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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Stages of the ethic of care






2. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






3. Operant conditioning






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






5. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






6. Classical conditioning






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






8. 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






9. Direct instruction






10. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






11. Quadrant of comprehensible input






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






13. Hierarchy of needs






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






15. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






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






17. Use language above abilities - repeat key words - slow speech rate - clearly articulate - avoid using difficult words - simplify materials






18. 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.






19. Three levels of culture






20. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






21. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






22. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






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






24. Mapping






25. Modeling






26. 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






27. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






28. Congitively undemanding






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






30. 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)


31. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






32. 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






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






34. Zone of proximal development






35. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






36. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






37. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






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






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






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






41. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






42. 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






43. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






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






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






46. Advance organizer






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






48. Math word problems






49. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






50. Children learn through their observations of others