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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






3. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






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






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






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






7. Language student's will emerge naturally whey they are given the opprotunity and need (motivation) to speak in a non - coercive/low anxiety situations.

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8. 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






9. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






10. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






11. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






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






14. Reading






15. 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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16. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






17. Events are formed by human perceptions of places and regions - events of past provide insights into climate - resources - ecosystems - and migration of humans - why certain events happened a certain way






18. Body's ability to function efficiently and effectively






19. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






20. Physical and human characteristics of certain places and regions - human relationships that exist and hwo they function in places and regions - similarities and differences of diverse places and regions






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






22. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






23. 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






24. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






25. Art






26. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






27. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






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






29. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






30. 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






31. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






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






33. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






34. 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.






35. Language Acquisition hypothesis






36. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






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






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






39. 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






40. Motivation is the primary determinant of L2 proficiency;The more motivated you are the better you will perform






41. Microsystem - mesosystem - exosystem - macrosystem






42. Blending an arts related activity with an academic subject activity






43. 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%






44. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






45. Self - paced instruction - mentoring - ability grouping - compacting - telescoping - tiered lessons






46. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






47. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






48. Congnitively demanding






49. Eight stages of human development






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