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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
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1. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






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






3. 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






4. Recognize and name letters of the alphabet - print knowledge - phonemic awareness






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






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






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






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






9. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






10. Read aloud - children talk about story - independent reading center - environmental print - alphabet and word games






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






12. The terms used to describe words whose pronunciations suggest their meaning (e.g. - meow - buzz - zoom).






13. 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






14. Congitively undemanding






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






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






17. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






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






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






20. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






21. Sound games - syllable clapping - rhyming songs - poems - jokes and silly rhythms - pictures in books






22. 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






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






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






26. Discrepant event - question - inquiry






27. 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






28. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






29. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






31. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






32. Advance organizer






33. 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






34. Identify words that don't belong in a set






35. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






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






37. Zone of proximal development






38. Context reduced






39. 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.






40. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






41. 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






42. Ability to understand sound structure of language






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






44. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






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






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






47. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






48. Lower level questioning






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






50. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency