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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Mental patterns that guide behavior.






2. Right = doing your duty - showing respect for authority - and maintaining social order for its own sake.






3. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






4. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade






5. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






6. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






7. Perceiving selected parts of a stimulus to stand out (figure) from other parts (background).






8. Presence of sub-average general intellectual functioning associated with or resulting in impairments in adaptive behavior; occurs before age of 18






9. Educational Goals Help students acquire basic skills and knowledge needed to function in today's world.






10. Reinforcement schedule in which desired behavior is rewarded following a fixed number of behaviors.






11. When the teacher demonstrates an activity or lesson before having students do the lesson or activity on their own






12. Provisions in the law (IDEA) that requires students with disabilities to be educated to the maximum extent appropriate with their nondisabled peers.






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






14. Curriculum Emphasis is on problem-solving and the skills needed in today's world.






15. (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the environment/routine; more pr






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






17. Another term for short-term memory.






18. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.






19. Movements of the fine muscles of the hand.






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






21. Deaf students.






22. Teaching Methods Discussion; role-play; simulations; personal research






23. Theory based on the belief that human development occurs through a series of distinct stages.






24. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.






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






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






27. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.






28. Consequence given to strengthen behavior.






29. Different views of males and females - often favoring one gender over the other.






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






31. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






32. Sensitivity to natural objects - like plants/animals; making fine sensory discrimination.






33. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.






34. Methods for aiding the memory.






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






36. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






37. The age of an individual in years.






38. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.






39. 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.






40. Children's self-talk - which guides their thinking and action. Eventually these verbalizations are internalized as silent inner speech.






41. Orderly and lasting growth - adaptation - and change over the course of a lifetime.






42. Educational Goals Critically examine today's institutions; elevate the status of marginalized people.






43. A study stategy that has students preview - question - read - reflect - recite - and review material.






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






45. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






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






47. Teen experiments with occupational and ideological choices without a commitment to any. Teen is currently in the midst of an identity crisis.






48. Physical consequences of an action is determine whether the action is 'good' or 'bad'.






49. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.






50. 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