You are an elected member of a school board that has the unique opportunity to design a "model" middle school. Based on the Carnegie Council of Adolescent Development recommendations, what features should your "model" school possess?
What will be an ideal response?
The Carnegie Council recommendations were: smaller "communities" within bigger schools, lower student-to-counselor ratio, greater parental and community leader involvement, curricula that emphasizes literacy, scientific understanding, health, ethics, and citizenship, team-taught interdisciplinary curricular blocks, improve students' health and fitness.
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List the reasons why teachers decide to enter the teaching profession
What will be an ideal response?
In the reflection stages of action research, the practitioner
a. identifies an area of focus. b. analyzes the data. c. reviews what is already known. d. a and b e. a and c
An ethnographic research study is conducted on the nature of decision making in an elementary school that has successfully implemented school-based management. The selection of the school for this study most likely would be done through:
a. random sampling. b. probability sampling. c. stratified sampling. d. purposeful sampling.
Who is often referred to as the father of kindergarten?
a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. b. Johann Pestalozzi. c. Friedrich Froebel. d. Maria Montessori.