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Elementary Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. Evaluation designed to determine whether additional instruction is needed.






2. The average test score received by individuals of a given chronological age.






3. Programs in which assignments or activities are designed to broaden or deepen the knowledge of students who master classroom lessons quickly.






4. Forms of education Private tutors - parochial (Church of England) schools - and boarding schools






5. Actions that show respect and caring for others.






6. Way of perceiving - believing evaluating and behaving






7. Students' readiness to begin a lesson.






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






9. Stimuli that do not naturally prompt a particular response.






10. Needs for knowing - appreciating - and understanding - which people try to satisfy after their basic needs are met.






11. An act that is followed by a favorable effect is more likely to be repeated in similar situations; an act that is followed by an unfavorable effect is less likely to be repeated.






12. 1874 Began as a training for Methodist Sunday-School teachers; gradually broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainment.






13. 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






14. Individuals identified with a minimal IQ score of about 130 and above-average academic achievement - usually 2 years above grade level.






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






16. One of three types of knowledge as described by Piaget; knowing the attributes of objects such as their number - color - size - and shape; knowledge is acquired by acting on objects - experimenting - and observing reactions.






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






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






19. Standard score having a mean of zero and a standard deviation of 1.






20. Criterion-referenced tests focusing on important skills students are expected to have mastered to qualify for promotion or graduation.






21. Education Many students educated in parochial schools = taught in their native language & family's religious beliefs were an integral part of the curriculum






22. 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






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

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24. A condition that a person tries to avoid or escape.






25. Father of American Scholarship in Education






26. Mild form of autism; may have concomitant learning disabilities and/or poor motor skills.

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27. Mental retardation.






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






29. Inability to develop a clear direction or sense of self; adolescent has few commitments to goals and values - and seems apathetic about finding an identity; if an identity crisis has been experienced - it has not been resolved






30. Increased comprehension of previously learned information due to the acquisition of new information.






31. 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;






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






33. A part of long-term memory that stores information about how to do things.






34. The desire to experience success and to participate in activities in which success is dependent on personal effort and abilities.






35. A teaching partnership that often accompanies cooperative or team teaching and is characterized by a consultative relationship in which both special and general educators discuss academic and social behavior problems in the general classroom to meet






36. Strategy for memorization in which initial letters of a list to be memorized are taken to make a word or phrase that is more easily remembered.






37. A characteristic conversational pattern of preschoolers who are unable to take the perspective of others and thus make little effort to modify their speech for their listener so that remarks to each other seem unrelated.






38. Instructional program for students who speak little or no English in which some instruction is provided in the native language.






39. Praise that is effective because it refers directly to specific task performances.






40. Students who have knowledge of effective learning strategies and how and when to use them.






41. Procedure used to test the effects of a treatment.






42. 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.






43. Gauging the progress of students






44. Technique in which items to be learned are repeated at intervals over a period of time.






45. Memorization of facts or associations.






46. A group within a larger society that sees itself as having a common history - social and cultural heritage - and traditions - often based on race - religion - language - or national identity.






47. Theory based on the belief that human development progresses smoothly and gradually from infancy to adulthood.






48. 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.






49. The value each of us places on our own characteristics - abilities - and behaviors.






50. Sensitivity to and capacity to discern logical or number patterns; ability to handle long bits of reasoning.