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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency

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






3. Assertive discipline






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






11. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






12. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






13. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






14. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






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

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16. 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.






17. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






18. A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable






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






20. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






21. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






22. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






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






24. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






25. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






26. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






27. Math word problems






28. Quadrant of comprehensible input






29. Classical conditioning






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






31. Need to know o be functionsl






32. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






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






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






35. Fitness concepts of muscular strength and flexibility - development of specific skill exercises






36. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






37. Role playing






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

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






40. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






41. 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






42. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






43. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






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






45. Language Acquisition hypothesis






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






47. Congitively undemanding






48. 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






49. Stages of the ethic of care






50. 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.