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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Initiated from the general to the specific - and often referred to as the 'top - down' approach. Deductive reasoning is more narrow and primarily concerned with testing hypotheses. In contrast - Inductive Reasoning is more open - ended and explorator






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






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






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






5. Print concepts - letter knowledge - alphabetic principle






6. 'with - it - ness'






7. 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






8. Equity - curriculum - teaching - learning - assessment - technology






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






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






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






12. Eight stages of human development






13. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






14. Three levels of culture






15. Classical conditioning






16. What a government is and how governments function - how rules are made and enforced - why government is necessary - democratic values and beleifs of civic life






17. An approach to reading instruction focusing on reading for meaning and the integration of the four aspects of language reading - writing - listening - and speaking.






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






19. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






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






21. 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.






22. Math word problems






23. Preproduction - early production - speech emergence - intermediate fluency


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






25. Ability of a joint to move through its range of motion






26. The reader at the beginning stages of learning to read and developing an association of print with meaning. During this stage of reading development - children engage in reading play and retelling familiar stories from memory and using pictures to ma






27. Counting to 100






28. Informal observation - authentic assessment - formal observation - testing






29. Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables






30. Ability to understand sound structure of language






31. 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






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






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






34. A minimal sound unit of speech that - when contrasted with another phoneme - affects the naming of words in a language - such as /b/ in book contrasts with /r/ in rook - /l/ in look. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that change the meanings o






35. 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






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






37. Rhyming and alliteration - sentence segmentation - syllable blending and segmentation - onset rime - blending and segmentation - phoneme blending and segmentation






38. 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






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






40. Specific techniques that promote reading comprehension such as predicting and gaining word meanings from context






41. Teacher choose topic of study and identify process - students construct own investigation - determine needed resources - find answers and organize information






42. Reading






43. 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






44. The study of the meaning in language and the analysis of the meanings of words - phrases - sentences.






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






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






47. Understand relationships of places to one another - distribution of resources throughout the world - how use of goods influence people who consume them - how decisions people make shape present and future - places change over time






48. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






49. Development of spoken language system






50. Students learn by building on prior knowledge and by doing