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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Stages of the ethic of care






2. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






3. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control






4. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






5. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities






6. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






7. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






8. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






9. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






10. Ability to understand sound structure of language






11. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






12. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






13. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






14. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






15. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






16. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






17. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






18. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






19. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






20. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






21. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






22. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






23. How long can a muscle produce force






24. Congitively undemanding






25. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






26. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






27. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






28. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






29. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






30. Quadrant of comprehensible input






31. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






32. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






33. Three levels of culture






34. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






35. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






36. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






37. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






38. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






39. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






40. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






41. Stages of cognitive development






42. Face to face conversation






43. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






44. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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45. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






46. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






47. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






48. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






49. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






50. Development of spoken language system