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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. A test designed to measure general abilities and to predict future performance.






2. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






3. Hearing ability is of little use - even with the use of a hearing aid = cannot use hearing as primary source for accessing information.






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






5. Parents who give their children great freedom.






6. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.






7. The increase in levels of behavior in the early stages of extinction.






8. An intelligence test score that for people of average intelligence should be near 100.






9. Exceptional learning needs.






10. A mental operation in the concrete operational stage that involves the understanding that an entity remains the same despite superficial changes in its form or physical appearance.






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






12. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior.






13. One of three types of knowledge as described by Piaget; knowing the attributes of objects such as their number - color - size - and shape; knowledge is acquired by acting on objects - experimenting - and observing reactions.






14. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.






15. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






16. Using favored activities to reinforce participation in less desired activities.






17. Increased comprehension of previously learned information due to the acquisition of new information.






18. Research approach in which the teaching practices of effective teachers are recorded through classroom observation.






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






20. A hypothesis that students acquire grammatical structures in a predictable order - regardless of their native languages






21. 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)






22. 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






23. Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.






24. What is right is whatever satisfies one's own needs (occasionally the needs of others). Fairness/Reciprocity seen in terms of 'you scratch my back - I'll scratch yours'.






25. Pattern of teaching concepts by presenting a rule or definition - giving examples - and then showing how examples illustrate the rule.






26. A response to a question made by an entire class in unison.






27. Formerly Chapter 1 - compensatory programs that were reauthorized as Title 1 of the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) in 1994.






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






29. Much like parallel play but with increased levels of interaction in the form of sharing - turn-taking - and general interest in what others are doing.






30. A person's interpretation of stimuli.






31. Contends that many societal institutions - including schools - are used by those in power to control/marginalize those who lack power = education should focus on reversing this.






32. A form of formal logic achieved during the formal operational stage that Piaget identified as the ability to draw a logical inference between two statements or premises in an 'if-then' relationship.






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






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






35. A chart that classifies lesson objectives according to cognitive level.






36. Critical issue accompanying each of Erickson's 8 stages of development that a person must address as they pass through the stage. Failure to do so may keep person from being successful in later stages.






37. The frequency and predictability of reinforcement.






38. Education that teaches the value of cultural diversity.






39. Incorrect responses offered as alternative answers to a multiple-choice question.






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






41. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t






42. Classes or curricula targeted for students of a specified achievement or ability level.






43. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. Program tailored to the needs of an exceptional child.






47. Disability






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






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






50. Programs that combine children of different ages in the same class - generally at the primary level.