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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






2. 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






3. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






4. Modeling






5. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






6. Experiential Learning






7. Models or visual examples of the information






8. Social or observational learning theory






9. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






10. 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.






11. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






12. 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






13. Funds of knowledge






14. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

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15. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






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






17. 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






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






19. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






20. 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






21. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






22. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






24. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert






25. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






26. Connectionism






27. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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






29. Congitively undemanding






30. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






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






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






33. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






34. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






35. Language Acquisition hypothesis






36. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






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






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






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






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






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






42. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






43. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






44. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






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






46. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






47. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






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






49. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






50. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions