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100 Cards in this Set
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Advanced Organizer
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A structure that provides teacher and/or students with advanced notice on what is to come.
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Analogy
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A comparison using two things.
Kittens are to Cats as ___________ are to Dogs |
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Collaborate (Collaboration)
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To work together with either another teacher, students, or PLC.
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Critical thinking
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Thinking about a subject to a deeper level.
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Curriculum
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Writing lesson plans for what a set amount of teacher are supposed to teach in a particular subject.
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Discourse
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verbal expression in either speech or writing
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Domain
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A specific group, area, or subject
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Eclectic
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Having a hog-pog of sources
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Empower (Empowerment)
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When a person feels that they are confident to speak or act in their specific field.
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Explicit
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Direct and clearly defined
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Feedback
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Writing or talking with students about how to either improve their paper or the positives about their paper.
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Graphic Organizer
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Used for helping students organize their ideas or for visual learners. A handout that helps students graph out their assigment and then visually allows them to put it in order.
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Heterogeneous Grouping
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Grouping students who have different abilities.
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Homogeneous Grouping
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Grouping students with similar abilities.
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Implicit
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Something is implied but never directly expressed.
Ex: students should know to write their names on paper before turning them in so that they get credit. |
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Impulsivity
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Blurting out an answer without using one's mental filter beforehand.
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Instruction
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How teachers teach the class, in what order, the lesson cycle.
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Internalize
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To absorb the information that is being taught by attaching it to previous learning or something that is important to one's self.
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Learner-Centered or Student Centered
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Teaching style that emphasizes the student's needs.
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Modality (Modalities)
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Learning stles of students: visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic
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Objectivity
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Taking in information without judging or taking a side
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Paradigm
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An example or pattern for thinking
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Pedagogy
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The art, profession, or study of teaching
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Precocious
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Someone that is an eager beaver or an overachiever
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Proficiency
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To demonstrate correctly a skill
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Project Learning
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A small group project or individually assigned project to a student or students can do instead of paperwork to show/prove mastery of information.
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Rationale
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Reason or information behind a rule or lesson.
We tell students the reason why they can't go off campus for lunch is because either students don't come back or students have been involved in fatal automobile accidents. |
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Reflection
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To think back on a subject or incident and analyze that situation.
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Rote Learning
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Memorizing facts
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Scope
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Amount covered by a given activity or subject.
Ex: Scope and Sequences tells the teachers of the same subject what to teach and how long it will take to teach it. |
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Self-Directed Learning
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Slowly shifting responsibilities to the students from the teacher through classroom activities that have complex patterns of thought.
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Student Ownership
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When a student is confident and knowledgable to take ownership of his/her own learning.
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Subjectivity
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Based on what someone feels instead of cold, hard facts.
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Teacher-Centered
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Traditional style of teaching: lecturing.
When students sit and the teacher lectures |
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Technology
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Devices used to electronically enhance the quickness of knowledge.
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Terminology (Terminologies)
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Vocabulary for a specific subject.
Ex: Math terminology such as "rise" and "run" |
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Vicarious Learning
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Learning by watching someone else.
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Accommodation
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Learning by changing existing knowledge structures.
Ex: SPED students will need to have accommodated work to understand the gist a story. |
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Acculturation
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Blending a nature culture with a new culture. Keeping elements of both.
Ex: Muslim students might find it difficult to find time to pray in school, fast for the end of Rosh Hashanah, or being let out for two week for Christmas Break. |
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Adolescence
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being a kid or teenager
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Affective Domain
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feelings, emotions, values, and attitudes
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Assimilation
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Learning by adding new information onto previously learned information.
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Biracial or Multiracial
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Being of two or more races or ethnic groups
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Cognitive Domain
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Memory, reasoning, and thinking abilities
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Constructivism
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student-centered learning; students construct knowledge for themselves.
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Cultural Pluralism
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A system in which many different cultural groups are valued and share power.
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Culture
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A way of life shared by members of the same group.
Can include values, beliefs, and attitudes. |
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Development
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Changes that take place.
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Developmentally Appropriate or Age Appropriate
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Taking into consideration the age and development of the child before providing inappropriate or appropriate material.
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Diversity
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Variety of different groups within the same setting.
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Egocentric
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Self-Centered in adults or children.
Thinking that the world only revolves around that person. |
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Ethnic Group or Ethnicity
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A social group defined by their religious, national, or cultural characteristics.
