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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Mapping






2. Field trips to community entities - various technology - study economic systems - build skills in areas of communication






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






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






5. Development of spoken language system






6. Classical conditioning






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






8. Body's capacity to maintain vigorous physical activity for a period of time






9. 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.'






10. The initial creative stage of writing - prior to drafting - in which the writer formulates ideas - gathers information - organizes or plans.






11. Class newsletter - classroom management system - individual service projects - discuss public issues - participate in elections - school councils - create logo - motto or rules for class






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






13. Face to face conversation






14. Math word problems






15. Students involved and motivated in learning process - children create situation of learning meaningful to them.






16. Suggests that behavior is somewhat controlled by association and illustrated after a neutral stimulus accepts the eliciting properties of an unconditioned stimulus through the pairing of some unconditioned stimulus with the neutral stimulus.






17. Children learn through their observations of others






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






19. Systems - order and organization - evidence - models and explanation - change - constancy and measurement - evolution - equilibrium and cycles - form - function and structure






20. You give a list of vocabulary words in L2. Classes are taught in L1.






21. Comprehension of scientific concepts - appreciation of scientific knowledge - understanding nature of science - acquisition of skills to become independent thinkers






22. Language Acquisition hypothesis






23. New vocabulary - descriptive words - realistic viewpoints of people and environment






24. Follow the child






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. Teach children to segment words into phonemes and create words by writing letters for phonemes






31. 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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32. Discovery learning and constructivism






33. 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






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






35. 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






36. Amount of force a muscle can produce






37. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






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






39. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






40. Collect information about a student to use in assessment throughout the period of instruction






41. Addiction and subtraction usage on worksheets and timed tests






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






43. 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






44. Phonics instruction and whole language instruction - alphabetic principle - phonemic awareness - vocabulary - fluency - comprehension






45. Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them






46. 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






47. Two letters that represent one speech sound - as EA in BREAD - CH in CHAT - or NG in SING.






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






49. Organizing data - problem solving - comparing and contrasting - model building - planning - forecasting - decision making






50. Cognative Academic Language Learning Approach