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Teaching Strategies

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. The degree to which individuals understand what they have read or heard; the ability to grasp the meaning of a verbal or nonverbal message.






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






5. 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






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






7. A preconceived notion about the abilities of women and men that prevent individuals from pursuing their own interests and achieving their potentials.






8. 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.






9. Learning information over successive periods of time - which is much more effective for remembering facts and forging memories than massed practice or cramming which does not allow for long-term recall of information






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






11. Factors that influence an individual's identification with an ethnic group and that cause the individual to share a group's worldview - such as SES - physical characteristics - educational status - occupational status - and place of residence.






12. A systematic and continuous process by which the significance of something is judged; the process of collecting and using information to determine what has been accomplished and how well it has been accomplished to guide decision making.






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






14. 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.






15. A huge global computer network - of which the WWW is a component - established to allow transfer of information from one computer to another. It provides a diverse range of services used to deliver information to large numbers of people and to enable






16. 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.






17. A method of instruction used by a teacher to provide or design teaching materials and activities that guide the learner in independently achieving the objectives of learning.






18. 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.






19. One of three classifications of instructional settings in which health care is an incidental or supportive function of an organization - such as a business - industry - and school system.






20. The process of recognizing and selecting appropriate or inappropriate stimuli.






21. 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






22. The ability to read and interpret numbers.






23. 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.






24. One of three domains in the taxonomy of behavioral objectives which is concerned with the physical activities of the body - such as coordination - reaction time - and muscular control - related to the acquisition of a skill or task.






25. 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.






26. Intended outcomes of the educational process that are action oriented rather than content oriented and learner centered rather than teacher centered.






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






28. A type of model that conveys a message to the learner through the use of abstract constructs - like words that stand for the real thing. Cartoons and printed materials are examples of symbolic forms of a message.






29. A complete loss or a reduction in sensitivity to sounds by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.






30. A single - specific - unidimensional behavior that is short term in nature - which should be achievable at the conclusion of one teaching session or within a matter of a few days following a series of teaching sessions.






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






32. The physical form of instructional materials - including durable equipment used to present these materials - such as film and projectors - audiotapes - and tape players and computer programs and computers.






33. One of three classifications of institutional settings - in which healthcare-related services are offered as a complementary function of a quasi-health agency. Examples: American heart association - American cancer society - etc.






34. 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.






35. Difficulty with voluntary muscle control of speech due to damage to the CNS or PNS that controls muscles essential to speaking and swallowing.






36. Evidence derived from research that is generalizable beyond a particular study setting or sample.






37. The overall plan for a teaching-learning experience that involves the use of one or several methods of instruction to achieve the desired learning outcomes.






38. A desirable outcome to be achieved by the learner at the end of the teaching-learning process; global - more future oriented and long term in nature






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






40. Refers to how well an individual can read - interpret - and comprehend health information for maintaining an optimal level of wellness.






41. Non-print instructional media that can influence all three domains of learning and stimulate the senses of hearing and/or sight to help convey the message to the learner. 5 major types: projected - audio - video - telecommunications - and computer fo






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






43. 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.






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






45. A systematic and continuous assessment of success of the teaching process made during the implementation of materials - methods - and activities to control - ensure - or improve the quality of performance in delivery of an educational program.






46. A method of teaching whereby learners get together to exchange information - feelings - and opinions with one another and with the teacher.






47. 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.






48. The total inability of adults to read - write - or comprehend information or whose reading and writing skills are at or below the fourth grade level.






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






50. A record of an individual's improvement in psychomotor skill development made by measuring his or her ability at different stages during a specific time period - which includes 6 stages: negligible progress - increasing gains - plateau - renewed gain