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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






2. Procedures based on both behavioral and cognitive learning principles for changing your own behavior by using self-talk and self-instruction.






3. Rewarding or punishing one's own behavior.






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Important events that are fixed mainly in visual and auditory memory.






7. Degree of uncorrectable inability to see well.






8. Status reflects the degree to which teens have made a firm commitment to religious and political values and future occupation.

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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)






10. Grading on the basis of how well other students performed on the same test rather than in terms of preestablished absolute standards.






11. Mental patterns that guide behavior.






12. A theory that emphasizes the active integration of new material with existing schemata.






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






14. A model of effective instruction that focuses on elements that teachers can directly control.






15. Uling consequences to control the occurenc of behavior






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






17. Terms partially sighted - low vision - legally blind - and totally blind are used in the educational context to describe students with visual impairments






18. The ability to think and solve problems without the help of others.






19. Long - narrow face; large ears' prominent forehead; large head circumference; testicles enlarged at puberty in males






20. The kinds of difficulties a majority of children with emotional and behavioral disorders experience - including argumentative - aggressive - antisocial - and destructive actions; contrast with internalizing problems.






21. A computer application for writing compositions that lends itself to revising and editing.






22. The degree to which the teacher is aware of and responsive to student performance.






23. Peer tutoring between an older and a younger student.






24. The language produced by learners in the period before they reach native-like proficiency.






25. 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.






26. A process that occurs when recall of certain information is inhibited by the presence of other information in memory.






27. Contends that many societal institutions - including schools - are used by those in power to control/marginalize those who lack power = education should focus on reversing this.






28. Sensitivity to natural objects - like plants/animals; making fine sensory discrimination.






29. Standardized tests measuring how much students have learned in a given context.






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






31. In Piaget's theory - this type of knowledge is derived in part through interactions with others.*Examples of this knowledge include mathematical words and signs - languages - musical notations - as well as social and moral conventions.






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






33. Time during which students have the opportunity to learn.






34. In Piaget's theory - the understanding which develops during the concrete operational stage that involves the ability to order objects in a logical progression - such as from shortest to tallest; important for understanding the concepts of number - t






35. Stage at which children think that rules are unchangeable and that breaking them leads automatically to punishment.






36. Associating a previously neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to evoke a conditioned response.






37. Assessment Continuous feedback - informal monitoring of students' progress






38. Another term for short-term memory.






39. Concerned with the impact that SES and culture have on students' ability to learn; leader in the Progressive movement.






40. A lifelong developmental disability that is neurologically based and affects the functioning of the brain; disabilities vary from mild to severe and include deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication - problems with reciprocal social interaction






41. Developmental stage at which a person becomes capable of reproduction.






42. Disorder in one or more basic psychological processes involved in understanding/using spoken and/or written language = imperfect ability to listen - think - read - write - spell - or do math calculations.






43. Derived score that designates what percent of the norming group earned raw scores lower than a particular score.






44. Educational Implications (1) Learner-centered curricula. (2) hands-on learning activities where students collaborate. (3) Teacher guides students through learning process. (4) Constructivist in nature.






45. An explanation of motivation that focuses on how people explain the causes of their own successes and failures.






46. A stimulus that naturally evokes a particular response.






47. Educational Implications (1) Literature written by feminist/minority authors should be equal to that of others. (2) Historical events should be studied from the perspective of power - status - and marginalized people's struggle within these cont






48. The public loss of confidence in education






49. 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.






50. Evaluations designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed