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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.






2. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






3. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life






4. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






5. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






6. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






7. Steer children into the practice of becoming physically active throughout their lifetimes - improve academic achievement and ability to gain knowledge






8. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships






9. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






10. 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






11. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure






12. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






13. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






14. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






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






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






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






18. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






19. Gradually - experiment with numbers - visualize numbers - use numbers - understand number relationships






20. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






21. Children learn through their observations of others






22. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






23. Determines a student's understanding and performance of specific criteria






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






25. Context reduced






26. Anecdotal records and checklists to record students being observed doing tasks






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






28. Read aloud to class - student oral reading periods - shared reading - sustained silent reading






29. Models or visual examples of the information






30. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






31. Choice/control theory






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. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






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






36. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






37. Formal measure of tests to evaluate student ability to acquire skills






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






39. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






40. Ideas - organization - voice - word choice - sentence fluency - conventions






41. 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






42. Amount of force a muscle can produce






43. Multiplication and beginning division






44. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






45. 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.






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

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47. Modeling






48. Formal evaluation that measures student progress towards meeting goals






49. In the classroom the teacher and students take on roles similar to that of the parent and child respectively. Students must respond physically to the words of the teacher. The activity may be a simple game such as Simon Says or may involve more compl






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