Physical Development
This is the increase in height in legs more than the trunk.
What is a growth spurt?
This is Piaget’s cognitive stage of development during which children first use mental operations to solve problems and to reason.
What is Concrete Operational Thinking?
This is the process of identifying a unique pattern of letters.
This is the sense of value or worth that people attach to themselves; judgement or opinion of ourselves.
What is self-esteem?
These are the 3 different types of agression.
What are:
Instrumental Aggression- used to a achieve a specific goal (push to get ahead of lunch line)
Reactive Aggression- when one child's behaviour leads to another child's aggression (loses game, kicks child who won)
Relational Aggression- hurting someone by damaging their social relationships (typically girls, gossiping)
This is when a person accumulates excessive fat that poses a risk to health. This can also lead to challenges in social and emotional well-being.
What is obesity?
This is the ability to focus one’s attention and screen out distractions advances steadily through middle childhood.
What is selective attention?
This is the ability to distinguish the distinctive sounds of letters.
What is phological awareness?
This is the pattern of low self esteem.
Academic failure > Criticism from others > Low confidence > Poor Self Esteem
If a child consistently breaks rules or violates rights of others, has a low tolerance for frustration and have temper flare ups and tend to blame other for their troubles, they may have this disorder.
What are conduct disorders?
This is the age that children should have 24 teeth.
What is age 12?
Sternberg’s theory about intelligence, as situated within a person’s socio-cultural environment are based on these three sub-theories.
What is experiential, componential, and contextual/practice?
These are some features of self regulating learning opportunities.
What is:
- Integrating across subject areas
- extend over time
- include students in making choices
- focus on large chunks of meaning (Big ideas)
- working towards multiple goals
Being liked by classmates, being more likely to share, and being socially skilled are all characteristics of this group of children
What are popular children?
This risk factor for increasing emotional arousal, aggressive behaviour, and violent thoughts can desensitize observers to violence; and it all starts in your living room!
What is media violence?
When a person accumulates excessive fat that poses a risk to health, this can also lead to challenges in social and emotional well-being. What is this called?
What is nearsightedness/ myopia?
This theory states there are many intelligences and each is presumed to have its neurological base in a different part of the brain. Each is an inborn talent that must be developed through educational experiences.
What is Gardner’s Theory of Multiple
Intelligence ?
These are some of the goals of school boards.
- Increase staff understanding of effective instruction and assessment in literacy and numeracy.
- Increase student understanding of effective learning strategies and how to use them.
Dropping out of school, low self esteem, and lacking social skills are all characteristics of this group of children
What are rejected children?
If a child is beginning to experience changes in feelings, physical health, thinking, and behaviour, they may be suffering from this mental illness.
What is childhood depression?
This institution plays the primary role in laying the foundation for good exercise.
What is school?
This testing method based on Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development measures a child's learning potential by having the child learn something new in the presence of the examiner and with their help.
What is Dynamic Testing?
These are some writing skills that develop gradually.
- Greater knowledge about topics
- Understanding how to organize writing
- Ease in dealing with the mechanical requirement
- Skills in revising
This is a negative view of others based on their membership in a specific group.
What is prejudice?
This is the most common mental health problem for children and youth.
What is an anxiety disorder?