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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Facilitated nad guided by teacher - process of learning given to students - small group projets - experimental investigations






2. Congitively undemanding






3. Includes systems of factual knowledge - values - and cultural conventions. 2.) Language Schemata - includes sentence structure - grammatical inflections - spelling - punctuation - vocabulary - and cohesive structures. 3.)Textual Schemata - includes t

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






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






6. Determine student learning from thinking processes - formation of ideas - and development of skills in creative and factual writing






7. Collection of completed student work selected by the student and the teacher






8. Language acquisition - oral vocabulary and usage - reading comprehension skills






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






10. Simple contextual tasks - connect meaning of fraction computation with whole - number computation - estimation and informal methods to develop strategies - explore each operation using manipulatives






11. Understands conventional alternative for sounds and structure of words






12. Teaching them know how to learn on their own based on their prior knowledge






13. Help define what art education should provide and to ensure that schools support the arts






14. Operant conditioning






15. Particularly the vowels - to spell many of the sounds. Sounds are called phonemes - and represented in print - and Graphemes are letter combinations.






16. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






17. Language Acquisition hypothesis






18. Challenged in math instruction - qualified teachers - primary standards - utilize and apply number - algebra - geometry - measurement and statistics concepts - activities related to math content - meaningful to students and integrated with other subj






19. Involves the ability to: research & explore - question & analyze - and make changes to both lessons and curriculum based on learning results experienced in the classroom.






20. Predict outcomes - create questions - monitor understanding - clarify - connect






21. Solve realistic problems and completing projects using close to real - life situations






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






23. 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






24. Level of readiness must be reached to learn






25. 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






26. Walking - running - hopping - leaping - sliding - galloping - skipping






27. Pattern - regularity - reasons for spatial organization






28. 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






29. Children learn through their observations of others






30. Is the subconscious or subliminal - process by which individuals learn important things like language - prejudices - habits - social rules and behaviors. Accretion is a process where individuals are totally unaware that learning is taking place. Accr






31. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






32. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application






33. Learning through experience






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






35. Initiates investigation - investigates questions - discusses processes - presents ideas - challenges ideas - uses resources - uses prediction






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






37. Context reduced






38. Based on experiences they have and materials presented






39. 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






40. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






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

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42. Observing - measuring - identifying content - interpreting data - classifying - predicting - researching - communicating - inferring - hypothesizing - experimenting






43. The cognitive process where information from the environment is integrated into existing schematato use and apply recently learned knowledge into one's thought pattern in solving problems.






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






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






46. Need to know o be functionsl






47. Construct understanding from the words






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






49. State question - formulate hypothesis - describe variables - indicate controls - collect data - organize data - use mathematical applications - conclusion - enrichment activities






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







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