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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






2. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






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






4. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






5. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






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






7. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






8. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






9. Multiple intelligences






10. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






11. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






12. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






13. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






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






15. (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






16. Art






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






18. 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.






19. Children learn through their observations of others






20. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






21. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






22. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






23. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






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






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






26. 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






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






28. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






29. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






30. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






31. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






32. Discovery learning and constructivism






33. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






34. Need to know o be functionsl






35. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






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






37. 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






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






39. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials






40. 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






41. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






42. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






43. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






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






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






46. Eight stages of human development






47. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






48. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






49. 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






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