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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






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






3. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment






4. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






5. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






6. Discovery learning and constructivism






7. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






8. 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






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






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






11. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






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






13. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.

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14. 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






15. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






16. Role playing






17. 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






18. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






19. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






20. Operant conditioning






21. 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






22. 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






23. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






24. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






25. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






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






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






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






29. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






30. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. Math word problems






36. 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






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






38. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






39. Quadrant of comprehensible input






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






41. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






42. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






43. Children learn through their observations of others






44. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly






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

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






47. Congnitively demanding






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






49. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






50. Modeling