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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






2. 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






3. 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






4. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






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






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






7. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life






8. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






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






10. Art






11. 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.






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






13. Classical conditioning






14. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






15. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






16. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






17. 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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18. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






19. Writing






20. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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21. 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






22. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






23. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






25. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






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






27. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






28. How long can a muscle produce force






29. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






30. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






31. 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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32. 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.






33. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






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






35. 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.






36. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






37. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






38. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






39. Recogize separate sounds in words






40. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






41. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






42. 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






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






44. 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






45. Modeling






46. 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






47. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






48. Identify words that don't belong in a set






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






50. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive