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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






2. 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.






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






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






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






6. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






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






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






9. Context reduced






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






18. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






19. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con






20. Classical conditioning






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






22. Multiplication and beginning division






23. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






24. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






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






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






27. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






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






29. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






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






36. Physical education






37. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






38. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






39. (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






40. 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






41. Social or observational learning theory






42. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






43. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






44. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






45. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






46. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






47. 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






48. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






49. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






50. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output