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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






3. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






4. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






5. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






6. 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.






7. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






8. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






9. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






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






11. Hierarchy of needs






12. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






13. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






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






15. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






16. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






17. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






18. Mapping






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






20. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






21. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






22. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






23. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






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






25. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






26. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






27. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






28. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






29. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






30. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






31. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






32. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






33. Stages of cognitive development






34. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






35. Classical conditioning






36. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






37. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






38. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






39. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






40. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






41. Advance organizer






42. Models or visual examples of the information






43. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






44. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






45. 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






46. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






47. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






48. How long can a muscle produce force






49. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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50. Multiplication and beginning division