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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Identify words that don't belong in a set






2. 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






3. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






4. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






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






6. Assertive discipline






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






8. Hierarchy of needs






9. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






10. Three levels of culture






11. Experiential Learning






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






13. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






14. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






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






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






17. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






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






19. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






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






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






22. The flow and the structures of a conversation or topics within






23. 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






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






25. Operant Conditioning






26. Classical conditioning






27. Writing






28. Movement or equipment moves the child instead of child being in control






29. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






30. Art






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






32. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






33. Language Acquisition hypothesis






34. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






35. Music






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






37. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






38. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






39. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






40. Face to face conversation






41. 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






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






43. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






44. Multiple intelligences






45. Quadrant of comprehensible input






46. 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






47. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






48. Advance organizer






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






50. Discrepant event - question - inquiry