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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Zone of proximal development






2. 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






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






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






5. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






6. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






7. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






8. Classical conditioning






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






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






11. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






12. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






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






14. '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.






15. Region/area - length - set






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






17. 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






18. Word forms and another component of syntax. Morphemes are also the smallest meaningful units in language and word parts that could also change the meaning of a word.






19. Advance organizer






20. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






21. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






22. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






23. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






24. The history or study of words.






25. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






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






27. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






28. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






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






30. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






31. 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






32. 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.






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






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






35. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






36. Begin working with decimals






37. Math word problems






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

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39. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






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






41. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life






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. Theory of moral development






44. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






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






46. Construct understanding from the words






47. 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






48. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






49. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






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