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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Operant conditioning






2. 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






3. Funds of knowledge






4. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






5. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'






6. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.






7. Quadrant of comprehensible input






8. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






9. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






10. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






11. How long can a muscle produce force






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






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






14. Direct instruction






15. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






16. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






17. Multiple intelligences






18. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






19. 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






20. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships






21. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






22. 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






23. Stages of cognitive development






24. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






25. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






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






27. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






28. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






29. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






30. Reading






31. Drills and exercises






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






33. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






34. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






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






36. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






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






38. Proficiency of the academic Language






39. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships






40. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






42. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






43. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






45. Need to know o be functionsl






46. Art






47. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






48. Language Acquisition hypothesis






49. 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






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