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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






2. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






3. Classical conditioning






4. Drills and exercises






5. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






6. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






7. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






8. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






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






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






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






12. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






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






14. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






15. 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.'






16. Art






17. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






18. 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






19. 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






20. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






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






22. Begin working with decimals






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






24. How long can a muscle produce force






25. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






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






27. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






28. (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






29. Modeling






30. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






31. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






32. Connectionism






33. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






34. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






35. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






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






37. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






38. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






39. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






40. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






41. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






42. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






43. 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






44. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






45. 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






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






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






48. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






49. 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.






50. 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







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