How Children Succeed
Economists refer to this set of qualities which includes, persistence, self-control, grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, and self-confidence.
What is non-cognitive skills?
Repetition is good for learning but not for...
What is Motivation?
Acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities.
What is Learning?
This theory argues that African American students are incapable of excelling at the same academic level as White or Asian students because they are generally inferior.
What is the Deficit Deprivation Theory?
This program became increasingly popular for high-school dropouts to earn the equivalent of high-school diplomas.
What is GED General Educational Development?
Problem solving, reasoning, reading something complex, or doing any mental work that requires some effort. It is the hardest work there is.
What is Problem Solving.
When the brain coverts your perceptions into chemical and electrical changes that form mental representations of the patterns you have observed.
What is encoding?
Inferior educational outcomes are tolerated for African American children day in and out, in inner-city, suburban, and private school settings can lead to...
What is Low Teacher Expections?.
This term tracks how often students swore, lied, stole, or was absent or late.
What is personal behavior?
Functions of this do not require thought (vision or movement), you do not have to reason about what you see; and you are biased to use memory to guide your actions rather than to think.
What is the Brain?
The possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it
What is Mastery?
Over time, negative teacher attitudes and low expectations cultivate this.
What is Learned Helplessness?
Rating of these skills help determine student’s level of curiosity as well as his or her relationship with classmates and teachers.
What is social development?
The vast storehouse in which you maintain your factual knowledge of the world.
What is Long-Term Memory?
These strategies in learning interrupts forgetting.
What is retrieval testing?
When students prior knowledge is linked to new information this occurs.
What is Reading Comprehension?
The wear and tear on your body over time from the exposure to chronic stress.
What is allostatic load?
Knowledge of the mental procedures necessary to execute tasks.
What is Procedural Knowledge?
This process reorganizes and stabilizes memory traces, giving them meaning, and makes connections to past experiences and to other knowledge already stored in long-term memory.
What is Consolidation?
When students are accepted as they are and to move them gradually to the targeted skill level teachers are using ...
What is the Theory of Using Small Wins? Or this can be equated to Scaffolding.