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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






2. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






3. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con






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






5. Funds of knowledge






6. 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






7. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






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






9. Development of spoken language system






10. 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






11. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






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






13. 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






14. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






15. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






16. Counting to 100






17. Stages of the ethic of care






18. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises






19. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






20. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






21. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






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






23. Three levels of culture






24. Operant Conditioning






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






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






27. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






28. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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29. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

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






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






32. Discovery learning and constructivism






33. 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






34. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






35. Art






36. Experiential Learning






37. Multiple intelligences






38. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






39. Choice/control theory






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






41. Begin working with decimals






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






43. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






44. Social or observational learning theory






45. Follow the child






46. 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






47. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






48. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






49. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






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

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