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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






2. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment






3. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






4. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






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






7. 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.






8. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






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






10. Multiple intelligences






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






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






14. How long can a muscle produce force






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






16. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






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






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






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






20. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






21. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






22. 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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23. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






24. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






25. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






26. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






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






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






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






30. Stages of the ethic of care






31. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






32. Assertive discipline






33. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






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






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






36. 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






37. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






38. 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






39. Counting to 100






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






41. Context reduced






42. Math word problems






43. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






44. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






45. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






46. 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






47. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






48. 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






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






50. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games