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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






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






3. 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






4. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






5. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






6. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






7. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






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






9. Hierarchy of needs






10. 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.






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






12. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






13. 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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14. Physical education






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






16. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of






17. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






18. 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






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






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






21. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






22. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






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






24. Assertive discipline






25. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






26. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






27. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






28. 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






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






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






31. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






32. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






33. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






34. 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






35. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






36. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






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






38. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






39. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






40. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






41. 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






42. Congnitively demanding






43. Begin working with decimals






44. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






45. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






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






47. Lower level questioning






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






49. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






50. Context embedded