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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tends to be more relevant to students and it appears to be the conscious choice of how students want to learn. This approach involves self - instruction - experimenting - inquiry - exploring - and general curiosity. Acquisition accounts for about 20%






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






3. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






4. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






5. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






6. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






7. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






8. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






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






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






11. Funds of knowledge






12. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






13. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






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






16. Operant Conditioning






17. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






18. Study of social - political - and cultural values and their impact on scientific research and techological innovation as well as society - politics and culture as a whole






19. Operant conditioning






20. Music






21. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






22. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency


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






24. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






25. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






26. A strategy where the teacher reads a line or passage with good expression - and calls on students to read it back. This is a good technique to use with Emergent Readers to help them build reading fluency.






27. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






28. 'with - it - ness'






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






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






31. Classical conditioning






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






33. Words that are spelled alike but have different sounds and meanings (bow and arrow vs. bow of a ship) .






34. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






35. 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






36. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






37. Stages of cognitive development






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






39. 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






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






41. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






42. Creating arts - arts as inquiry - arts in context






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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals