Describe three school- and classroom-level actions that teachers can control to promote student progress in the general education classroom
What will be an ideal response?
First, educators can work together to create effective learning communities; environments in which students respect and value differences, understand roles and responsibilities, work in a self-directed manner, and participate in setting classroom rules. Second, educators can design effective instructional units and lessons, using best practices in education to make instructional decisions
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
How is the STS approach constructivist in nature?
a. It fosters individual thinking. b. It encourages individual students to construct their own understandings. c. It gives students the opportunity to explore the topics being studied in their own directions. d. It enables students to apply their own background information and experiences in studying the topic. e. All of the above f. None of the above
With________, learning is supported by scaffolding, or the provision of supports
that allow learning to take place. A. Dynamic assessment B. Scaffolding C. Judgement-based assessment D. Dynamic assessment
Scaffolding will help guide the learning process in all of the following ways except:
A) by offering challenges that are just beyond the child's current level of understanding and ability. B) by supporting the child to move into new levels of understanding. C) by structuring experiences that are familiar and of interest to the child. D) by focusing on self-discovery learning with little structure.