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Teaching Strategies

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1. The ability of adults to read - understand - and interpret information written at the eighth grade level or above. An umbrella term used to describe socially required and expected reading and writing abilities; the relative ability of persons to use






2. A situation or area in which health teaching takes place as classified on the basis of what relationship health education has to the primary function of an organization - agency - or instruction in which the teaching occurs.






3. Interacting with others who represent different cultures from one's own culture.






4. A disorder that manifests itself during the developmental period when a child demonstrates subaverage general intellectual functioning with concurrent deficits in adaptive behaviors. Sometimes referred to as mental retardation or developmental delay.






5. The ability of adults to read - write - and comprehend information between the fifth- and the eight-grade level of difficulty. Aka marginally literate






6. An absence or impairment of the ability to communicate through speech or writing due to a dysfunction in the Broca's ares of the brain - which is the center of the cortex that controls motor abilities.






7. A generic term that refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties with learning. Inattention and impulsivity are signs indicating developmentally inappropriate behavior.






8. An instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.






9. The values and behaviors every human group assigns to its conventions - which arise out of its own historical background and can only be accurately interpreted and understood in the light of that group's cultural worldview.






10. The ability to use the necessary hardware and software to meet the needs for information.






11. The resources or vehicles used to help communicate information - which include both print and nonprint media - to aid teaching and learning by stimulating the various senses - such as vision and hearing. These are intended to supplement - not replace






12. A specific statement of a short-term behavior that is written to reflect an aspect of the main objective leading to the achievement of the primary objective.






13. Factors that influence an individual's identification with an ethnic group and that cause the individual to share a group's worldview such as nationality - race - color - gender - age - and religious affiliation.






14. Inability to perform some key life functions; often used interchangeable with the term functional limitation.






15. One of the newest forms of online communication - also known as web logs or web diaries - is an increasingly popular mechanism for individuals to share information and/or experiences about a given topic that include images - media objects - and links






16. The process of becoming sensitive to the interactions with other cultural groups by examining one's biases and prejudices toward others of another culture or ethnic background.






17. Stands for mobile learning - which is a new strategy that takes advantage of the many wireless - portable - and handheld devices such as MP3 players - that can access course materials - search the web - listen to lectures - and record experiences and






18. A discipline that analyzes consumers' needs for information - studies and implements methods of making information accessible to consumers - and models and integrates consumer preferences into medical information systems






19. A facsimile constructed to scale that resembles the features or substance of the original object. It may be examined or manipulated by the learner to get an idea of how something works.






20. A message that can be sent via the computer at the convenience of the sender and the message will be read when the receiver is online and ready to read it; messages that can be sent and responded to any time - day or night.






21. One of three domains in the taxonomy of behavioral objectives; deals with aspects of behavior focusing on the way in which someone thinks in acquiring facts - concepts - principles - etc.






22. Variation in health status - health behavior - or learning abilities among individuals of different social and economic levels.






23. A complex concept that is an integral part of each person's life and includes knowledge - beliefs - values - morals - customs - traditions - and habits acquired by the members of a society.






24. The process of transforming letters into words and being able to pronounce them correctly.






25. The opportunity for repeated practice of a behavioral task.






26. A mutually agreed-on specific plan of action between the learner and educator clearly defining the specific behavioral objectives and predetermined goal to be achieved as a result of instruction.






27. Intended outcomes of the educational process that are in reference to an aspect of a program or a total program of study that are content oriented and teacher centered.






28. Evidence that is not generated from research but is appropriate for use when - for example - it is derived from a systematically conducted experiment.






29. A concept in which the belief is held that one's own culture is superior and all other cultures are less sophisticated.






30. Numbers and words - symbols written and spoken to convey ideas or represent objects - which are the most common forms of communication yet are the most abstract types of messages.






31. One of three classifications of instructional settings - in which the delivery of health care is the primary or sole function of an institution - organization - or agency. Examples: hospitals - visiting nurse associations - public health departments






32. Systematic assessment of the degree to which individuals have learned or objectives have been met as a result of education intervention.






33. The willingness of a person emigrating to a new culture to gradually adopt and incorporate the characteristics of the prevailing culture.






34. Can be defined as a highly structured method by which the teacher verbally transmits information directly to groups of learners for the purpose of instruction. Oldest and most often used approaches to teaching. An ideal way to provide foundational ba






35. The behavioral and biological differences between males and females.






36. The ability to access - evaluate - organize - and use information from a variety of sources.






37. A comparison between the sexes as to how males and females act - react - and perform in situations affecting every sphere of life as a result of genetic and environmental influences on behavior.






38. A computer network of information servers around the world that are connected to the Internet; it is technology-based educational resource that was created as a virtual space for the display of information.






39. A systematic assessment taking place immediately after the learning experience to determine the degree to which learners have acquired the knowledge or skills taught during a teaching-learning session.






40. The gap between those individuals who have access to information technology resources and those who do not.






41. The process of assessing outcomes or effects of an educational activity that extend beyond the activity itself to address organizational and/or societal effects.






42. A common instructional method for exchange of information whereby the teacher delivers individual verbal instructional of learning activities in a format designed specifically to meet the needs of a particular learner.






43. An opinion or conveyance of a message through oral or body language by the teacher to the learner about how well he or she performed a psychomotor skill.






44. A flexible telecommunications method of instruction using video or computer technology to transmit live - online - or taped messages directly between the instructor and the learner - who are separated from one another by time and/or location.






45. One of the three domains in the taxonomy of behavioral objectives; deals with the attitudes - values - and beliefs.






46. Technological tools available for people with disabilities that provide access to education - employment - recreation - and communication opportunities that allow them to live as independently as possible.






47. Overall blueprint or outline for instruction clearly defining the relationship between the essential components of behavioral objectives - instructional content - teaching methods - and tools - time frame for teaching - and methods of evaluation that






48. The effects of learning one skill on the subsequent performance of another related skill. Includes self-transfer - near transfer - and far transfer.






49. An ethnocultural group of people who have experiences different from those of the dominant culture.






50. The present period of time - in which sweeping advances in computer and information technology have transformed the economic - social - and cultural life of society.