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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Context embedded






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






3. Construct understanding from the words






4. Music






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






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






7. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities






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






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






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






11. Hierarchy of needs






12. Reading






13. Funds of knowledge






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






15. Context reduced






16. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






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






18. '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.






19. Informal measurement based on observation of student work or performance






20. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






21. 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






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






23. Experiential Learning






24. 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






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






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






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






28. Need to know o be functionsl






29. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






30. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






31. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






32. Begin working with decimals






33. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






34. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






35. Learning the lingusitic rules will help you develope competence of the new language






36. Advance organizer






37. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






38. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






39. 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






40. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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41. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






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






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






44. Counting to 100






45. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






46. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






47. Art






48. 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






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






50. Children learn through their observations of others