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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






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






3. Math word problems






4. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






5. The history or study of words.






6. 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).






7. Eight stages of human development






8. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






9. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






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






11. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






12. Zone of proximal development






13. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






14. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






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






16. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






17. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






18. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






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






20. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






21. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






22. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






23. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






24. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






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






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






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






28. 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






29. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






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

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31. Follow the child






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






33. 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






34. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






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






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






37. 'with - it - ness'






38. 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






39. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






40. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






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






42. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






43. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






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






45. 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






46. Physical education






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






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






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






50. How long can a muscle produce force







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