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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab
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1. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word
free discovery method
Piaget - Jean (1896-1980)
Emergence Learning
phoneme substitution
2. Funds of knowledge
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
COPEC guidelines for physical education
demonstration
Moll - Luis
3. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication
aptitude test
Authentic Assessment
Input
sociology activities
4. The history or study of words.
Etymology
alternative assessment
Montessori - Maria
sociology activities
5. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment
Information Processing
Lau Plan
Pieget - Jean
economics curriculum goals
6. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication
fourth and fifth grade number sense
decoding
orthographic knowledge
social structures activities
7. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency
third grade number sense
guided inquiry
five results of print awareness
sociology activities
8. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity
Quadarant c and d
Direct Approach (teaching method)
observation
fourth level of physical education
9. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl
utilization
narrative texts include
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
Quadarant d
10. Art
two primary reasons for standards in the arts
Rime
Quadrant a
Pieget - Jean
11. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.
enrichment strategies
citizenship curriculum
Phonogram
Digraphs
12. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery
Input
Quadarant c
forecasting
Bandura - Albert
13. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned
transitional
phoneme categorization
addition strategies
achievement test
14. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language
Variable Competence Model (widdowson and ellis)
Guided Writing
Emergence Learning
Discourse Theory (Hatch)
15. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.
Functional - notional Approach
second level of physical education
key points in study of people
Direct Approach (teaching method)
16. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism
enrichment strategies
phonics instruction approach
decoding
transformation
17. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community
first grade number sense
Phoneme
locomotor skill progression
locomotor skills
18. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records
Quadarant c
Semantics
assessments for reading
Cummins
19. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education
The Silent Way (teaching method)
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
economics activities
domains of learning
20. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.
Pieget - Jean
Assimilation
narrative texts include
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
21. Multiplication and beginning division
third grade number sense
Reflective Teaching
transformation
Phonological Systemis important in both oral and written language. There are 26 letters and 44 sounds and many ways to combine the letters
22. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word
The Universal Hypothesis (Chomsky)
CALP
phonics instruction approach
phoneme addition
23. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj
core beliefs of mathematics education
five spelling stages
activities to gain language knowledge
Reading Approach (teaching method)
24. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.
Scaffolding
anthropology activities
Summative evaluation
ways to encourage citizenship
25. 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
discrepant event
Accretion Learning
social structures activities
achievement test
26. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin
standards - based assessment
Intake
Round - robin Reading
five results of print awareness
27. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action
Dewey - John (1859-1952)-
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
inquiry promotes
COPEC guidelines for physical education
28. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction
story problem steps
diagnostic assessment
process indicators
reading instruction should include
29. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
factors that predict reading achievement
Syntactic System
laboratory - experimentation
30. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words
Krashen's Natural Order Hypothesis
onset - rime phonics
primary components of learning geography
Phoneme
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.
Neurolinguistics Theory (Lamendella)
precommunicative spelling
things to include when completing tasks on probability and statistics
five levels of phonological awareness
32. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts
Quadrant a and b
number sense
focus of elementary math curriculum
how to develop number sense
33. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an
kindergarten place value
phoneme addition
Experiential Learning
Orthography
34. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization
Diphthongs
focus of physical education
primary components of learning geography
fraction instruction
35. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle
Acculturation Model (Shumann)
skills needed to decode
Whole Language
Morphemes
36. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions
Dewey - John
people - places and regions curriculum goals
Bandura - Albert
journal writing
37. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences
Classical Conditioning
literature analysis needs
Critical Thinking
morpheme
38. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language
poetry instruction helps
Erikson - Erik
reasons for use of computers and technology in science
Quadrant a
39. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel
Krashen Affective Filter Hypothesis
The Audiolingual Method (teaching method)
fraction manipulatives
economics curriculum goals
40. Amount of force a muscle can produce
muscular strength
phonetic
citizenship activities
Choral Reading
41. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them
fraction manipulatives
phoneme segmentation
Quadrant a
proficiency
42. Need to know o be functionsl
primary components of learning geography
Functional - notional Approach
Digraphs
Initial Blends
43. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert
third and fourth grade place value
narrative texts include
Gardner - Howard
fourth and fifth grade number sense
44. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue
developmental theory
strategies to help map reading
reactive
Dewey - John
45. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing
assessment of locomotor skills
three concepts for physical education curriculum
fourth level of physical education
Accretion Learning
46. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises
third level of physical education
Model of Second Language Learning and Use
Moll - Luis
performance tasks
47. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time
guided inquiry
Critical Thinking
core beliefs of mathematics education
geography curriculum goals
48. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information
explicit comprehension instructoin
embedded phonics
guided inquiry
physical fitness
49. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence
Reading Approach (teaching method)
precommunicative spelling
unifying processes of science
Total Physical Response (teaching method)
50. Context reduced
Quadarant b and d
third level of physical education
achievement test
models