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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






2. Children learn through their observations of others






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






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






5. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






6. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






7. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






8. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






9. Zone of proximal development






10. Reading






11. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






12. 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






13. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






14. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher.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






15. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






16. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)


17. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






18. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






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






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






21. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






22. Congitively undemanding






23. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






24. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






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






26. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






27. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






33. Experiential Learning






34. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






35. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






36. 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






37. 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






38. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






39. Writing






40. Counting to 100






41. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.


42. Stages of the ethic of care






43. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






44. Direct instruction






45. 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.






46. 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






47. How long can a muscle produce force






48. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






49. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






50. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure