ABC’s Book

Wendy Harp

Aggressive behavior

• Aggressive behavior-Action to intentionally hurt someone either psychologically or physically.

Bully

• Bully- A child who frequently threatens, harasses, or causes injury to particular classmates.

Cognitive process

• Cognitive process-A way of thinking about and mentally responding to a certain event or information.

Differentiated instruction

• Differentiated instruction-Individualizing instruction and possibly content to assist each student’s existing knowledge, skills, and needs.

Ethnic group

• Ethnic group- People that have common values, beliefs, historical roots, and behaviors and that share a sense of interdependence.

Formal assessment

• Formal assessment- Preplanned attempt to determine what students know and can do.

Giftedness

• Giftedness- High ability or aptitude in one or more subjects, and may require certain services in special education in order to help them reach their full potential.

Hearing loss

• Hearing loss- Malfunction of the ears or nerves that may interfere with sounds within the frequency range of normal human speech.

Individualized education plan

• Individualized education plan- A written description of appropriate instructional program for students with special needs.

Jigsaw technique

• Jigsaw technique- A way to teach students materials by dividing them into groups and having the students help to teach their peers.

Knowledge base

• Knowledge base- A person’s existing knowledge about specific topics and the world.

Learning strategy

• Learning strategy- One or more cognitive processes that is used intentionally for a learning task.

Misbehavior

• Misbehavior- Action that interferes or disrupts learning or classroom activities, and puts students’ safety in jeopardy, or violates moral standards.

Neglected student

• Neglected student- A student that most peers have no positive or negative feelings towards.

Overt strategy

• Overt strategy- Learning strategy that is apparent in a child’s behavior(taking notes).

Peer tutoring

• Peer tutoring- When one student provides instruction to another student in order to help them.

Quantitative research

• Quantitative research- Research that can be defined or reduced to numbers.

Reciprocal teaching

• Reciprocal teaching- A way of teaching reading and listening comprehension and students take turns asking teacherlike questions of their classmates.

Scaffolding

• Scaffolding- Support that helps learners successfully perform a task that may be challenging.

Theory of mind

• Theory of mind- Understanding of one’s own and other people’s psychological and mental states ( feelings and thoughts).

Undergeneralize

• Undergeneralize- Too narrow of a view of the objects or events that a concept includes.

Visual imagery

• Visual imagery- Forming images or mental pictures of objects or ideas.

Wait time

• Wait time- The length of time a teacher pauses, either after asking a question or hearing a student’s response, before saying something.

Test anXiety

• Test anxiety- Anxiety about a particular test or assessments.

Self-EfficacY• Self-efficacY: Belief that one is capable of

executing certain behaviors or achieving certain goals.

Zone of proximal development

• Zone of proximal development- Range of task that a student can perform with guidance of others but can not yet perform on their own.