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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






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






3. 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






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






5. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






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






7. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






8. (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






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






10. Math word problems






11. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






12. Discovery learning and constructivism






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






14. Operant Conditioning






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






16. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






17. Eight stages of human development






18. Word recognition - comprehension - and fluency






19. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






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






21. Integrates the variable for selected investigation






22. Understand basic economic concepts and issues - recite economic facts about the US - explain historical events from economic perspective - trace historical economic patterns - compare economic systems - make decisions and realize decisions affect sel






23. 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






24. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






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






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






27. Coordinate the words and meaning so reading becomes automatic






28. Doubles - five facts - zeros and ones - nifty nines






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






30. Advance organizer






31. Use of place value and hundreds and thousands






32. 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






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






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






35. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






36. Construct understanding from the words






37. Cognitive - behavioral - developmental - psychodynamic - sociological - ecological - eclectic






38. 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.






39. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. The history or study of words.






47. Multiplication and beginning division






48. 1. understand the problem - 2. determine essential information - 3. make a plan - 4. follow the plan - 5. check the answer






49. Context reduced






50. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives