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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Consuming resources and altering natural patterns have consequences - building structures changes the region - reasons people compete for control - relationships of nature and people - carrying capacity - intended and unintended repercussions of huma






2. Visualization - analysis - informal deduction - deduction - rigor






3. Ongoing evaluation during an instructional sequence to allow midstream adaptation and improvement of the project.






4. 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






5. Credited to Carl Rogers who suggested that all human beings have a natural propensity to learn. The role of the teacher is to facilitate learning via: setting a positive classroom climate for learning; clarifying the purposes and rules; organizing an






6. Used prior to occurence of inappropriate behavior - use positive interaction - elimiate differential treatment - and prompting






7. 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.






8. The history or study of words.






9. Informal observation of student interacting with the evironment






10. Field trips to government facilities - scenarios for useful problem solving - discuss and debate current events






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






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






13. Create classroom societies - study the market - prepare personal budgets - workforce education






14. Identify and define a problem - identify and define values - predict consequences and outcomes - reach decision - justify decision - if needed alter decision






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






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






17. Positive initial experiences - moved from concrete to symbolic very slowly






18. Classical conditioning






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






20. Music and songs - poetry and rhymes - games and puzzles






21. 30-60 minutes of physical activities on all days - 60 minutes of free play per day - daily activities with 10-15 minutes of moderate action






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






23. Convert letters into sound sequences and blend sounds to form words






24. 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






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






26. Recogize separate sounds in words






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






28. Teaching students to use their own thinking processes to solve problems.






29. Spatial - one and two more - one and two less - anchors - part - part - whole






30. Language Acquisition hypothesis






31. A method of teaching reading by using the reader's own dictated language. This approach allows the reader to read words common to their environment.






32. Precommunicative - semiphonetic - phonetic - transitional - correct






33. Modeling






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






35. Refers to the learner's ability to draw on his or her interlanguage system during communication






36. Precontrol - control - utilization - proficiency






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






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






39. Meaningful context - acceptance of all learners - flexible structure - supportive classroom - integration - focused expectations - context skill development - collaboration and scaffolding - authentic assessments






40. Addiciton and subtraction without manipulatives or using fingers






41. 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.






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






43. Context reduced






44. Movements or skills become natural and completed without thought






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






46. Drills and exercises






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






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






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






50. Direct instruction - model - guided practice - application