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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 'with - it - ness'






2. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






3. Modeling






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






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






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






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






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






9. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






10. Follow the child






11. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






12. Context reduced






13. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






14. Recogize separate sounds in words






15. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






16. Quadrant of comprehensible input






17. 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






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






19. Amount of force a muscle can produce






20. Identify ELL's - design an effective program reflective of their needs - employ appropriate ESL or bilingual personell or both - align ELL's to state and local content standards - and to provide ongoing authentic assessment






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






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






23. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






24. 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






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






26. Is a strategy where experienced readers provide structure via modeling strategies in order to move beginning readers towards independence.






27. Stages of cognitive development






28. 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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29. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






30. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






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






32. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






33. Learners must be exposed to messages a little bit beyond proficiency

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34. Stages of the ethic of care






35. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






36. Refers to the process by which te learners incorporates new learner incorporates new learning item into his or her developing system or interlanguage.






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






38. Zone of proximal development






39. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






40. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






41. 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






42. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






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






44. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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






46. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






47. Assertive discipline






48. 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.






49. Uses a letter or group of letters for every speech sound heard






50. Proficiency of the academic Language