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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Zone of proximal development






2. Music






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






4. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






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






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






7. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






8. Need to know o be functionsl






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






10. 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






11. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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12. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






13. Congnitively demanding






14. 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)

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15. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






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






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






18. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






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






20. Mapping






21. Construct understanding from the words






22. Counting to 100






23. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






24. Region/area - length - set






25. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences






26. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






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






28. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.






29. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






30. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






31. Art






32. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






33. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






34. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






35. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






42. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






43. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






44. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






45. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






46. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






47. 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






48. How long can a muscle produce force






49. Operant conditioning






50. Face to face conversation