TExES PPR EC-12 (160) DOMAIN 1
STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS
Domain I (Instruction, Assessment, & Student Learning) - ANSWER✔✔-
Focuses on the responsibility of the teacher to reach a diverse student body
by using well-considered, effective pedagogical(relative subject or concept)
methods and teaching strategies that take learners' developmental features
into account.
Competency 001 (Learner Characteristics) - ANSWER✔✔-The teacher
understands human development processes and applies this knowledge to
plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are
responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (SENSORIMOTOR) -
ANSWER✔✔-(Birth-2 years) Stage of development in which infants
develop reality-based schemes primarily through sense and motor
activities (e.g. reaching, grasping, & moving about). Culminates with the
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,development of object permanence and the beginning of representational
thought.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (PREOPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Preschool (2-7 years) Stage of development in which children
gradually acquire language development, symbolic functions/play, and
egocentrism. The child will ask many questions, represent objects/events
removed in time/space, increase in imaginative play, & inability to
understand another person's perspective.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (CONCRETE OPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Elementary grade (7-11 years) Stage of development in
which children are capable of operations, but solve problems by
generalizing from concrete experiences; they are not able to manipulate
conditions mentally unless they have been experienced. Integration of self
into physical and social environment. Achieves conservation of
number(age 6), mass (age 7), & weight (age 9).
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (FORMAL OPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Early Adolescence (11+ years) Stage of development in
which adolescents are able to deal with abstractions, form hypotheses,
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, solve problems systematically, engages in mental manipulations, and
thinks about the future.
Erickson's Stages of Development (1- TRUST v. MISTRUST) -
ANSWER✔✔-Infancy (0-18 months) A sense of trust requires a feeling of
physical comfort & minimal amount of fear about the future. Infant's basic
needs are met by responsive, sensitive caregivers.
Erickson's Stages of Development (2- AUTONOMY v. SHAME & DOUBT)
- ANSWER✔✔-Toddler (18 months-3 years) After gaining trust, infants
discover they have a will, the child begins to recognize boundaries that
must be observed in order to maintain cooperation with others. They assert
their sense of autonomy or independence. If restrained or punished too
harshly, they are likely to develop a sense of shame & doubt.
Erickson's Stages of Development (3- INITIATIVE v. GUILT) -
ANSWER✔✔-(3-6 years) The child recognizes what he or she is now able to
do which then leads to learning to initiate tasks and carry out plans or they
will feel guilty about efforts to be independent.
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STUDY GUIDE SOLUTIONS
Domain I (Instruction, Assessment, & Student Learning) - ANSWER✔✔-
Focuses on the responsibility of the teacher to reach a diverse student body
by using well-considered, effective pedagogical(relative subject or concept)
methods and teaching strategies that take learners' developmental features
into account.
Competency 001 (Learner Characteristics) - ANSWER✔✔-The teacher
understands human development processes and applies this knowledge to
plan instruction and ongoing assessment that motivate students and are
responsive to their developmental characteristics and needs.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (SENSORIMOTOR) -
ANSWER✔✔-(Birth-2 years) Stage of development in which infants
develop reality-based schemes primarily through sense and motor
activities (e.g. reaching, grasping, & moving about). Culminates with the
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,development of object permanence and the beginning of representational
thought.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (PREOPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Preschool (2-7 years) Stage of development in which children
gradually acquire language development, symbolic functions/play, and
egocentrism. The child will ask many questions, represent objects/events
removed in time/space, increase in imaginative play, & inability to
understand another person's perspective.
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (CONCRETE OPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Elementary grade (7-11 years) Stage of development in
which children are capable of operations, but solve problems by
generalizing from concrete experiences; they are not able to manipulate
conditions mentally unless they have been experienced. Integration of self
into physical and social environment. Achieves conservation of
number(age 6), mass (age 7), & weight (age 9).
Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development (FORMAL OPERATIONAL) -
ANSWER✔✔-Early Adolescence (11+ years) Stage of development in
which adolescents are able to deal with abstractions, form hypotheses,
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, solve problems systematically, engages in mental manipulations, and
thinks about the future.
Erickson's Stages of Development (1- TRUST v. MISTRUST) -
ANSWER✔✔-Infancy (0-18 months) A sense of trust requires a feeling of
physical comfort & minimal amount of fear about the future. Infant's basic
needs are met by responsive, sensitive caregivers.
Erickson's Stages of Development (2- AUTONOMY v. SHAME & DOUBT)
- ANSWER✔✔-Toddler (18 months-3 years) After gaining trust, infants
discover they have a will, the child begins to recognize boundaries that
must be observed in order to maintain cooperation with others. They assert
their sense of autonomy or independence. If restrained or punished too
harshly, they are likely to develop a sense of shame & doubt.
Erickson's Stages of Development (3- INITIATIVE v. GUILT) -
ANSWER✔✔-(3-6 years) The child recognizes what he or she is now able to
do which then leads to learning to initiate tasks and carry out plans or they
will feel guilty about efforts to be independent.
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