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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






2. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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






4. Observe people - compare groups of people - researh human emotions - study human development






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






6. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






7. Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness - phonics instruction in context - learn when address reading and writing activities






8. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






9. Multiple intelligences






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






11. Conitive - language - physical - social - emotional - adaptive






12. 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






13. Direct instruction






14. Physical education






15. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






16. 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






17. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






18. 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)


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






20. Begin working with decimals






21. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






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






23. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






24. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






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






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






27. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






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






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






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






31. (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






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






33. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






34. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






35. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






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






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






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






39. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'






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






41. Operant conditioning






42. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






43. Connectionism






44. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






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






46. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






47. 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






48. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






49. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






50. Separate onsets and rimes in words so students may read them and blend parts into words