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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






2. Counting to 100






3. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






4. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






5. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






6. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






7. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






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






9. Role playing






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






14. 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






15. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






16. Hierarchy of needs






17. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






18. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






19. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






20. Operant Conditioning






21. Context reduced






22. '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.






23. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






24. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






25. Constructivist theory is a general framework for instruction based upon the study of cognition. Constructivism is based on the belief that children construct meaning from their experiences - and are not just passive receivers of information. Much of






26. Eight stages of human development






27. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






28. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






29. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






30. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






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






32. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






33. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






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






35. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






36. 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






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

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38. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






39. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






40. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises






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






42. 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.






43. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






44. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






45. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






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






47. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






48. Children learn through their observations of others






49. Proficiency of the academic Language






50. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting