General
Behaviorism
Theory in which adult provides a model and children learn imitation and positive reinforcement.
AFT
What is American Federation of Teachers?
Lev S. Vygotsky
Described the influence of language, culture, and social interaction on children's learning. As learning takes place the zone widens. Zone of Proximal Development
B.F. Skinner believed that we learn through imitation and association, and conditioning.
True.
Assimilation
Incorporating information into already existing schemes. It is black and white with a bushy tail. It must be a skunk.
Child-Centered or (Progressive Education)
An approach focusing on needs of students rather than those of others, such as teachers and administrators
Name of Teacher Assessment Exam to get Certified in New Mexico.
Praxis ® Subject Assessment- Tests that measure general and subject-specific content knowledge that you need for beginning teaching.
Believed in child centered curriculum. Curriculum based on child's interest
John Dewey
Learning using the five senses of tough. Learn by using materials to achieve a goal.
What is the Maria Montessori training?
Scaffolding
A strategy in which teachers provide children with modeling and support to help them acquire a skill.
Name at least three strategies in reading.
Shared reading, Guided reading, oral reading, silent reading, independent reading, collaborative reading, performance reading
NEA
What is National Education Association?
Stressed the importance of play in learning.
Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel
Schema means organizing books by alphabetical order.
False- Schema is a mental structure in which a person organizes and stores info. he or she knows.
Explicit Instruction
a teacher-directed strategy on teaching a task and the specific steps needed to master it.
NAEYC
What is National Association for the Education of Young Children?
Alternative Paths
Teacher preparation provides timely, but somewhat controversial, routes to teacher certification.
Learning should be natural. Children will learn when developmentally ready.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Whole language instruction is teaching with the whole group of students rather than small group.
False-Strategies drawn from literacy development. Use of real literature, meaningful written and oral language.
Accommodation
Changing existing schemes to incorporate new information.
Name at least three types of classroom settings.
Whole group, Small group, one on one, Teacher directed, Centers, Social (with adults or peers)
Traditional Path
Become a teacher through a university-based teacher preparation program.
4 Levels of Cognitive Development (sensorimotor intelligence, Preoperational thought, Concrete Operations, Formal Operations
Who is Jean Piaget?
Reading readiness means when a child is ready to read a book.
False- Prerequisite skills such as auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, and motor skills needed to begin.
Constructivist
A theory that views learning as an active process. Construct knowledge by problem solving, guessing, and approximating.