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Field-Dependent
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Preferring to learn with others
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Field-Independent
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Preferring to learn without others
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Guided Practice
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Practicing under the direction of the teacher.
The teacher shows how to do the new skill and then watches as the student does the skill. The teacher provides feedback. |
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Higher Level Thinking Skills
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HOTS!
Blooms! |
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Interdisciplinary Unit
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A unit that covers two or more subjects in a project.
Ex: My last class had a thematic unit over the Holocaust that covered Social Studies TEKS and ELAR TEKS. |
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Kinesthetic (Tactile) Learners
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Students who learn best by movement or that are hands-on.
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KWL
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What do you KNOW?
What do you WANT to know? (After reading) What did you LEARN? |
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Maturation or Development
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The process of growing and changing.
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Melting Pot Theory
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A theory that cultures should blend the most popular culture and lose all of its uniqueness.
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Metacognition
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Thinking about thinking.
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Modeling
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A teacher or student demonstrates a skill in order to others to understand.
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Prejudice
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Positive/Negative preconceived ideas about a group of people.
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Psychomotor Domain
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Physical activities or skills
Ex: Learning vocabulary with hand motions to help remember the words. |
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Salad Bowl Theory
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Theory that cultures can mix, but can still maintain their uniqueness.
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Scaffolding
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Thick support for a subject in the beginning only to be slowly taken away for the student to take over and demonstrate proficiency.
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Schema (Schemata)
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Mental structures for organizing concepts and relationships.
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Self-Actualization
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Realizing and reaching one's true and full potential.
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Self-Concept
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One's perception of themselves (neither good nor bad)
Ex: I ate all the ice cream in the house and now I am a cow. |
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Self-Efficacy
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Self-confidence that one can succeed.
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Self-Esteem
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Feelings about ourselves.
(high or low) |
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Stereotype
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Assumption or preconceived idea of a group of people.
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Tactile Learners
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Students who learn best through using their hands.
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Zone of Proximal Development
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Difference between what a student can do alone and with help from others.
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Adaption
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The process of changing to make something better or different.
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Anorexia Nervosa
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An eating disorder in which the person severly limits his/her intake of food.
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Assisted Learning/ Guided Participation
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Processes used by a teacher to help student understand the material on his/her level.
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Bulimia
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Eating disorder that allows the person to gorge on food and then has the person self-induce vomiting.
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Clique
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Group of peers who share similar values.
Ex: Band nerds, football players, goth kids |
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Cognitive Development
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Changes in mental processes.
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Concerete Operational
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Piaget's idea that kids understanding goes from concrete to abstract.
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Crowd
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Large group of peers. Not close friends, but people with similar interests that hang out.
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Disequilibrium
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State of unbalance that occurs after an interaction with the environment that conflicts with our prior representation of events.
Ex: finding out your parents are perfect |
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Equilibration
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The constant search for a balance between what we already know and some new knowledge or experience.
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Formal Operation
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Piaget's stage where a student can think logically using abstract ideas and concepts.
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Identity vs. Identity Confusion
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Erikson stage where the child is asking and trying to answer the question of "Who am I?"
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Imaginary Audience
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Student's belief that everyone is as concerned about their behavior and appearance as they are.
Ex: Boys trying to fix their hair for 20 minutes to make sure it looks like they don't care. |
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Industry vs. Inferiority
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Erikson stage in which students emerge either feeling eager to engage in productive work or feeling incompetent in dealing with social situations and with their peers.
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Organization
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Arranging things to make sense to a person.
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Peer Network
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A larger group of peers in which students associate.
Ex: Being a band member in a 250 person high school band. |
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Personal Fable
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A child's belief that they are special in the sense of being unique, invulnerable, and omnipotent.
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Physical Development
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Changes in the human body.
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Prepubescence
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A time in a child's life before they hit puberty
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Private Speech
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Vygotsky- self-talk-When children or adults talk to themselves to problem solve.
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Puberty
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When an individaul becomes physiologically capable of sexual reproduction.
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Reflectivity
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The tendency to think about what is going on in one's own mind and to study one's self.
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Self-Concept
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Conscious, cognitive preception and evaluation of oneself.
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Social Development
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Changes that occur in a human as they interact with others.
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Stage of Moral Reasoning
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Levels of thinking processes related to judgments of right or wrong.
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