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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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.






2. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






3. Avoid stereotypical content - specify historical periods - variety of resources - diverse information






4. Direct instruction






5. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






6. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






7. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






8. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






9. Learning through experience






10. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






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






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






13. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






14. 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






15. 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






16. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






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






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






19. Operant Conditioning






20. Stages of the ethic of care






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






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






23. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






24. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue






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






26. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






27. 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






28. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






29. 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






30. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






31. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






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






33. 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






34. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






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


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






37. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






38. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






39. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






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






41. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






42. The history or study of words.






43. Mapping






44. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






45. Congnitively demanding






46. Context embedded






47. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






48. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






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






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