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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






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






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






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






5. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






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






7. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






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






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






11. Drills and exercises






12. Three levels of culture






13. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






14. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






15. Direct instruction






16. Stages of cognitive development






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






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






19. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






20. Children learn through their observations of others






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






22. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






23. 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.






24. 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






25. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






26. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations






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






28. 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.






29. Identify words that don't belong in a set






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






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






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






33. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






34. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






35. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






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






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






38. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






42. Operant Conditioning






43. Experiential Learning






44. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






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






46. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






47. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






48. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






49. Connectionism






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