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Elementary Teaching
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1. Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical or number patterns; ability to handle long bits of reasoning.
Closure
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
New England Colonies
2. Decreased ability to recall previously learned information causedby learning of new information.
Descriptive Research
Gender bias
Tutorial programs
Retroactive inhibition
3. Stage at which children learn mentally to represent things.
Preoperational stage
Language minority
Physical characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Positive Correlation
4. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response
Compensatory education
Diagnostic tests
Describes the consequences of having the disability.
Selected Response
5. A pleasurable consequence that maintains or increases a behavior.
Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principle Orientation
Initiative v. Guilt Stage
Free-recall learning
Reinforcer
6. A program that provides one-to-one tutoring from specially trained teachers to first-graders who are not reading adequately.
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
Achievement tests
realism
Reading Recovery
7. 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.
Stage 5: Social Contract Orientation
assimilation
Postmodernism
Achievement motivation
8. 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.
Compulsory Education Act of 1852 (Mass.) mandatory school attendance for children - ages 8
Birth - Age 2
Jigsaw
Emotional or Behavioral Disorder
9. Forms of education Private tutors - parochial (Church of England) schools - and boarding schools
Southern Colonies
meaningful learning
Applied behavior analysis
Normal curve
10. 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.)
Levels-of-processing theory
Correlational Study
Valentine Huay
academic competence
11. Father of American Scholarship in Education
Constructed response
Possible signs of vision loss
Erik Erickson moratorium
Noah Webster
12. Standardized tests that include several subtests designed to measure knowledge of particular subjects.
Achievement batteries
Single-Case Experiment
Rule-example-rule
Removal punishment
13. Mild to moderate mental retardation (some exceptions); may have heart defects - hearing loss - intestinal malformation - vision problems; increased risk for thyroid problems - leukemia - & Alzheimer disease
Loci method
Characteristics of Down Syndrome
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Norm-referenced evaluations
14. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.
Distributed practice
Foreclosure
Americans with Disabilities Act
Heteronomous morality
15. Brief statements that represent the main idea of the information being read.
Conservation
Internal Validity
Description of the way a child goes up & down steps at the end of early childhood
Summarization
16. An impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context - both verbally and nonverbally; improper use of words and their meanings - inability to express ideas - inappropriate grammatical patterns - reduced vocabulary and inability to f
Berard Bailyn
Solitary play
Language Disorders
Normal distribution
17. Direct injury to the brain - such as a tearing of nerve fibers - bruising of the brain tissues against the skull - brain stem trauma - or swelling.
Identity Achievement
academic competence
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Semantic memory
18. 12 to 18 yrs.; Goal is for teen to experiment with different roles - personality traits - etc. so as to develop a sense of who she is & What is personally important to her. failure to reach goal leads to a state of confusion which can interfere with
Retroactive facilitation
Working with students with speech disorders
Most critical problem that can result from standardized achievement test accommodation
Identity v. Role Confusion Stage
19. Play in which children engage in the same activity side by side but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
Schemata
Associative play
Parallel play
Emotional and behavioral disorders
20. The meaning of stimuli in the context of relevant information.
Mental retardation
sensorimotor stage
Inattention
Inferred reality
21. Elemenating or decreasing a behaviour by removing reinforcement
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Naturalist Intelligence
Achievement batteries
extinction
22. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.
In 1990 - P.L. 94-142 was renamed to the
Working with students with learning disabilities
Relative grading standard
The first special classes were established in 1896 in Chicago for
23. Explanation of the relationship between factors such as the effects of alternative grading systems on student motivation.
Starting in 1983 - this was amended several times and expanded its range of programs to include early intervention programs for infants/toddlers with disabilities and transition programs.
Principle
Achievement batteries
Nongraded programs (cross-age grouping programs)
24. The distinction between conversational fluency (basic interpersonal communication skills - or BICS) - and academic language (cognitive/academic language proficiency - or CALP).
