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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Music






2. Follow the child






3. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






4. 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






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






6. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






7. standard spelling is the correct form for written documents.






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. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






10. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






11. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






12. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






13. 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.






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






15. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






16. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






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






18. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






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






20. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships






21. Mapping






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






23. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






24. Direct instruction






25. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






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






27. Congnitively demanding






28. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






29. Experiential Learning






30. Art






31. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






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






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






34. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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






36. The history or study of words.






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






38. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






39. Writing






40. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






41. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






42. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






43. 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






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






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






47. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






48. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






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






50. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness







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