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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






2. One form of multiple-choice test item - most useful when a comparison of two alternatives is called for.






3. A concept which allows children to use information they already have acquired to form new knowledge that begins to emerge during the concrete operational stage but more characteristic of adolescent thinking.






4. Learning process in which individuals physically carry out tasks.






5. A program that provides one-to-one tutoring from specially trained teachers to first-graders who are not reading adequately.






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






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






8. Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm - pitch - and timbre; appreciation of the forms of musical expression






9. Teacher's Role Guide learning with questioning; develop and guide practical problem-solving activities.






10. 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.






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






12. One-to-one tutoring for reading; early elementary = phonetic reading strategies; teach learning-to-learn skills (study skills - test-taking skills - etc.); give frequent feedback; break down large projects into smaller chunks; effective classroom man






13. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.






14. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.






15. The tendency for items that appear at the end of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






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 (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the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






17. An individual's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices rather than their own.






18. Easily memorize facts but has limited understanding of them; highly verbal with poor verbal/nonverbal communication skills; have a set way of doing things; experience extreme anxiety when routine is changed/expectations are not met; sensitive to soun

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19. Instruction given to students having difficulty learning.






20. Paying attention to only one aspect of an object or a situation.






21. Hypothetical situations that require a person to consider values of right and wrong.






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






23. Memorization of facts or associations.






24. 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.






25. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see well.






26. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to high scores on another.






27. Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest.






28. An understanding and appreciation of students' personal attributes - experiences - their cultures and communities - and how all this fits in with their learning.






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






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






31. Descriptive term for students who have limited mastery of English.






32. Basic requirements for physical and psychological well-being as identified by Maslow.






33. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.






34. A conscious process in which learners develop competence through formal studying of the language - including its rules - grammar and phonetic components






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36. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






37. 1950s High schools expected to teach "life skills" - especially for students not planning to attend post high school training/education.






38. Mild to moderate mental retardation; attention disorders; behavioral problems






39. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.






40. 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.






41. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see 1 out of every 1 -000 children are blind (vision = 20/200 or worse in the better eye) or visually imapired between 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye).






42. Continuation of behavior.






43. 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.






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






45. Deaf students.






46. A set of principles that relates social environment to psychological development.






47. Set of standardized scores ranging from 1 to 99 - having a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of about 21.






48. Educational Goals Train students' intellect and moral development.






49. Achievement






50. The language produced by learners in the period before they reach native-like proficiency.