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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






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






3. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






4. 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






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






6. How long can a muscle produce force






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






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






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






10. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






11. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






12. Proficiency of the academic Language






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






14. Direct instruction






15. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






16. 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






17. Zone of proximal development






18. Congnitively demanding






19. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






20. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






21. Make new words by adding a phoneme to a word






22. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






23. Assertive discipline






24. Concrete - visual representation of something that cannot otherwise be seen






25. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






26. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






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






28. Visit museums - library research - study artifcts - native cultures - examples of cultural conflicts - storytelling






29. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






30. Stages of cognitive development






31. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






32. The division of words into syllables [the minimal units of sequential speech sounds comprised of a vowel sound or a vowel - consonant combination - as /a/ - /ba/ - /ab/ - /bab/ - etc.]






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

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34. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






35. Large muscle skill development - little formal organization - lifestyle activities






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






37. Individual's basic understanding of numbers and operations and how to apply this knowledge to solve dilemmas and make decisions about mathematical problems and concepts






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






39. 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.






40. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






41. Begins to understand letter - sound correspondence






42. 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






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






44. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






45. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






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






47. Music






48. 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






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






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