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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Math word problems






2. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






3. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions






4. 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






5. 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.






6. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






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






8. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






9. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






10. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






11. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






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






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






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






15. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






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






17. 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.'






18. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






19. Mapping






20. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






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






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






23. Quadrant of comprehensible input






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






25. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






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






27. Hierarchy of needs






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






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






30. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






31. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






32. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






33. Theory of moral development






34. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






35. Follow the child






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






37. Writing






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






39. Congitively undemanding






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






41. The history or study of words.






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






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






44. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






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






46. Lower level questioning






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






48. (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






49. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






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