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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach






6. Group membership - involve community studies - social problems - investigate communication






7. A strategy taught to help students use parts of words they have learned to attack words that are unfamiliar






8. L1 is never used. Everything is done in target language.






9. Different types of manipulatives - various strategies - situations that reflect real life situations






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






11. Math word problems






12. Stages of cognitive development






13. Aid student in traveling or moving some distance - fundamental skill for accessing home - school and community






14. How government works - ways to change society for the better - value - based decision making - analyze social settings and conditions - define key political issues






15. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






16. Learning of governmetn function and following the rulse as set forth. legalistic and assimilationist






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






18. 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






19. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






20. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






21. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






22. Face to face conversation






23. classroom teacher supports student development with the writing process. Students are required to write sentences or passages while the teacher guides the process and instruction through conferences and minilessons.






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






25. Spatial awareness - effort - and peer relationships developed through movement concepts and skill themes






26. 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).






27. Recogize separate sounds in words






28. 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






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






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






31. Emotional variables such as anxiety - motivation and self confidence play a part in language aquisition






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






33. Proficiency of the academic Language






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






35. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






36. Provide a sequence of spoken phonemes and form a new word






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






38. Data analysis - manipulatives - graphing data - interpretation of data






39. Identify words in print - which is vocabulary development






40. 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.'






41. What a government is and does - values of American democracy - role of Constitution - relationship of US to other nations - responsibilities of US citizen






42. 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






43. Map skills and spatial organization of the world - places and regions of the world - physical and human systems - environment and society - uses of geography






44. Children learn through their observations of others






45. Begin working with decimals






46. Multiplication and beginning division






47. Lower level questioning






48. Based on the idea that learning is habit formation (drills) and the best way to learn in memorization taught through repetative drills. Little or no grammatical explanations are provided. Teacher can speak in native language - but students are discou






49. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






50. Ability of a student to control his physical self - personal movements - recognize spatial conditions - and develop body - space relationships