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Elementary Teaching
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1. Spanish monk; successful in teaching a small group of pupils who were deaf to speak - read - and write
Social comparison
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Procedural memory
Emergent literacy
2. A person is considered legally blind when the best corrected visual acuity is 20/200 - or the person's visual field is 20 degrees or less; not all blind persons have absolutely no sight; most blind persons have some remaining vision; considered blind
conservation
Legally Blind
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
Schemata
3. Signal as to what behavior(s) will be reinforced or punished.
Progressivism
Cue
Corpal Punishment
Aptitude-Treatment interaction
4. Belief that nature and human nature is constant. Most closely related to the Idealism and Realism schools of traditional philosophy.
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Perennialism
Formative evaluation
Middle Colonies
5. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
Peers
Laboratory Experiment
Postmodernism
Parallel play
6. The idea of 'public education' was created by historians who were 'educational missionaries.'
Bernard Bailyn
Intellectual Disability
Object permanence
Accountability
7. Learning Environment Collaborative - self-regulated - democratic.
English as a second language
Volition
Progressivism
Solitary play
8. The public loss of confidence in education
Rote learning
Where the school accountability movement comes from
Accountability
Language disorders
9. Indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye or a very limited field of vision (20 degrees at its widest point)
Progressivism
Perennialism
Validity
Legally Blind
10. Most girls begin their growth spurt by the start of 5th grade
Essentialism
When most girls begin their growth spurt
Part learning
External Validity
11. A discussion among four to six students in a group working independently of a teacher.
microskills
Minimum competency tests
Cerebral palsy
Small-group discussion
12. The process by which a learner gradually acquires expertise in interaction with an expert - either an adult or an older or more advanced peer.
Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
internalization
Time on-task
Cognitive apprenticeship
13. Evaluating information from a variety of sources and applying observations of one's own practice back into instructional planning.
reflection
Multicultural education
conservation
Southern Colonies (MD - Virginia - NC - SC - GA)
14. Teaching Methods Lecture - practice and feedback - questioning.
Essentialism
Portfolio assessment
English as a second language
Phillipe Pinel
15. Perception of and response to differences in stimuli.
Exceptional learners
Least restrictive environment
Vision Loss
Discrimination
16. Computer programs that model real-life phenomena to promote problem solving and motivate interest in the areas concerned.
Schemes
Cognitive apprenticeship
Overlapping
Simulation software
17. Component of instruction in which students work by themselves to demonstrate and rehearse new knowledge.
Z-score
Independent practice
Attachment Theory
Normal curve equivalent
18. Meichenbaum's developmental program that helps children control and regulate their behavior; children are taught self-regulatory strategies to use as a verbal tool to inhibit impulses - control impulses and frustration - and promote reflection.
error correction
Common School Movement
cognitive behavior modification
Norm-referenced evaluations
19. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.
Proactive inhibition
Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
Stem
Mainstreaming
20. Learning Environment Community-oriented - self-regulated
Postmodernism
communicative competence
affective filter hypothesis
Problem-solving assessment
21. Inborn - automatic responses to stimuli (e.g. - eyeblinking in response to bright light.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome could result in . . .
multimodal approach
In loco parentis "in the place of parents"
Reflexes
22. Research scores from individual minority populations to determine whether scores are comparable - provide non-English-speaking students the opportunity to take mathematics & science exams in their native language - grade essays without regard for who
Fair & ethical testing procedures
Problem solving
Pedagogy
Moratorium
23. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of
Copying computer programs
Preoperational stage
Mock participation
Erik Erickson Foreclosure
24. A history - culture - and sense of identity shared by a group of people.
Life Adjustment Movement
'A Nation at Risk'
Ethnicity
Reliability
25. Refers to a severe visual impairment - not necessarily limited to distance vision; applies to all individuals with sight who are unable to read the newspaper at a normal viewing distance - even with the aid of eyeglasses or contact lens; they use a c
unconditioned responce
Postconventional level of morality
Progressivism
Low Vision
26. Can make a copy for the class - but not personal use
Emotional and Behavior Disorders (EBD)
Marcia's Theory of Four Adolescent Identity Statuses
Copying an article
Life Adjustment Movement
27. Developed an early version of finger spelling for individuals who were deaf
Juan Bonet
Whole language
Mediated learning
assimilation
28. Piaget's term for an infant's understanding during the sensorimotor stage that objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen or acted on.
Emergent literacy
Emotional and behavioral disorders
Enactment
object permanence
29. A test designed to measure general abilities and to predict future performance.
Random Assignment
Reliability
Aptitude test
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
30. Bell-shaped symmetrical distribution of scores in which most scores fall near the mean - with progressively fewer occurring as distance from the mean increases.
Discrimination
Normal curve
Variable
shaping
31. General patterns of behavior used by parents when dealing with their children.
Paired-associate learning
Valentine Huay
Parenting styles
social competence
32. 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.
Common School Movement
Aptitude test
propositional logic
Postmodernism
33. An abstract idea that is generalized from specific examples.
Visually Impaired
Mastery goals
Authentic assessment
Concept
34. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.
change agents
Growth needs
Psychoanalytic Theory
Extrinsic incentive
35. 1875 Court upheld Michigan school officials' attempts to collect public funds for the support of a village high school to provide a secondary education for all males = set precedent for public funding of high schools.
Kalamazoo Case
Chronological age
Variable-interval schedule
Laboratory Experiment
36. Has difficulty with oral language (e.g. - listening - speaking - and understanding); reading (e.g. - decoding - comprehension); written language (e.g. - spelling - written expression); mathematics (e.g. - computation - problem solving); also may have
eversibility
Attention
Foreclosure
Learning Disability
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
Stage 3: Good-Boy/Good-Girl Orientation
Vicarious learning
Learning probe
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
38. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.
language learning hypothesis
Word processing
Tracks
extinction
39. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education
Discipline
Enrichment programs
Partially Sighted
Psychosocial theory
40. The period of life from 7 to 11 years old when - Piaget believed - children's thinking becomes less rigid - and they begin to use mental operations - such as classification - conservation - and seriation to think about events and objects in their env
eversibility
affective filter hypothesis
Impulsivity
concrete operational stage
41. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.
Public Law 94142
Characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome
Chautauqua (NY) Institute
Early intervention
42. Situation in which students appear to be on task but are not engaged with learning.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Culture
Mock participation
Performance goals
43. Conequence given to strengthen behavior
Learning together
Disability
Southern Colonies (MD - Virginia - NC - SC - GA)
positive reinforcer
44. Information on the results of one1s efforts.
inside-outside circle
Interference
Feedback
Valid reasons for assessing students
45. 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.
Cerebral palsy
Giftedness
Generative learning
Jigsaw
46. A cooperative learning model that involves students with four- or five-member heterogenous groups on assignments.
Learning together
Descriptive Research
Speech and Language Disorder
Bilingual education
47. Difficulty in maintaining attention because of limited ability to concentrate accompanied by impulsive actions/hyperactive behavior = may have marked academic - behavior - and social problems stemming from inability to pay attention.
Intelligence quotient
George Counts
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD)
Tutorial programs
48. Time spent actively engaged in learning the task at hand.
Prosocial behaviors
zone of proximal development
circular reactions
Time on-task
49. Technique in which facts or skills to be learned are repeated many times over a concentrated period of time.
Handicap
reflection
Continuous theory of development
Massed practice
50. A measure of the consistency of test scores obtained from the same students at different times.
Peers
intraindividual variation
Reliability
self-evaluation