Praxis 2 PLT Elementary Education Exam With
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Anchored Instruction - ANSWER A student connects what he or she is learning to a
concrete experience through a concrete application of the concept being taught.
Differentiated Instruction - ANSWER Teachers respond to the wide range of abilities
present in the classroom.
Tiered Instruction - ANSWER The teacher offers the same core content to each student
but provides varying levels of support for students.
Curriculum Compacting- ANSWER The teacher identifies the essential knowledge to be
learned and condenses the number of examples, activities, or lessons so that a student,
through demonstrating mastery of the content can move on to the next level.
Curriculum Chunking - ANSWER Breaking the content of a unit into smaller units or
chunks and providing support and frequent feedback to the student as he or she
demonstrates understanding of each chunk of information.
Flexible Grouping - ANSWER Groups that change as the students' learning needs
change.
Demonstrations - ANSWER Have to do with explicitly showing students what something
is or how to do something.
Graphic Organizers - ANSWER Visuals that show relationships between concepts,
terms, facts or ideas in a learning activity.
, Continuum - ANSWER Used to help students learn key vocabulary or concepts.
Cycle Maps - ANSWER Used when a teacher wants students to understand the cyclical
nature of a text.
Mnemonics - ANSWER An instructional strategy often suggested for students with
memory difficulties or learning disabilities. Improves students ability to remember key
information.
Interdisciplinary Instruction - ANSWER Draws upon knowledge from 2 or more content
areas.
Primary Sources - ANSWER Laws, government, scientific findings, math, or historical
events in their original form.
Reciprocal Teaching - ANSWER Teacher and student discuss the text.
Inquiry Model - ANSWER An approach to teaching in which students join their teacher in
exploring the natural and material world as a means of helping them discover meaning.
Project-Based Learning - ANSWER Classroom activity in which students gain new
knowledge and skills by working on an in-depth, complex, multifaceted project that
results in a specific end product.
Simulations Models of real world activities to be used for students to become involved in
the content being studied.
Anticipatory Set A short activity or event at the beginning of the lesson that effectively
engages all students' attention and orients their thinking to the learning objectives.
Behavioral and Cognitive Objectives Focus on observable student behaviors and
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