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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






2. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






3. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






4. Stages of the ethic of care






5. 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%






6. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






7. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






8. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






9. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






10. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words






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






12. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






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






14. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






15. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






16. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






17. Context reduced






18. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






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






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






21. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






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






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






24. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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25. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






26. Modeling






27. 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






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






29. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






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






31. Counting to 100






32. Stages of cognitive development






33. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






34. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






35. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships






36. Direct instruction






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






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






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






40. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






41. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






42. Children learn through their observations of others






43. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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






45. Three levels of culture






46. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






47. 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






48. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






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






50. 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