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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






2. Multiplication and beginning division






3. Art






4. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






5. Mapping






6. Stages of the ethic of care






7. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






8. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






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






10. The history or study of words.






11. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






12. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






13. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






14. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






15. Math word problems






16. Context reduced






17. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)

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18. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






19. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






20. 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






21. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






22. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






23. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






24. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






25. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






26. Coined by Piaget to identify a process that regulates tension between assimilation (information) and accommodation (learning). Equilibration implies that individuals learn through experiences somewhat different from previous experiences. Thus - their






27. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






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






29. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






30. 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.






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






32. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






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






34. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






35. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






36. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






37. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






38. Congitively undemanding






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






40. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






41. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






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






43. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






44. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






45. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






46. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






47. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






48. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






49. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






50. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






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