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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Concomitant hearing and visual impairments which cause severe communication & other developmental/learning needs that student can't be educated in special education programs for students with hearing impairmenets/severe disabilities effectively.






2. 1965 part of Pres. Johnson's "War on Poverty.' Provides funding for special programs for children of low-income families in grades k through 12. has been reauthorized by Congress every 5 years since its inception.






3. Memorization of facts or associations.






4. Explanation of memory that links recall of a stimulus with the amount of mental processing it receives.






5. Knowing an object exists when it is out of sight.






6. People can learn by observing the behaviors of others & the outcomes of those behaviors - learning can occur without a change in behavior - the consequences of behavior play a role in learning - cognition (to perceive or understand) plays a role in l






7. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.






8. Vygotsky's term for the process of constructing a mental representation of external physical actions or cognitive operations that first occur through social interaction.






9. Education Reserved for the sons of wealthy - White families






10. 3 to 6 yrs.; Goal is for child to explore her world so she can understand who she is within this context. Failure to reach this leads child to experience a sense of guilt about her desires to explore - which could limit her willingness to take chance






11. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.






12. The pleasure that is inherent in simply engaging in the behavior.






13. Theory based on the belief that human development occurs through a series of distinct stages.






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






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






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






17. A type of standardized score ranging from 1 to 9 - having a mean of 5 and a standard deviation of 2.






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






19. Help ensure that the results will be an accurate indication of student ability - enable most students to be tested - enable testing practices to be deemed fair to all students






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






21. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement






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. Assessment Frequent objective and essay tests.






24. Release from an unpleasant situation to strengthen behavior






25. Characterized by a lower than normal level of intelligence and developmental delays in specific adaptive behavior.






26. Level of development immediately above a person's present level.






27. 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.






28. The degree to which people are held responsible for their task performances or decision outcomes.






29. Method of improving retention by practicing new knowledge or behaviors after mastery is achieved.






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






31. The order in which students are called on by the teacher to answer questions asked during the course of a lesson.






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






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






34. Physical consequences of an action is determine whether the action is 'good' or 'bad'.






35. Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly - does not follow through on instructions & fails to finish schoolwork - chores - or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions)






36. A term used by Piaget to describe how children mold new information to fit their existing schemes in order to better adapt to their environment; contrast with accommodation.






37. 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






38. Inability to learn that cannot be explained by intellectual - sensory - or health factors (academically performing below grade level) - inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers & teachers






39. Individuals characterized by specific impairments in speech and/or language






40. A system of accommodating student differences by dividing a class of students into two or more ability groups for instruction in certain subjects.






41. Learning based on students' experiences - interests - and goals






42. Evaluating information from a variety of sources and applying observations of one's own practice back into instructional planning.






43. Also referred to as schema (pl. schemata) in some research areas; in Piaget's theory - the physical actions - mental operations - concepts - or theories people use to organize and acquire information about their world.






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






45. Modifying existing schemes to fit new situations.






46. 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;






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






48. Livelihood Life centered around agriculture/use of slaves to work plantations






49. 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'.






50. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court rules that separate facilities for Black and White students are inherently unequal = called for integration of schools.