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Drew Moon

Attachment

• Attachment is the feeling of being close to someone and the feeling of being safe near that person.

Bully

• A bully is someone who threatens another person or degrades another person.

Cyberbullying

• Cyberbullying is the threatening of someone through the use of technology.

Direct instruction

• Direct instruction is a form of instruction to teach a basic skill using different techniques that have defined borders.

English language learner

• An English language learner is a student who does not speak English fluently due to the fact they were not exposed to English before attending school.

Family educational rights and Privacy act

• In 1974, the government passed a law that gave students and parents the ability to look at school records but limits who else looks at their school records.

Giftedness

• Giftedness is the intelligence or high ability of students to the point that special classes are needed to help them reach their potential.

Hearing loss

• Hearing loss is the inability of a person to hear the sounds within the normal range of a human’s voice.

Illusion of knowledge

• Illusion of knowledge is a student thinking that they know a fact or idea but really has no idea what it is.

Jigsaw technique

• Jigsaw technique is a way to teach students a topic by dividing the material among the students and the students teach their peers.

Knowledge base

• Knowledge base is the information that one already possesses about certain subjects and the world around them.

Long-term memory

• Long-term memory is a part of a person’s memory that is not forgotten over a long period of time.

Mean

• Mean is the average of a group of numbers in math.

Neglected student

• A neglected student is one whom others do not care for one way or the other.

overgeneralization

• Overgeneralization is not narrowing down the topic that will be being addressed at that time.

Peer Pressure

• Peer pressure is the pressure put on a student to act or behave like their peers in a positive or negative manner.

Quantitative research

• Quantitative research is research that can be defined by numbers.

Rehearsal

• Rehearsal is a way of learning and remembering information by repeating that information over and over.

Self-talk

• Self-talk is a method of directing oneself through an assignment by talking to oneself.

Teacher directed instruction

• Teacher directed instruction is a method of teaching by a teacher who is in control of the material and the information that is learned in the class.

undergeneralization

• Undergeneralization is not having enough information to see the whole picture.

Visual imagery

• Visual imagery is the ability to see things in your mind.

Wait time

• Waiting time is the time that the instructor gives the students to think about the question asked previously.

xenophobia

• Xenophobia is the fear or mistrust of foreigners or strange things.

Youth activism

• Youth activism is a student who is active in the community in order to bring about change in the social climate.

Zone of proximal development (zpd)

• Zone of proximal development is a group of things that a student can do with the help of someone else but cannot do alone.