Compensatory education
BICS/CALP
culture
QAIT model
25. A part of long-term memory that stores facts and general knowledge.
Lesson planning
Semantic memory
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)
Piaget's Theory of Moral Development Cognitive stuctures/abilities develop first
26. General aptitude for learning - often measured by ability to deal with abstractions and to solve problems.
The normalization principle was a major factor in the development of community-based services for individuals with
Discrimination
Intelligence
Copying an article
27. Curriculum Emphasis is on enduring ideas.
culture
Rule-example-rule
Perennialism
Handicap
28. Methods for aiding the memory.
Mnemonics
Within-class ability grouping
Expectancy-valence model
Keyword method
29. Lack of relationship between two variables.
Reliability
Conventional level of morality
Postmodernism
Uncorrelated Variables
30. Goal was to prevent Catholic schools from receiving state and tax-payer funding for schools and ensuring that only the Protestant bible was used in schools.
Know Nothing Party
Enrichment activities
Variable
Common School Movement
31. A teacher or school can make one backup copy of
Copying computer programs
Compensatory education
reflection
Massed practice
32. Individual that are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviors; these unconscious factors may create unhappiness - sometimes in the form of recognizable symptoms and at other times as troubling personality traits
Psychoanalytic Theory
Experimental Group
Summarization
representational thinking
33. The study of teaching and learning with applications to the instructional process.
Free-recall learning
Overlearning
Elaboration
Pedagogy
34. Evaluating information from a variety of sources and applying observations of one's own practice back into instructional planning.
Closure
Intelligence quotient
Race
reflection
35. Assessment Continuous feedback - informal monitoring of students' progress
accommodation
internalizing problems
language acquisition hypothesis
Progressivism
36. Assessments that follow instruction and evaluate knowledge or skills.
Summative evaluation
Hyperactivity
George Counts
Individualized Education Program (IEP)
37. Teachers' role in advocating for the interests of the students they teach. ELL students and their families often do not have the skills or knowledge of the schooling system to make their voices heard in the school and community.
Intelligence quotient
change agents
Variable-interval schedule
Interpersonal Intelligence
38. For blind students.
The first special classes were established in 1896 in Chicago for
Mainstreaming
communication disorders
Taxonomy of educational objectives
39. A set of critical issues that individuals must address as they pass through eight life stages - according to Erikson.
Psychosocial crisis
The first special classes were established in 1869 in Boston for
monitor hypothesis
Musical Intelligence
40. Theory that information is stored in long-term memory in networks of connected facts and concepts that provide a structure for making sense of new information.
Mastery learning
Extrinsic reinforcer
Learning objectives
Schema theory
41. Given two lists - each item in one list will match with one item in the other list.
Schemes
Matching items
Variable-interval schedule
Seatwork
42. Knowing about one's own learning ('thinking about thinking').
Performance assessment
Metacognition
Hyperactivity
Verbal learning
43. The adolescent's inability to develop a clear sense of self.
Identity diffusion
object permanence
Deafness and Hard of Hearing
PQ4R method
44. 1990 Governs how states/public agencies provide early early intervention - special education - and related services to children with disabilities from birth to 21 years of age.
horizontal decalage
Choral response
Individuals with Disabilities Act
Standardized tests
45. A discussion among all the students in a class with the teacher as moderator.
Whole-class discussion
Initial-letter strategy
Autism
Positive Correlation
46. The placement - for all or part of the school day - of disabled children in regular classes.
Proactive inhibition
manpower Development and Training Act
Mainstreaming
Grade-equivalent scores
47. Developmental stage at which a person becomes capable of reproduction.
Puberty
Multicultural education
Operant conditioning
Perennialism
48. Goal is to establish and guide the 'next' generation and help others. Failure to do so may lead to stagnation - self-indulgence - and selfishness.
hierarchial classification
Learning together
Aptitude test
Generativity v. Self-Absorption Stage Middle Adulthood
49. The act of analyzing oneself and one's own thoughts.
Simulation software
Episodic memory
Reflectivity
Classical conditioning
50. A close emotional relationship between two persons characterized by mutual affection and a desire to maintain proximity; attachments serve the purpose of keeping the child & primary caregiver physically and emotionally close
Conduct disorders
Withitness
Attachment Theory
Musical Intelligence