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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






2. 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






3. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






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






5. Proposes that all children can learn when provided with the appropriate learning conditions in the classroom.






6. Zone of proximal development






7. Determines student progress and performance based on lessons presented in curriculum






8. Drills and exercises






9. Identify the word that remains when a phoneme is removed from an existing word






10. Task analysis - guided practice at conclusion of leve - closure activity - homework as a form of practice - writing to express mathematical thinking - cooperative learning






11. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






12. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






13. Role playing






14. Ruled that providing the same access to cirriculum - instruction - and material to students of LEP as is provided to English Dominante






15. Print knowledge - emergent writing - linguistic awareness






16. Theory of moral development






17. Children learn through their observations of others






18. 'if so - how?' In short - metacognition is simply the process of 'thinking about thinking.' In fact - good readers use metacognition before they read anythingin order to help them clarify their purpose for reading and to preview the text.






19. 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






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






21. Evaluation that comes at the conclusion of an educational program or instructional sequence.






22. The study of the nature and use of symbols in a writing system; correct or standardized spelling according to established usage in a given language.






23. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






24. Connectionism






25. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






26. The use of words peculiar to a particular language with a meaning that differs from typical syntactic patterns or from the literal meaning of its parts taken together. Some examples of idiomatic expressions would include - 'John kicked the bucket' me






27. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






28. The notion that letters making a word have corresponding sounds - thus letters and sounds can be placed together to build words.






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






30. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






31. Enjoys science - participates in additional science activities - inquires about science topics - curious about topic - displays verbal skills - wants more time to participate






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






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






34. Classical conditioning






35. An ability to sound ot new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound - symbol correspondence






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






37. Counting to 100






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






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






40. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






41. Operant conditioning






42. 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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. Direct instruction






48. Analysis of information - formation of opinions and actions taken. critical thinking and cultural pluralism






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






50. Learning through experience