EAS

Question 1

Behaviorism

Answer 1

People’s behavior is driven by rewards

Question 2

Positive reinforcement

Answer 2

giving something that you want to enforce good behavior

Question 3

Negative reinforcement

Answer 3

Taking away something that you do not want to enforce good behavior

Question 4

Positive punishment

Answer 4

giving something that you do not want

Question 5

Extinction

Answer 5

if rewards and punishments are withdrawn for a period of time, behavior often stop in a process known as extinction.

Question 6

Constructivism

Answer 6

People construct knowledge through experience through the world not through a lecture

Question 7

Social learning

Answer 7

learning through working with others

Question 8

Zone of Proximal Development

Answer 8

learning from someone who is slightly ahead of you

Question 9

Project Based Learning ( PBL)

Answer 9

Working together to find solutions to problems

Question 10

Humanism

Answer 10

People want to learn and grow to their fullest potential

Question 11

Self Directed Learning

Answer 11

motivating a student to learn with something that their interested in.
• Students do not want to learn about things that they are not interested in
• Grades replaced with self-evaluation
• What they have done and what they can do to still improve

Question 12

Lifelong learner

Answer 12

wanting to learn well after school

Question 13

Information Processing

Answer 13

Information from the world around us moves from sensory storage to working memory to long-term memory
EX: reading is sensory ( how words look on the page) > remembers what she just read a second ago > remembering what she read longer than a few seconds (stored to access later)

Question 14

Cognitive Load

Answer 14

having too much in working memory and not being able to remember anything
• Encourage attention and rehearsal to avoid cognitive load
• Only present a few things at a time
• Chunk material to group information to make it easier to remember

Question 15

Automaticity

Answer 15

making a task automatic
• Secret to it: through sustained regular practice (word recognition)

Question 16

Pragmatism

Answer 16

Education should be about life and growth (things that are practical and will help them learn and grow)

Question 17

Practical learning

Answer 17

education should apply to the real world
Making it applicable to the environment that your students live in

Question 18

Experiential Learning

Answer 18

discovering knowledge through experience

Question 19

Progressivism

Answer 19

Education comes from the experience of the child
Student should be an active component to their education

Question 20

(Progressivism) The Whole Child

Answer 20

Students to be good citizens and good learners
• Learning their home life and who they are.
• Teaching how to be a good person and values, morals, faith, honesty
• The center of gravity is around each child’s needs.
• Teaching to each child’s strengths

Question 21

Active Learning

Answer 21

contribute to the curriculum through the formation of questions and seeking answers. AKA Scientific Method.

Question 22

Realism

Answer 22

There is a true reality and things exist whether humans perceive it or not.
Heavy emphasis on math and science
Inquiry ability to formulate a question
Use logical processes in the natural world to find truth
• Taking students outside to a hill and asking them to find the slope

Question 23

Educational realism

Answer 23

we should study logic critical thinking and scientific method to teach students to perceive and understand reality
Inquiry ability to formulate a question
• Use logical processes in the natural world to find truth
• Taking students outside to a hill and asking them to find the slope

Question 24

Connectionism

Answer 24

Stimulus vs response
Stimulus is something that caused a reaction
Response is just a reaction to a stimulus
• Learning is about responding to stimuli

Question 25

Three Laws of connectionism

Answer 25

Law of effect
Law of exercise
Law of readiness

Question 26

Law of effect

Answer 26

The stimulus and response are connected in someone’s mind
• Stimulus - Response Bond ( the stronger this is, the better someone has learned the lesson)
• EX. Studying = good grade , not studying = bad grade
• The student learns that studying leads to good grades
• Rewarding a student who works hard gets a reward and the ones who don’t work hard don’t get a reward

Question 27

Law of exercise

Answer 27

• Practice makes perfect
• More you do something, the stronger the S-R bond.

Question 28

Law of Readiness

Answer 28

• S-R bonds are stronger if an individual is ready to learn

Question 29

Why students might not be ready to learn ?

Answer 29

• Hungry, tired, distracted
• Take the time to transition the kids to get ready to learn
• Transitions are so important to help them prepare to learn.

Question 30

Knowing you students - Learner centered classrooms

Answer 30

Students are the focus of all activities and learning with the teacher as the facilitator.
By knowing your students,you can come up with creative ways to get them the information that they need

Question 31

Family relationships

Answer 31

You can create partnerships so that the student has a better chance to succeed at home as well.

Question 32

Meeting Student Needs

Answer 32

When developing learning programs please consider
Student needs, student backgrounds, student perspectives, student interests.

Question 33

Learning objectives

Answer 33

things her students are expected to master

Question 34

Learner profile

Answer 34

who they are, learning styles
• Different teaching methods
• Small and large group situations
• Varying methods to show their understanding.

Question 35

Background knowledge what students already know

Answer 35

Schema thoughts students already have about the topic
• Using prior knowledge to help students understand a topic
• Using a goalkeeper of a soccer team to explain parts and wholes of fractions