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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






2. Large group activity everyone does same experiment - inquiry not a part of learning process






3. The joining of two or more consonant sounds - represented by letters that begins a word without losing the identity of the sounds - such as /bl/ in black - the joining of the first consonant and vowel sounds in a word - such as /b/ and /a/ in baby. T






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






9. The structural (grammar) organization of English that regulates how words are combined into sentences. Word order is important in English and during the pre - school years - children learn to understand - ask questions - construct statements - and ma






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






11. Discovering - simplifying - and applying patterns in scientific discovery






12. 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.






13. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






14. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






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






16. Describe economic problems - alternatives - benefits and costs - identify consequences in changes of economic policies - analyze economic evidence






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






18. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






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






20. Refined mastery of multiplication and division






21. Determined amount of fat cells in comparison to the amount of lean cells within a person's body mass






22. Discovery learning and constructivism






23. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






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






25. Learners find it easier to to acquire patterns that confrom to linguistic universals than those that do not.






26. Follow the child






27. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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28. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






29. 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






30. Art






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






32. Topographical - projective - Euclidian






33. Amount of force a muscle can produce






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






35. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






36. Coined by Piaget to identify a process that regulates tension between assimilation (information) and accommodation (learning). Equilibration implies that individuals learn through experiences somewhat different from previous experiences. Thus - their






37. Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and relationship between phonemes and graphemes






38. Role playing






39. Advance organizer






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






41. Formal tool measuring student proficiency of a subject area already learned






42. Modeling






43. Is an instructional approach that encourages students to work collaboratively as partners or in small groups on clearly defined tasks.






44. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






45. Choice/control theory






46. Social or observational learning theory






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






48. (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






49. Students analyze letter sound relationships from learned words to those not familiar while not pronouncing sounds in isolation






50. 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