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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






2. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






3. Writing






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






5. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






6. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






7. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






8. Drills and exercises






9. 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






10. Begin working with decimals






11. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






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






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






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






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






16. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






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






18. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






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






20. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






21. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






22. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






23. Congitively undemanding






24. Mapping






25. Role playing






26. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






27. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






28. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






29. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






30. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






31. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






32. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






33. Advance organizer






34. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






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






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






37. Context reduced






38. 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.






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






40. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






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






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






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






44. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






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






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






47. Face to face conversation






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






49. Lower level questioning






50. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante