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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. (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






2. 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






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






4. Influences from home - school - and community affect how well the student will learn






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






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






7. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






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






9. 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%






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






11. 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.






12. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






13. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






14. Region/area - length - set






15. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






16. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






17. 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






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






19. 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






20. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






21. Reading






22. Follow the child






23. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






24. Connectionism






25. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






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






27. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing






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

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29. Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text in unison to enhance oral reading fluency.






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)

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

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32. Context reduced






33. Taught gradually in the context of meaningful reading






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






35. 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






36. Complete a problem or project with an explanation for an answer






37. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






38. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






39. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






40. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






41. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






42. Communicate at basic level in four disciplines - communicate proficiently in at least one art form - develop and present basic analysis of works of art






43. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






44. The smallest unit of language that has meaning and may be a part of a word






45. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






46. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






47. Unusual phenomenon demostrated or described to students






48. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






49. Phonemic awareness - word recognition - phonics - comprehension - fluency






50. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words