| aggressiveness | The quality of dominating power that results in pushing forward (sometimes in hostile, harmful, attacks) without regard to the welfare of the other person or persons.
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| antibias focus | An activist approach to valuing diversity and promoting equity by teaching children to accept, respect, and celebrate diversity as it relates to gender, race, culture, language, ability, and so on.
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| assertiveness | The quality of standing up for one's own needs and wants in ways that recognize and respect what other people need and want.
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| assisted performance | A concept described by Russian researcher Lev Vygotsky that suggests that children cannot perform as well on their own in some cases as they can when they receive a bit of help from a more skilled person.
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| feedforward | A guidance tool that helps children understand beforehand what consequences might result from certain behavior (often unacceptable behavior).
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| modeling | A teaching device and guidance tool in which an adult's attitude or behavior becomes an example the child consciously or unconsciously imitates.
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| zone of proximal development | According to Lev Vygotsky, the gap between a child's current performance and his or her potential performance if helped by a more competent person--child or adult.
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