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Elementary Teaching

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1. Support for learning and problem solving. The support could be clues - reminders - encouragement - breaking the problem down into steps - providing an example - or anything else that allows the student to grow in independence as a learner.






2. Disorders that impede academic progress of people who are not mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed.






3. 1964 A no-cost educational/vocational training program administered by the U.S. Dept. of labor that helps people ages 16 - 24 get a better job - make more money - and take control of their lives. Part of the Economic Opportunity Act.






4. Learning strategies for learning.






5. Mild to moderate mental retardation; attention disorders; behavioral problems






6. Something that can have more than one value.






7. Increased in hormonal levels occur - resulting in a growth spurt - males generally become taller than females and develop deeper voices and characteristic patterns of facial and body hair; increased strength and heart and lung capacity give the child






8. A concept which allows children to use information they already have acquired to form new knowledge that begins to emerge during the concrete operational stage but more characteristic of adolescent thinking.






9. Knowledge and skills relating to reading that children usually develop from experience with books and other print media before the beginning of formal reading instruction in school.






10. Relates to the accuracy with which skills & knowledge are measured






11. Tests or assessments administered during units of instruction that measure progress and guide the content and pace of lessons.






12. Teaching approach in which each student works at his or her own level and rate.






13. Final test of an objective.






14. A problem-solving technique that encourages identifying the goal (ends) of a problem - the current situation - and what needs to be done (means) to reduce the difference between the two conditions.






15. 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






16. Degree to which test scores reflect what the test is intended to measure.






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






18. Removing a student from a situation in which misbehavior was reinforced.






19. Bell-shaped symmetrical distribution of scores in which most scores fall near the mean - with progressively fewer occurring as distance from the mean increases.






20. Piaget's term for patterns of behavior during the sensorimotor stage that are repeated over and over again as goal-directed actions.






21. Test that predicts ability to learn a variety of specific skills and types of knowledge.






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






23. An umbrella term to describe all who receive special education-children with disabilities as well as children who are gifted.






24. 1962 mandated funding to educate thousands of people unemployed because of automation/technological advances so they would be marketable in these fields.






25. A theory that proposes that memory is stronger and lasts longer when the conditions of performance are similar to those under which learning occurred.






26. The tendency for items that appear at the beginning of a list to be more easily recalled than other items.






27. Contributions to Education Taxes to support public schools - increase in attendance of under-represented groups - created state education departments and appointing of state superintendents






28. Fill-in-the-blank items on tests.






29. 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.






30. Mastering new material by learning it one part or subskill at a time.






31. Test items in which respondents can select from one or more possible answers - without requiring the scorer to interpret their response






32. Theory that emphasizes learning through observation of others.






33. A teacher1s ability to respond to behavior problems without interrupting a classroom lesson.






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






35. Relationship in which high scores on one variable correspond to high scores on another.






36. A disorder characterized by difficulties maintaining attention because of a limited ability to concentrate; includes impulsive actions and hyperactive behavior.






37. A test designed to measure general abilities and to predict future performance.






38. Indicates some type of visual problem has resulted in a need for special education






39. Stage at which a person understands that people make rules and that punishments are not automatic.






40. 1958 Passed in response to the Russian launch of Sputnik satellite; appropriated federal funds to improve education in areas considered crucial to national defense/security: math - foreign language - and science.






41. Activities and techniques that orient students to the material before reading or class presentations.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






45. Orientation for approaching learning tasks and processing information in certain ways.






46. Articulation problems occurring most frequently among children in the early elementary school grades.






47. Rogoff's term used to describe transferring responsibility for a task from the skilled partner to the child in a mutual involvement between the child and the partner in a collective activity. Steps include choosing and structuring activities to fit t






48. The age of an individual in years.






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






50. Assessment Collaborative between teacher and student; emphasis is on the exposure of hidden assumptions.






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