Discuss how teachers can do a better job of communicating their high expectations to students. What are the barriers to such communication? In your opinion, if a teacher has high expectations from his or her students, would that improve a student's performance?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary.
You might also like to view...
Which of the following children would you be most likely to think has a problem with pragmatics? Mateo, who seems to interpret and produce language literally rather than attending and responding to the speech of others Jean, who appears to have "robotic" speech and flat affect Alison, whose teacher tells her, "Get your snack and take it to the table" and Alison repeats, "Take it to the table" Gavin, who has a large vocabulary and syntactic awareness
A. Mateo B. Jean C. Alison D. Gavin
Including literature that accurately represents the range of cultures in the classroom
a. is not possible for most teachers. b. helps English language learners develop phonemic awareness. c. allows for increased linguistic transfer from their home language to English. d. d fosters honor and respect for students’ home cultures
Each of the following is an accommodation that can be made on the job for those who are blind or who have low vision EXCEPT
A) better lighting. B) prompt snow removal. C) obstacle-free hallways. D) more time off.
Group-comparison research
a. can demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships as well as experiments can. b. can demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships better than experiments can. c. can demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships less well than experiments can. d. cannot be used to study cause-and-effect relationships.