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Praxis 2 Elementary Education Vocab

Subjects : praxis, teaching
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1. Movements and skills carried out with intensified instinctive actions






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






3. Genre - content - structure - language of text - prior knowledge






4. Direct instruction - inquiry based instruction - cooperative learning






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






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






7. Symbols - scale - directions - and grid






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






9. I.Input ----- II.Intake ------ III.Acquisitions ------ IV.Access ------ V.Output






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






11. 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






12. Standardized reading test - portfolios - profile - performance task - anecdotal records






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






14. Physical education






15. 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






16. Literal and figurative meanings of words - metaphors - similies - patterns of language






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






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






19. Alphabet knowledge - letter - sound correspondences - left - to - right directionality - word families - spelling patterns - phonics - word structures - irregular spellings - manipulating or building words






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






21. Identify words that don't belong in a set






22. Is a metaphoric term used by Vygotsky to show how parents and teachers provide temporary assistance to children/students by modeling appropriate behavior or skills. In the classroom - teachers model or demonstrate specific strategies and gradually sh






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






24. Language Acquisition hypothesis






25. Three levels of culture






26. Provide lecture - deliver demonstrations - impart explanations of science topics






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






28. 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






29. Simple maps to begin - instruct on simple symbols used - students construct a map






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






31. Mapping






32. (1849-1936) discovered 'conditioning' and initially believed that all behavior was reflexive. Pavlov thought that all learning - whether the elicited responses in animals - or of highly conceptual behaviors in humans was due to the mechanisms of clas






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






34. Grammatical structures need not be the center of cirriculum organization. Certain rules are acquired before others.

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35. A technique to examine students' collective abilities via real - world challenges that requires them to apply their relevant skills and knowledge.






36. There is a connection between language function and neural anatomy - focusing on the right and left hemisphere. There is a focus of specific aspects of SLA: age differences;fossilization;pattern practice in classroom SLA.






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






38. A succession of letters representing the same phonological unit in different words - such as ed in red - bed - fed. or - IGHT in FLIGHT - MIGHT and TIGHT.






39. Direct instruction






40. Developmentally appropriate practice - integration - scaffolding - cooperative learning - questioning - task analysis - content enhancements - graphic organizers - wait time - peer tutoring - student responses - instructional pacing - feedback






41. One - more - than and two - more - than facts - zero facts - doubles - near - doubles - make ten facts






42. Changing one phoneme for another to make a new word






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






44. Improving social skills through the use of appropriate behaviors






45. Theory of moral development






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






47. Advance organizer






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






49. Recognize the same sounds in a variety of words






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