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Elementary Teaching
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adolescent establishes an identity in which clear decisions about occupations and ideologies have been consciously made
Group contingencies
scaffolding
Fixed-interval schedule
Identity Achievement
2. Designation for programs and classes to teach English to students who are not native speakers of English.
English as a second language
Essentialism
Internal Validity
Mastery grading
3. 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.)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)
academic competence
Moral dilemmas
Grade-equivalent scores
4. Assessment Collaborative between teacher and student; emphasis is on the exposure of hidden assumptions.
Speech and Language Disorder
Educational Psychology
top-down processing
Postmodernism
5. The motivation or will to make something happen - to reach one's goal.
Intrinsic incentive
Generative learning
Cognitive dissonance theory
Volition
6. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Attribution theory
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Distributed practice
7. System of instruction that emphasizes the achievement of instructional objectives by all students by allowing learning time to vary.
Verbal learning
Instructional objective
Mastery learning
Learning together
8. The kinds of difficulties a majority of children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including argumentative - aggressive - antisocial - and destructive actions; contrast with internalizing problems.
Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses
Mock participation
Ages 2 - 6
externalizing problems
9. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.
Regrouping
Whole-class discussion
Reflectivity
Problem solving
10. A behavior that is prompted automatically by stimuli
Noah Webster
unconditioned responce
Describes the consequences of having the disability.
Compensatory preschool programs
11. Interaction of individual differences in learning with particular teaching methods.
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
Achievement batteries
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Special education
12. Goal is to establish and guide the 'next' generation and help others. Failure to do so may lead to stagnation - self-indulgence - and selfishness.
circular reactions
Massed practice
Generativity v. Self-Absorption Stage Middle Adulthood
Growth needs
13. Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes - difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Perennialism
Inattention
Bilingual Education Act of 1968 (Title VII of ESEA) provided schools with federal funds to establish educational programs for students w/ limited English
14. Descriptive term for students who have limited mastery of English.
Gender bias
reflective abstraction
Closure
Limited English proficiency (LEP)
15. The speech or writing that a learner produces in a target language
output
Neutral stimuli
Conduct disorders
BICS/CALP
16. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.
Performance goals
Intelligence quotient
Perennialism
Moral Dilemmas
17. 1950s High schools expected to teach "life skills" - especially for students not planning to attend post high school training/education.
Hyperactivity
Language minority
aversive stimulus
Life Adjustment Movement
18. 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-
Remediation
Perennialism
Hyperactivity
Consequence
19. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.
Videodisc
Postmodernism
Growth needs
Learned helplessness
20. Mental repetition of information - which can improve its retention.
Direct instruction
Rehearsal
Functional fixedness
Intrapersonal Intelligence
21. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things.
Moral Dilemmas
Reflexes
Procedural memory
summative assessment
22. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.
Contingent praise
Moratorium
Intrinsic reinforcer
Under IDEA - a student is eligible for special education services if he/she has a disability and because of the disability - the student has
23. A consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape
Common benefit of standardized achievement tests
aversive stimulus
Individual Learning Expectation (ILE)
specific learning disabilities .
24. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals
emotional or behavior disorders
Task analysis
meaningful learning
Observational learning
25. State that learners must individually discover and transform complex information - checking new information against old rules and revising them when they no longer work.
Unconditioned response (UR)
Constructivist theories of learning
Means-end analysis
Erik Erickson Identity diffusion
26. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c
Low Vision
Working with students with speech disorders
cognitive behavior modification
Language disorders
27. A comprehensive - multipurpose set of instructional software developed by one company.
Alexander Graham Bell
Integrated learning system
Attention
Perennialism
28. 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.
Group contingency program
Normal distribution
Locus of control
zone of proximal development
29. Movements - such as running or throwing - that involve the limbs and large muscles.
Progressivism
Z-score
Large muscle development
Erik Erickson Identity diffusion
30. Teaching the skills and knowledge necessary for a given activity.
Authentic assessment
Readiness training
communicative competence
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
31. Curriculum Emphasis placed on the works of marginalized people.
Early intervention
Postmodernism
Egocentric
Americans with Disabilities Act
32. History Industrialization - immigration - and westward expansion lead to many social problems. Solution? An educated - moral citizenry that could participate in democratic decision-making and contribute to the nation's economy.
Sensorimotor stage
Expectancy theory
Common School Movement
Volition
33. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
social knowledge
Southern Colonies
Neutral stimuli
34. Approach to teaching in which lessons are goal-oriented and structured by the teacher.
Locus of control
Direct instruction
Private speech
Backward planning
35. Refers to problems in communication and related areas such as oral motor function; inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional speech and feeding;
Means-end analysis
Inattention
attention deficit hyperactive disorders
Speech and Language Disorder
36. 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)
Solitary play
Remediation
Dartmouth College Case
Essentialism
37. Established a school for individuals who were blind in Paris
Valentine Huay
Content validity
Calling order
Episodic memory
38. Component of memory where limited amounts of information can be stored for a few seconds.
Preoperational stage
Speech and Language Disorder
Short-term memory
Joplin Plan
39. A person's perception of his or her own strengths and weaknesses.
Self-concept
seriation
Experiment
eversibility
40. A school situation in which a child's needs clash with the learning and behavioral expectations of the educational system.
Multicultural education
curriculum casualty
Inattention
Impulsivity
41. Values computed from raw scores that relate students1 performances to those of a norming group; examples are percentiles and grade equivalents.
Outlining
Presentation punishment
cognitive behavior modification
Derived scores
42. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142)
Formative Assessment
circular reactions
Psychosocial crisis
43. Federal law P.L. 101-476 enacted in 1990 changing the name of P.L. 94-142 and broadening services to adolescents with disabilities.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Achievement batteries
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
microskills
44. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.
Part learning
Withitness
Sensory impairments
intrinsic motivation
45. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.
reflection
Unconditioned stimulus (US)
Classroom management
Describes the consequences of having the disability.
46. Class rewards that depend on the behavior of all students.
Group contingencies
Wait time
Variable-interval schedule
Mastery grading
47. Memorization of facts or associations.
Bernard Bailyn
Students at risk
Extinction burst
Rote learning
48. 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
Ages 2 - 6
Flashbulb memory
Attachment Theory
Success for All
49. Knowledge about one's own thinking; involves an understanding of how memory works - what tasks require more cognitive effort - and what strategies facilitate learning; plays an important role in children's cognitive development during the middle chil
Mediated learning
metacognition
summative assessment
Assertive Discipline
50. Ability to access one's own feelings/abilities to discriminate among them and draw on them to guide behavior; knowledge of one's own strengths - weaknesses - desires and intelligences.
Intrapersonal Intelligence
Lloyd P. Jorgensen
Criterion-Referenced Tests
Neutral stimuli