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Module 2 Crossword Puzzle
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Accommodation: A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise.
Affirmative action: Policies that attempt to promote equal opportunity members of minority groups and promote diversity, primarily in the workplace.
Anti bias: A curriculum that is an activist approach to educational curricula which attempts to challenge prejudices.
Assimilation: The process by which someone acquires the social and psychological characteristics of a group.
Autonomy: Independence.
Bandura: Created a social cognitive theory that moved beyond behaviorism to include self-efficacy as a shaper of human functioning and development.
Classification: A category into which something is put.
Comenius: John Amos ____.
Constructivism: A psychological theory largely attributed to the Swiss Jean Piaget. It postulates that humans construct their own knowledge, intelligence, and morality through a series of stages.
Critical Sensitive Period: A window of time during which a child is believed to learn a skill or gain an understanding with the least amount of effort and the greatest amount of receptivity.
Culture: The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
DAP: Teaching practices that take into account a child’s developmental stage, individual needs and interests, and culture.
DEC: Division of Early Childhood.
Dewey: United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952).
Diversity: Variety; a range of different things.
Egocentric: In early infancy, being able to differentiate between what is and is not the self. Later, understanding the world only as it relates to the self.
Emergent Curriculum: Curriculum that emerges from children’s interests and teachers’ understanding of children’s needs.
Interactionist: a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other.
Kohlberg: Creator of a theory of moral reasoning based on Piaget's early work in which the creation of logic and morality were observed to develop simultaneously and in corrdination.
Locke: English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704).
Maturationism: A psychological theory largely attributed to the U.S. psychologist Arnold Gesell. It holds that humans are biologically destined to mature in a regular, sequential pattern.
Montessori: a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods.
Multiple Intelligences: "The theory in practice."
Nature: Environmental
Nurture: Heredity
Negative Reinforcement: Instead of adding a rewarding consequence, as this opposite, something is taken away.
Norms: Age-related expectations for what children should know and be able to do. Norms are often used in scoring and interpretation of standardized tests of early development, comparing each child’s scores to those of a group of typically developing peers.
Pedagogy: An early word for teacher. Now, sometimes used to describe a dull, pedantic teacher or a curriculum specialist.
Pestalozzi: Swiss educational reformer whose teaching theories, based on respect and attention to the individual, laid the foundation for the reform of education in the 1800s.
Piaget: studied cognitive development of children.
Positive Reinforcement: The frequency of desired behaviors can be increased by giving special food, toys, praise, hugs, etc. the child sees.
Project Approach: A set of teaching strategies that enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics.
Reflective Practice: An important tool in practice-based professional learning settings where individuals learning from their own professional experience, rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer.
Reggio Emilia: These schools don't have established or approved curriculum and no set of materials to guide one's teaching.
Rousseau: Jean-Jacques ____.
Skinner: United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990).
Tabula Rasa: and absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
Vygotsky: Can be understood and discussed as a constructivist, but his life experiences and political inclinations led him to different conclusions as to how constructions are made.
Waldorf: Humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.
Whole Child: Understanding that children grow physically, emotionally, and intellectually as a _____ _____.
ZPD: Zone of Proximal Development.
Module 2 Crossword Puzzle
Across:2. | "The theory in practice." | 4. | Environmental | 7. | Creator of a theory of moral reasoning based on Piaget's early work in which the creation of logic and morality were observed to develop simultaneously and in corrdination. | 8. | a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other. | 11. | These schools don't have established or approved curriculum and no set of materials to guide one's teaching. | 13. | Age-related expectations for what children should know and be able to do. Norms are often used in scoring and interpretation of standardized tests of early development, comparing each child’s scores to those of a group of typically developing peers. | 15. | The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. | 16. | Swiss educational reformer whose teaching theories, based on respect and attention to the individual, laid the foundation for the reform of education in the 1800s. | 17. | Can be understood and discussed as a constructivist, but his life experiences and political inclinations led him to different conclusions as to how constructions are made. |
| 18. | Jean-Jacques ____. | 19. | A curriculum that is an activist approach to educational curricula which attempts to challenge prejudices. | 21. | studied cognitive development of children. | 22. | Variety; a range of different things. | 26. | John Amos ____. | 28. | Humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. | 29. | An important tool in practice-based professional learning settings where individuals learning from their own professional experience, rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer. | 30. | and absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate. |
| | Down:1. | The frequency of desired behaviors can be increased by giving special food, toys, praise, hugs, etc. the child sees. | 3. | Instead of adding a rewarding consequence, as this opposite, something is taken away. | 5. | The process by which someone acquires the social and psychological characteristics of a group. | 6. | Independence. | 9. | A category into which something is put. | 10. | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704). | 12. | A psychological theory largely attributed to the U.S. psychologist Arnold Gesell. It holds that humans are biologically destined to mature in a regular, sequential pattern. |
| 14. | Heredity | 16. | A set of teaching strategies that enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics. | 20. | United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990). | 23. | Created a social cognitive theory that moved beyond behaviorism to include self-efficacy as a shaper of human functioning and development. | 24. | Division of Early Childhood. | 25. | Teaching practices that take into account a child’s developmental stage, individual needs and interests, and culture. | 27. | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952). |
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Module 2 Crossword Puzzle
Across:2. | "The theory in practice." | 4. | Environmental | 7. | Creator of a theory of moral reasoning based on Piaget's early work in which the creation of logic and morality were observed to develop simultaneously and in corrdination. | 8. | a theory that the mind and the body may each affect the other. | 11. | These schools don't have established or approved curriculum and no set of materials to guide one's teaching. | 13. | Age-related expectations for what children should know and be able to do. Norms are often used in scoring and interpretation of standardized tests of early development, comparing each child’s scores to those of a group of typically developing peers. | 15. | The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group. | 16. | Swiss educational reformer whose teaching theories, based on respect and attention to the individual, laid the foundation for the reform of education in the 1800s. | 17. | Can be understood and discussed as a constructivist, but his life experiences and political inclinations led him to different conclusions as to how constructions are made. |
| 18. | Jean-Jacques ____. | 19. | A curriculum that is an activist approach to educational curricula which attempts to challenge prejudices. | 21. | studied cognitive development of children. | 22. | Variety; a range of different things. | 26. | John Amos ____. | 28. | Humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. | 29. | An important tool in practice-based professional learning settings where individuals learning from their own professional experience, rather than from formal teaching or knowledge transfer. | 30. | and absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate. |
| | Down:1. | The frequency of desired behaviors can be increased by giving special food, toys, praise, hugs, etc. the child sees. | 3. | Instead of adding a rewarding consequence, as this opposite, something is taken away. | 5. | The process by which someone acquires the social and psychological characteristics of a group. | 6. | Independence. | 9. | A category into which something is put. | 10. | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704). | 12. | A psychological theory largely attributed to the U.S. psychologist Arnold Gesell. It holds that humans are biologically destined to mature in a regular, sequential pattern. |
| 14. | Heredity | 16. | A set of teaching strategies that enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies of real world topics. | 20. | United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990). | 23. | Created a social cognitive theory that moved beyond behaviorism to include self-efficacy as a shaper of human functioning and development. | 24. | Division of Early Childhood. | 25. | Teaching practices that take into account a child’s developmental stage, individual needs and interests, and culture. | 27. | United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952). |
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