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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






2. Language Acquisition hypothesis






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






4. 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.






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






6. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






7. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






8. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






9. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






10. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






11. Congnitively demanding






12. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






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






14. 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.






15. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)

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






17. Development of spoken language system






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






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






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






21. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






22. 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






23. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






24. Social or observational learning theory






25. 'with - it - ness'






26. Identify words that don't belong in a set






27. 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






28. Choice/control theory






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






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






31. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






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

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33. Follow the child






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






35. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






36. Eight stages of human development






37. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






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






39. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






40. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






41. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






42. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






43. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






44. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






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






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






47. 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






48. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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49. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






50. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge