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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Determines student's ability to learn in a certain situation






2. 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






3. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






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






5. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






6. 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






7. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






8. Writing






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






10. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






11. Learning through experience






12. 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.






13. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






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






15. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






16. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






17. Ability to understand sound structure of language






18. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






19. Direct instruction






20. (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






21. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






22. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






23. Connectionism






24. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






25. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






26. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






27. Amount of force a muscle can produce






28. Role playing






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






30. Physical education






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






32. Refers to the observed results of the learners efforts






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






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






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






36. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






37. 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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38. Modeling






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






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

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41. 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






42. Advance organizer






43. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






44. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






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






46. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






48. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






49. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






50. Math word problems







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