession; contrast with externalizing problems.






28. Stage during which infants learn about their surroundings by using their sensesand motor skills.






29. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with






30. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






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






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






33. A motivational orientation of students who place primary emphasis on knowledge acquisition and self-improvement.






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






35. Achievement






36. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).






37. 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.






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






39. Mild to moderate mental retardation; attention disorders; behavioral problems






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






41. A subconscious process in which learners develop competence by using language for 'real communication.' This is often contrasted with taking courses to learn language.






42. Learning Environment (Same as Perennialism) High structure; high levels of on task time.






43. Believing that everyone views the world as you do.






44. Emphasizes curriculum that focuses on real-world problem solving and individual development. Most closely related to the Pragmatism school of philosophy






45. Process by which thoroughly learned tasks can be performed with little mental effort.






46. According to Piaget - children's inclination during the preoperational stage to attribute intentional states and human characteristics to inanimate objects.






47. Methods of questioning that encourage students to pay attention during lectures and discussions.






48. Strategy for improving memory by using images to link pairs of items.






49. The process of restoring balance between present understanding and new experiences.






50. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.

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