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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Discovery learning and constructivism






2. Multiple intelligences






3. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within






4. Operant Conditioning






5. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






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






7. Quadrant of comprehensible input






8. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






9. Three levels of culture






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






11. 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






12. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






13. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






14. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






15. 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.






16. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






17. Physical education






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






19. Begin working with decimals






20. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






21. Art






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






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






24. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






25. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






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






27. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






28. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






29. Region/area - length - set






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






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






32. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






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






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






35. Recogize separate sounds in words






36. 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






37. Funds of knowledge






38. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






39. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






40. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






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






42. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






43. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






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






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






46. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






47. Lower level questioning






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






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






50. Modeling