Use of educational methods that research has shown bring about gains in students' development and academic achievement.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
100
A strong and loving emotional bond between a child and caregiver. Considered essential for the healthy development of all future relationships.
What is Attachment?
100
In the brain, these have an unlimited capacity to form new connections. Over time they will both branch and be pruned.
What is a neuron?
100
Stage in Kohlberg's scheme in which moral behavior is based on a desire to avoid punishment.
What is pre-conventional moral reasoning?
100
Characterized by an absence of an identity yet with no apparent search for one, either.
What is identity diffusion?
200
Research that does not easily reduce to numbers; it typically involves an in-depth examination of complex ideas/phenomena
What is Qualitative Research?
200
Parenting style in which parents take responsibility for authority and set high standards for behavior but do it with warmth, explanation and consistent enforcement of the rules.
What is Authoritative Parenting?
200
The notion that children actively create their own knowledge, as well as their beliefs about the world through their interactions with it.
What is Constructivism?
200
Introduced the idea that moral reasoning and moral behavior may be different for women than for men.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
200
An integrated set of concepts or principles that allows us to explain and predict behavior, or intervene with a particular phenomena/behavior.
What is a Theory?
300
A study that examines the relationship between two or more variables in order to make predictions about one variable based on the movement of the other variable(s).
The process of dealing with new information/experience by altering a current schema or by building a new one.
What is Accommodation?
300
The ability to know how another person feels in a given situation.
What is empathy?
300
An organized set of facts or ideas about any given topic, for example "school," or "toy."
What is a schema?
400
Systematic studies of issues in one's own school with the goal of finding more effective strategies for working with students or finding solutions to one's own school's problems.
What is Action Research?
400
Stage of social-emotional development that teens are in according to Erik Erikson.
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
400
The stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory in which students are able to form and test multiple hypotheses and engage in higher-order mathematical reasoning.
What is Formal Operations?
400
Introduce moral dilemmas into course material; encourage perspective-taking & empathy; expose students to good role models; engage students in discussions in which there are no clear right or wrong answers.
What are some characteristics of adolescent thinking?
500
Any data set taken from information about a group of people can be represented via this kind of drawing.
What is a bell curve?
500
Identity status in which adolescents actively search for identity, considering options available that best reflect their belief systems and career choices
What is Moratorium?
500
When operating in this target area, students can perform tasks with assistance but not yet independently. It is the ideal range for teaching.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
500
Civil disobedience is a good example of this.
What is post-conventional reasoning?
500
The part of the brain that is responsible for strong emotions, such as the thrill gotten from risk-taking behavior