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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






2. The public loss of confidence in education






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






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






5. Inappropriate types of behavior or feelings under normal circumstances - a general pervasive mood of unhappiness or depression - a tendency to develop physical symptoms of fears associated with personal or school problems






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

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7. Learned information that can be applied to only a restricted - often artificial set of circumstances.






8. Signal as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished.






9. About 1/3 of affected girls have mild retardation/learning disability; may exhibit attention disorders - self-stimulatory behaviors - and speech/language problems






10. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child






11. An apparatus developed by B. F. Skinner for observing animal behavior in experiments in operant conditioning.






12. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.






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






14. A task requiring recall of a list of items in any order.






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






16. Livelihood Life centered around agriculture/use of slaves to work plantations






17. Less severe - more subtle forms of alcohol-related damage.






18. A category of disability that significantly affects social interaction - verbal and nonverbal communication - and educational performance.






19. 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.






20. Symbols that cultures create to help people think - communicate - and solve problems.






21. In Piaget's theory - the understanding which develops during the concrete operational stage that involves the ability to order objects in a logical progression - such as from shortest to tallest; important for understanding the concepts of number - t






22. Selection by chance into different treatment groups to try to ensure equality of the groups.






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






24. A study method in which students work in pairs and take turns orally summarizing sections of material to be learned.






25. Continuation of behavior.






26. Learning by observing others' behavior.






27. Systematic application of antecedents and consequences to change behavior.






28. 1965 part of Pres. Johnson's "War on Poverty.' Provides funding for special programs for children of low-income families in grades k through 12. has been reauthorized by Congress every 5 years since its inception.






29. 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






30. Using consequences to control the occurrence of behavior.






31. Methods used to organize classtoom activities - instruction - physical structure - and other features to make effective use of time - to create a happy and productive learning environment - and to minimize behavior problmes and other disruptions.






32. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






33. A regrouping method in which students are assigned to groups for reading instruction across grade lines.






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






35. Cognitive theory of learning that describes the processing - storage - and retrieval of knowledge from the mind.






36. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close






37. Final test of an objective.






38. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.






39. Methods used to prevent behavior problems from occurring or to respond to behavior problems so as to reduce their occurrence in the future.






40. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.






41. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






42. Interpreting new experiences in relation to existing schemes.






43. 1990 Governs how states/public agencies provide early early intervention - special education - and related services to children with disabilities from birth to 21 years of age.






44. The expectation - based on experience - that one1s actions will ultimately lead to failure.






45. Strategy for memorization in which images are used to link lists of facts to a familiar set of words or numbers.






46. For blind students.






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






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






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






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