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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. 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.'






2. Found that although environment causes behavior - behavior also causes environment as well. Bandura labeled this concept reciprocal determinism -'both the world the individual's behavior 'cause' affect each other. Bandura is considered a 'father' of






3. Used for specific uses of the language. People who do not want to travel abroad - but just need to read it.






4. Experiential Learning






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






6. Role playing






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






8. Two - vowel combinations where both vowels are heard - but not quite making their usual sounds because of the blending - i.e. - oy in TOY.






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






10. Funds of knowledge






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






12. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






14. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






15. 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






16. Pre - place - value - more and less - doubling or near doubling






17. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






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






19. Music






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






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






22. Recogize separate sounds in words






23. The thought processes students are able to rely on relative to problem solving. Here - students use creativity - analysis - and logic regarding their ability to analyze facts - make comparisons - generate ideas - defend view points - draw inferences






24. An outdated reading strategy that attempts to teach students to read by having them follow other students in reading specific passages of text identified by the teacher. This technique is not recommended because it hampers reading fluency - its borin






25. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






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






27. Need to know o be functionsl






28. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






29. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






30. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






31. Quadrant of comprehensible input






32. Students need to be given time to correct themselves. Teachers can be optimal (users monitor when to focus on form) - overusers (refer to conscious grammer all the time) - underusers(do not refer to grammer at all)

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33. Motor development - body awareness - social adjustments and interaction






34. Multiple intelligences






35. Provides a body of student work -- essentially - a portfolio -- that can be used to evaluate student performance over time.






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






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






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






39. Art






40. 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






41. (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






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






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






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

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45. Proficiency of the academic Language






46. Numbers and operations - algebra - geometry - measurement - data analysis and probability - problem solving - reasining and proof - communicatins - connections - representations






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






48. 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






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






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