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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Utilize primary sources - incorporate fiction - use of timelines






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






3. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






4. A device - such as a formula or rhyme - used as an aid in remembering.






5. Children develop motor skills at different rates - child's ates doesn't predict motor ability but obtained through use and practice - children develop motor skills through play






6. A Swiss biologist and psychologist constructed a model of child development and learning based on the idea that the developing child builds cognitive structures or mental maps - 'schemes -' or networked concepts for understanding and responding to ph






7. Behaviors and conditions to ensure proper health - instill skills to use behaviors - teach attitudes - values and knowledge of behaviors - provide opportunities to practice skills






8. 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






9. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






10. Student names - nursery rhymes - sound games - read poems - sing songs - alphabet books - discuss words and sounds - word banks - point out consonants and vowels






11. Coined by B.F. Skinner - is based upon the premise that learning is a function of change in overt behavior. The change in behavior is a result of the student's response to events (stimuli) occurring in one's environment. A response produces a consequ






12. Drills and exercises






13. Formal measure that evaluates a student on a subject area by answering specific questions






14. Construct understanding from the words






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






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






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






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. Advance organizer






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






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






22. Blending sounds in a word to say the word






23. Formal standardized evaluation comparing a student to other peers in the same age group






24. Explicit instruction for using letter - sound relationships during the reading of connected text to sight read new words






25. Region/area - length - set






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






27. A theory of animal and human learning that focuses on observable behaviors and ignores psychological activities.






28. 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.






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






30. Number sense - counting objects - comparing - classifying objects - sets - exploring sets - number patterns






31. Lower level questioning






32. Families and schools - cities - state - federal government - ancient and foreign governments






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






34. Experiential Learning






35. Music






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






37. 'quiet' time - includes rest and inactivity






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






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






40. Comprehending that sounds in language are represented by printed or written symbols






41. Amount of force a muscle can produce






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






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






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






45. Stages of cognitive development






46. S manifested via structuring - patterning - and constructing meaning - understanding - and ideas that did not exist initially. This process involves insight - reflection - creative expression - and/or group interactions. This method of learning is de






47. Was concerned with how student the classroom environment affected learning.






48. Refers to language sources that are used to initiate the language process






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






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