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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A theory that proposes that memory is stronger and lasts longer when the conditions of performance are similar to those under which learning occurred.






2. Parents who strictly enforce their authority over their children.






3. The speech or writing that a learner produces in a target language






4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).






5. Compensatory preschool programs that target very young children at the greatest risk of school failure.






6. Degree of deafness; uncorrectable inability to hear well.






7. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.


8. 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.)






9. Person adopts rules and will sometimes subordinate her own needs to those of the group. Expectations of family - group - or nation are seen as valuable in their own right - regardless of immediate/obvious consequences.






10. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.






11. Have 47 chromosomes instead of 46; TRISOMY 21 - the extra chromosome attaches to the 21st pair






12. Dispensing reinforcement for behavior emitted following an unpredictable amount of time.






13. A question or a partial statement in a test item that is completed by one of several choices.






14. Assign students to remedial or accelerated tracks based solely on their scores - compute glass grades using standardized test scores - compare scores on the exam to in-class quizzes






15. Difficulty scoring - requires students to support an argument with multiple lines of reasoning - depends on writing ability






16. Praise or rewards given to motivate people to engage in behavior that they might not engage in without it.






17. 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


18. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky that is used primarily for communicative purposes in which thought and language have separate functions; contrast with egocentric speech and inner speech.






19. Connecting new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.






20. The mental tendency to organize perceptions so they make sense.






21. The inability to concentrate for long periods of time.






22. Growth that occurs during these years usually proceeds from the extremities to the torso & may be uneven - the child's body grows much more slowly relative to other periods of life.






23. Birth to 18 mo.; Goal is to develop a basic sense of trust in others and a sense of one's own trustworthiness. failure to reach this goal results in a sense of mistrust in others/the world.






24. Have a sense of pride in their accomplishments & enjoy demonstrating their achievements






25. Instruction felt to be adapted to the current developmental status of children (rather than their age alone).






26. Wrote anti-papism literature influencing exclusion of Catholic schools from public funding






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






28. Using unpleasant consequences to weaken a behavior






29. A method of ability grouping in which students in mixed-ability classes are assigned to reading or math classes on the basis of their performance levels.






30. Moving from the physical characteristics of language (e.g. - letter-sounds) that are interpreted into successively more symbolic and meaningful levels (syntax and semantics). Often contrasted with top-down processing.






31. An adolescent's premature establishment of an identity based on parental choices - not on his or her own






32. Giving a clear - firm - unhostile response to student misbehavior.






33. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






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






35. Body quadruples in weight and the brain triples in weight - neurons branch & grow into dense connective networks between the brain & the rest of the body






36. Condition characterized by extreme restlessness and short attention spans relative to peers.






37. Strategy for memorization in which initial letters of a list to be memorized are taken to make a word or phrase that is more easily remembered.






38. Experiment in which conditions are highly controlled.






39. Programs that address the needs of students with mental - emotional - or physical disabilities.






40. 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.






41. Interactive programs that include videos. films. still pictures - and music.






42. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process.






43. A developmental limitation present during the preoperational stage that makes young children focus their attention on only one aspect - usually the most salient - of a stimulus.






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






45. Professionals working cooperatively to provide educational services.






46. A statement of information or tasks that students should master after one or more lessons.






47. The age of an individual in years.






48. The ability to use language to communicate orally or in writing.






49. A systematic linguistic analysis of the structures of the learners' native and target languages. Contrastive analysis can be performed at different levels of language--sound - lexicon - grammar - meaning - and rhetoric.






50. Relating new concepts to information students already understand.