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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






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






3. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






4. Music






5. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






6. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






7. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






8. Modeling






9. Operant Conditioning






10. Social or observational learning theory






11. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






12. 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.






13. Amount of force a muscle can produce






14. Region/area - length - set






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






16. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






17. 'with - it - ness'






18. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






19. Language Acquisition hypothesis






20. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






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






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






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






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






25. Development of spoken language system






26. Congnitively demanding






27. Art






28. Congitively undemanding






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






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






31. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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






33. 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






34. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






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






36. Context reduced






37. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






38. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






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






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






41. 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






42. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






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






44. Counting to 100






45. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






46. Connectionism






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






48. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






49. 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.






50. Context embedded