Your principal comes in to observe your teaching, and you then meet with her to debrief. She points out that Bethany was whispering with Emily at one point during class. She says, "Why didn't you intervene?" Your response is,
a. "They always do that, and if I intervened every time, I'd go crazy. So I pick my times and when I do administer a consequence, I tell them that it's for all the other times I didn't say anything.".
b. "Most students were working hard, and I try never to interrupt students while they're working.".
c. "It was a very short conversation, and unlikely to be repeated since I was about to move them into groups, so I simply chose not to interrupt the lesson.".
d. "Oh, heck. I must have missed that. If I'd seen it, I'd have said something.".
c
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What is considered least important regarding metacognitive skills and student learning?
A. Understanding learning processes B. Knowing how to approach a learning task C. Listing facts D. Having good learning strategies
When a teacher's behavior is consistent with that expected of the children, the teacher is using a facilitating behavior known as
(a) modeling (b) clarifying (c) structuring (d) data acquisition
Which of the following statements is most true:
a. It is not reasonable for instructors to embed teaching strategies in course content. b. Adolescents who lack reading strategies are too old to learn them. c. Content teachers do not have time to teach new reading strategies. d. Readers of all ages who lack reading strategies can acquire them and apply them.
Determining if students know what a "word" is, what a "letter" is, and the correct direction for reading print is referred to as assessing prereading concepts
Indicate whether the statement is true or false