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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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






2. Amount of force a muscle can produce






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






4. Face to face conversation






5. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






6. Recogize separate sounds in words






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






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






9. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






10. Integrates other subjects - promotes symbol systems - improves language - uses higher order thinking skills - allows creative self - expression - develops independence - self - concept and self confidence - encourages use of personal strengths - enha






11. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






12. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






13. The part of a syllable (not a word) consisting of its vowel and any consonant sounds that come after it - the first vowel in a word along with all of the sounds that follow - for example - /- utterfly/ in 'butterfly.'






14. Three levels of culture






15. Advance organizer






16. The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words






17. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






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






19. A word that is easily recognized as a whole and does not require word analysis for identification or pronunciation - (i.e. - Dolch 220 Sight Vocabulary List).






20. Process of understanding letters in text represent phonemes in speech






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






22. Reading






23. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. Drills and exercises






28. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






29. Operant Conditioning






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






31. 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.






32. Teaching reading and spelling that stresses basic symbol - sound relationships and their application in decoding words in beginning instruction.






33. Models or visual examples of the information






34. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






35. Computers available and used throughout the world - students comfortable with electronic equipment - information readily available - electronics provides opportunities for investigation - learning needs can be addressed by use of technology - technol






36. (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






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






38. Daily assessment of a student's performance on the skills taught each day and used to modify instruction






39. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






40. Operant conditioning






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






42. Role playing






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






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






45. Subtraction as think - addition - subtraction facts with sums to 10 - sums greater than 10






46. Understanding that sounds are related to written words






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






48. Phonemic awareness instruction - phonics - spelling - reading fluency - grammar - writing - reading comprehension strategies






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






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