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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






3. An attachment to the end or beginningof base or root words. A generic term that describes prefixes and suffixes word parts 'fixed to' either the beginnings of words (prefixes) or the ending of words (suffixes). For example - the word disrespectfulhas






4. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






5. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






6. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






8. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






9. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






10. 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






11. Physical education






12. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






13. 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.






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






15. Begin working with decimals






16. Proficiency of the academic Language






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






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






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

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






21. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






22. 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






23. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






24. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






25. 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






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






27. Theory of moral development






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






29. 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






30. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






31. Direct instruction






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






33. Context embedded






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






35. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






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






37. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






38. Classical conditioning






39. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






40. Mapping






41. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






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






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






44. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations






45. Connectionism






46. Lower level questioning






47. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






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






49. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






50. Construct understanding from the words