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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






2. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






3. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






4. 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






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






6. Counting to 100






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






8. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






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






10. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






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






12. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






13. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






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






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






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






17. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






18. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






19. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






20. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






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






22. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






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






24. Choice/control theory






25. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






26. Language Acquisition hypothesis






27. 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






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






29. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






30. 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






31. Children learn through their observations of others






32. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






33. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






34. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






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






36. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






37. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






38. 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






39. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






44. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






45. Multiplication and beginning division






46. Writing






47. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






48. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






49. Physical education






50. 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