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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






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

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4. Learning through experience






5. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






6. 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






7. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






8. Language Acquisition hypothesis






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






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






11. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






12. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






13. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






14. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






15. Construct understanding from the words






16. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






17. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






18. Writing






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






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






21. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






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






23. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






24. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






25. 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.






26. Math word problems






27. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






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






29. Art






30. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






31. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






32. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






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






34. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






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






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






37. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






38. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






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






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






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






42. Drills and exercises






43. Hierarchy of needs






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






45. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






46. (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






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






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






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






50. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities