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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
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1. Amount of force a muscle can produce






2. Follow the child






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

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






5. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






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






7. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






8. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






9. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






10. 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






11. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






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






13. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






14. Construct understanding from the words






15. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






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






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






18. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






19. Operant Conditioning






20. 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%






21. The process of adapting a new culture;the new langage is seen as tied to the way the learners community and the target language community view one another.






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






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






24. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






25. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






26. Social or observational learning theory






27. 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).






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






29. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






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






31. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






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






33. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






34. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






35. Choice/control theory






36. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






37. Knowing the basic concepts about written words






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






39. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






40. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






42. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






43. Math word problems






44. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






45. Connectionism






46. 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.






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

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48. Three levels of culture






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






50. Advance organizer