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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge from the mind.






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






3. A person1s desire to develop to his or her full potential.






4. The value each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






5. Demographics Majority English - w/large populations of Dutch in New York - Swedes in Delaware - and Germans in Pennsylvania






6. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.






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






8. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






9. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.






10. Explanation of the relationship between factors such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.






11. Can be a congenital anomaly (e.g. - club foot - etc.); an impairment caused by disease (e.g. - polio - etc.); or impairments from other causes (e.g. - cerebral palsy - amputation - etc.) that adversely affects a student's educational performance.






12. Establishment Clause prohibits the establishment of a national religion.






13. Work that students are assigned to do independently during class.






14. Decision making about student performance and about appropriate teaching strategies.






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






16. A measure of prestige within a social group most often based on income and education.






17. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.






18. 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.






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






20. Theory of motivation based on the belief that people1s efforts to achieve depend on their expectations of reward.






21. Exceptional learning needs.






22. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to record their performance and compare it to their target goals.






23. A cognitive strategy that encourages children to use internal speech to guide them through a task in a step-by-step manner; see inner speech.






24. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






25. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information.






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






27. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






28. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






29. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky that is used primarily for communicative purposes in which thought and language have separate functions; contrast with egocentric speech and inner speech.






30. A teaching method effective with children having an attention deficit disorder that combines educational support - psychological counseling - behavioral management at school and home - and medical management using a psychostimulant.






31. Loses things necessary for tasks or activities - easily distracted by extraneous stimuli - forgetful in daily activities






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






33. Right is defined by decisions of conscience according to ethical principles chosen by the person. The principles are abstract and not moral prescriptions.






34. Condition - usually present at birth - that results in below-average intellectual skills and poor adaptive behavior.






35. A teaching method based on the principles of question generation - in which metacognitive skills are taught through instruction and teacher modeling to improve the reading performance of students who have poor comprehension.






36. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.






37. The process of adjusting schemes in response to the environment by means of assimilation.






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






39. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






40. Help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability - enable most students to be tested - enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students






41. Right is defined in terms of individual rights/standards that have been agreed upon by society. Laws are not 'frozen' but can be changed for society's good.






42. 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)






43. A study strategy that requires decisions about what to write.






44. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






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






46. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.






47. Explanation of learning that emphasizes observable changes in behavior.






48. Associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to evoke a conditioned response.






49. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






50. A wide range and varying degrees of characteristics children exhibit that classify them as exceptional and require special accommodations for learning situations