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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






2. 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






3. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






4. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






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






6. Eight stages of human development






7. 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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8. 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






9. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






10. Recogize separate sounds in words






11. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






12. Three levels of culture






13. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






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






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






16. Funds of knowledge






17. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






18. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






19. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






20. 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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21. Music






22. The teacher remains mainly silent - to give students the space they need to learn to talk. In this approach - it is assumed that the students' previous experience of learning from their mother tongue will contribute to learning the new foreign langua






23. Construct understanding from the words






24. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






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






26. Congnitively demanding






27. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






28. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






30. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






31. 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.






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






33. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






34. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






35. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






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






37. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






38. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






39. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






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






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. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






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






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






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






46. Operant Conditioning






47. 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






48. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






49. 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






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