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Drill and Discussion are types of Method Options for Instruction? |
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| What are two levels of classroom planning? |
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| What revered educator assumed that learning is an active process? |
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| This type of approach to teaching sees the classroom from an external standpoint and assumes learning occurs because of something the teacher does to the student. |
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| This learning theory focuses on instruction on the needs and development stages of growth in the student. |
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Developmental Learning Theory |
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| This theory believes that the student, not the teacher, is the key to learning. |
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Linking new information to prior knowledge is a characteristic of teaching with a cognitive focus? |
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| An effort to involve teachers in instructional decision making and to make them more accountable for student achievement is known as? |
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School-based Management
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Decentralized Decision Making |
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According to a recent study, more than half of eigth-graders fail to achieve expected levels of proficiency in national reading, math, and science tests. |
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| The _____________ of elementary school is organized around the bases of knowledge, the needs of society, and human learning and development. |
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| An instructional technique designed to more effectively help students with individual differences is know as.. |
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| Name two types of grouping methods. |
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| Any of the following: A class as a whole, Reading level groups, Reading needs groups, Interest groups, Practice or tutorial groups, Research groups, or Individualization |
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| This type of grouping is formed to reading achievement levels. |
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True or False
A disadvantage to the Language Experience(an approach to teaching reading) is that it integrates all listening and speaking skills? |
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| What four communication skills make up Language Arts? |
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1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Listening
4. Speaking |
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True or False
Low reading groups tend to meet for a longer timeframe. |
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What are two types of teaching spelling in elementary schools?
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1. Invented Spelling
2. Memorization |
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| What type of education includes adaptive and developmental activities that lead to better coordination and psychomotor skills? |
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What three areas of a person does health and physical education improve?
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1. physical area
2. mental area
3. social area |
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What disorder is characterized by difficulty remaining seated, calling out without request, or interrupting others?
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Attention Deficit Disorder
(ADD) |
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| What act, passed in 1974, established a national policy on equal educational opportunity, as well as extended and amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act? |
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Education Consolidation Improvement Act (ECIA) |
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| Children identified to have outstanding abilities and are capable of high performance in the classroom are known as.. |
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What type of learning is used where children are trained to use one another as resources for learning?
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True or False
Effective elementary teachers can assess learning styles and address them by adding variety to their teaching activities? |
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What elementary grade-level model is most commonly used in the United States?
A. PreK-5
B. 1-6
C. K-5 |
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