Why should you, as a special educator, include cognitive strategies in the curriculum for students with special needs? Describe and discuss at least four reasons
What will be an ideal response?
Responses may include
• the importance of teaching students how to learn so you do not have to help them prepare for every test
• the importance of encouraging students to strive for independence
• the effect that cognitive strategies can have on improving social behaviors
• the fact that cognitive strategies involve teaching to mastery, and mastery is what will be required of students on high-stakes tests
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Which one of the following statements about the Stanford-Binet is false?
a. It has a heavily verbal orientation. b. It must be administered to one person at a time. c. It measures one's innate capacity to learn. d. It gives a general measure of intelligence.
North Carolina early childhood initiative designed to ensure all children enter school healthy and ready to succeed
What will be an ideal response?
What happens when students do not get the reinforcement they think they will get for behaving in a certain way? What happens when they expect to be punished for something but are not? From the perspective of social cognitive theory, describe the effects that the nonoccurrence of expected reinforcement and expected punishment are likely to have on students' later behavior
What will be an ideal response?
Aesthetic scanning consists of
a. Analyzing a picture book by looking at line, color, and medium. b. Deciding upon an illustrator for a certain author's story. c. Previewing a book by looking at the pictures first. d. Locating and identifying the aesthetic properties of an artwork while looking at it.