Orientation to Teaching Unit 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Advanced Placement classes | courses students take in high school that allow them to earn college credit |
| At-risk students | students in danger of failing to complete their education with the skills necessary to survive in modern society |
| Attention Deficit Disorder | a learning disability characterized by difficulty in concentrating on learning |
| Attention span | the length of time a person can concentrate on any one thing |
| Behavior disorder | refers to any visible activities done by a child that are inappropriate in nature |
| Child abuse | physical, emotional, or sexual violence against children |
| Child neglect | failure to meet a child's physical or emotional needs |
| Cognitive Development | Intellectuial development process that refers to the growth of the brain and the use of mental skills |
| Confidentiality | ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access |
| Diversity | refers to the great variety of people and their backgrounds, experiences, opinions, religions, ages, talents and abilities |
| Dyslexia | a learning disability in which a person is unable to understand printed symbols in a normal way |
| English Language Learner | a general instructional approach involving programs in which students are provided with supplementary English instruction or modified instruction in content areas |
| Emotional development | a developmental process that refers to the abilithy to experience, express and control emotiuons |
| Gifted and talented | exceptional learners who demonstrate high intelligence, high creativity, high achievement, or special talents |
| Heterogeneous | the grouping of students by their different abilities, skills, and levels of knowledge |
| Homogeneous | the grouping of students who have the same basic abilities, skills, and level of knowledge |
| Inclusion | enrolling special needs children into all areas of the curriculum |
| Individualized Education Plan | a plan for meeting an exceptional learner's educational needs |
| Large motor skills | the use and control of the muscles of the back, legs, shoulders, and arms |
| Learning disability | a problem in a person's mental process that prevents learning in a normal way |
| Least restrictive environment | an educational program that meets a disabled student's special needs in a manner that is as identical as is possible to that provided to students in the general education classroom |
| Mainstreaming | the policy and process of integrating disabled or otherwise exceptional learners into regular classrooms with non-exceptional students |
| Moral development | a development process that refers to the ability to know right from wrong |
| Multiculturalism | a set of beliefs based on the importance of seeing the world from different cultural frames of reference and valuing the diversity of cultures |
| Perception | the ability to learn from the senses |
| Physical development | a developmental process that refers to the physical growth of a person's body. |
| Psychosoial development | the progression of an individual through various stages of psychological and social development |
| Self-contained classroom | an organizational structure of schools in which one teacher instructs a group of students in a single classroom |
| Sensory motor skills | skills that are developed throught the interaction of the senses and the environment |
| Small motor skills | an ability that depends on the use and control of the finer muscles of the wrist, finger, and ankles |
| Social development | a developmental process that refers to the way people relate to others around them |
| Special education | a teaching specialty for meeting the special educational needs of exceptional learners |
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