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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Theory of moral development






2. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






3. Operant conditioning






4. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






5. Gain information from text - improve communication - increase pleasure






6. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






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






8. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






9. 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.






10. Work with units and tens - learning place value strategies






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

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12. 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






13. Social or observational learning theory






14. 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






15. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






16. Credited with coining the Multiple Intelligences Theory which is a pluralized way of understanding the intellect. Researchers believe that each person's level of intelligence is made up of autonomous faculties that can work individually or in concert






17. Aerobic and basic skills - recreation activities and formal sports - cardiovascular activities






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






19. 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






20. Amount of force a muscle can produce






21. Mapping






22. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






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






24. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






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






26. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






27. Uses symbols from the alphabet but no knowledge of letter - sound correspondence






28. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






29. That subset of the input that is comprehended and attended to in some way.






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






31. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






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






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






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






35. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






36. Language Acquisition hypothesis






37. 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






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






39. Direct instruction






40. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






41. 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.






42. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






43. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






44. Physical education






45. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






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






47. Movement more controlled and skill repeatd in similar manner everytime it's demonstrated






48. Learning is formal knowledge(rules) - acquistion - at the subconsious level (child's acquiring his first language).

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49. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






50. Used after inappropriate behavior occurs - ignore the behavior - use non - verbal interactions and person - to - person dialogue