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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






2. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






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






4. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






5. Construct understanding from the words






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






7. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






8. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






9. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






11. A theory advanced by George A. Miller who stressed the idea that short - term memory could only hold 5-9 chunks of information (seven plus or minus two). The term chunk represents any meaningful unit (i.e. - digits - words - pictures - etc.). The con






12. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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13. Context embedded






14. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






15. 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






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






17. Role playing






18. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






19. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






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






21. Multiplication and beginning division






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






23. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






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






25. 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






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






27. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






28. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






29. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






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






31. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






32. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






33. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






34. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






35. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






36. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






37. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






38. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






39. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






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






41. 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






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






43. Writing






44. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






45. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






47. 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.]






48. Discovery learning and constructivism






49. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






50. Reading