| A | B |
|---|
| behaviors | Ways of acting or responding. |
| caregivers | Parents and others who take care of children. |
| child development | The study of how children master new skills. |
| adolescence | The stage of life between childhood and adulthood. |
| developmental tasks | Challenge that must be met or skill developed at a particular stage of life. |
| environment | The people, places and things that surround and influence a person. |
| heredity | The passing on of certain characteristics from earlier generations. |
| neurons | Nerve cells. |
| self-esteem | How you value yourself. |
| sequence | A step-by-step pattern. |
| anecdotal record | A method of writing observations in which the observer writes down all the behaviors that have to do with one issue only. |
| baseline | A frequency count taken before any steps are taken to change the behavior being count. |
| confidentiality | Privacy. |
| developmental checklist | A method of writing observations in which the observer identifies a series of specific skills or behaviors that a child of a certain age should master and checks of those that are observed in a particular child. |
| frequency count | A method of writing observations in which the observer tallies how often a certain behavior occurs. |
| interpret | To find meaning in, explain or make sense of something. |
| objective | Using facts not personal feelings or prejudices to describe things. |
| running record | A method of writing observations in which the observer writes down for a set period of time everything observed about a particular child, group or teacher. |
| subjective | Using personal opionings or feelings, rather than facts to judge or describe things. |
| aptitudes | A person's special talents and abilities. |
| entry level job | A beginning position in a field, one which required limited education and training. |
| lifelong learner | Person who spends his or her entire life learning new information. |
| paraprofessional | A worker with education beyound high school thatt trains him or her for a certain field. |
| service learning | A program that combines some form of community service with school work. |
| systems | Complex networks of people or objects that interact with each other. |
| work environment | The physical and social surrounding at the workplace. |
| work based learning | A program in which students combine in-school and on-the-job training. |
