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Elementary Teaching

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1. Parents who give their children great freedom.






2. A thinking-skills program in which students work through a series of paper-and-pencil exercises designed to develop various intellectual abilities.






3. A cooperative learning model that involves small groups in which students work using cooperative inquiry - planning - project - and group discussion - then make a presentation on their findings to the class.






4. Normal intelligence; discrepancy between intelligence & performance; delays in achievement; poor motor coordination/spatial ability; perceptual anomalties; difficulty w/self-motivation; etc.






5. Theories of cognitive development that emphasize the active role of learners in building their own understanding of reality.






6. An aspect of an activity that people enjoy and - therefore - find motivating.






7. Group that receives no special treatment during an experiment.






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






9. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.






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






11. Mental networks of related concepts that influence understanding of new information.






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 (those a child exhibits depends on form/severity of autism) extremely withdrawn; engage in self-stimulating activities (rocking - etc.); might have normal/outstanding abilitities in some areas; resistant to changes in the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






13. 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






14. Differences in developmental needs from one child to the next; see intraindividual variation.






15. Takes coordinated - even steps - steps once on each step - alternating feet






16. 14 years - for at least 3 months each year (with 6 weeks having to be consecutive).






17. The degree to which students are placed in competitive or cooperative relationships in earning classroom rewards.






18. A program that is designed to prevent or remediate learning problems for students who are from lower socioeconomic status communities.






19. Gradual - orderly changes by which mental processes become more complex and sophisticated.






20. A model of instruction developed by Gagne that matches instructional strategies with the cognitive processes involved in learning.






21. Disorder in ability to control movements caused by damage to the motor area of the brain






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






23. A consequence that people learn to value through its association with a primary reinforcer.






24. 1944 Provided for college/vocational ed. for returning WWII veterans.

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25. A cooperative learning model in which students are assigned to six-member teams to work on academic material that has been broken down into sections for each member.






26. One of three stages of children's use of language identified by Vygotsky during which children begin to use speech to regulate their behavior and thinking through spoken aloud self-verbalizations; contrast with social speech and inner speech.






27. Capacity to discern and respond appropriately to the moods - temperaments - motivations - and desires of others.






28. A consequence that a person tries to avoid or escape






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






30. Goal is to establish and guide the 'next' generation and help others. Failure to do so may lead to stagnation - self-indulgence - and selfishness.






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






32. The concept that certain properties of an object (such as weight) remain the same regardless of changes in other properties (such as length).






33. When the teacher demonstrates an activity or lesson before having students do the lesson or activity on their own






34. 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.






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






36. A condition exhibiting one or more of the following characteristics over a long period of time & to a marked degree that adversely affects educational performance






37. Down syndrome - autism - developmental disability - schizophrenia - anxiety disorders - bipolar disorder (manic depression) - anorexia - post traumatic stress disorder - print disability - hearing impairment - physical disability






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






39. Loses things necessary for tasks or activities - easily distracted by extraneous stimuli - forgetful in daily activities






40. Assessments that rate how thoroughly students have mastered specific skills or areas of knowledge






41. Structured lessons that students can work on individually - at their own pace.






42. Not explored identity - not made a commitment.






43. One student teaching another.






44. In Gardner's theory of intelligence - a person's seven separate






45. Having students listen for specific information.






46. The period of life from birth to 2 years old when children acquire what Piaget believed are the building blocks of symbolic thinking and human intelligence-schemes for two basic competencies - goal-directed behavior and object permanence.






47. 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.






48. Tendency to analyze oneself & one's own thoughts






49. The process of comparing one's self to others to gather information and to evaluate and judge one's abilities.






50. Assessment Frequent objective - essay - and performance tests.







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