Explain four to five different strategies for connecting with and involving families in your curriculum
What will be an ideal response?
Connect families with curriculum by:
Posting weekly plans by the school entrance or parent area, sending a copy of weekly plans home, include plans in the newsletter, or post online, or send an email of weekly plans. Parents can share an expertise or artifact as part of an integrated study. Sometimes parents can be guest speakers or, you can visit their home or work place when it is connected to the topic. Parents can be invited in to conduct an activity or share a story. Documentation of what children have been doing through classroom binders or panels can be useful. Classroom binders can have copies of plans and documentation of children's participation, etc.
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Please choose three of the following unique familial circumstances and discuss why they may influence education: parental separation or divorce, homelessness, parents with disabilities, teenage parents, migrant families, foreign-born or immigrant families, and military families.
What will be an ideal response?
Identify the statement below that would represent a constructivist approach to a problem solving activity
a) Students are given resources that they can watch, touch and listen in order to build new understandings. b) Students are given the strategy and procedure to follow to connect to their prior knowledge c) Students are directed to follow a clear path to problem solve and develop new understanding. d) Students are given a specific time frame to complete the problem and a correct solution is given at the end of the time period.
Guided discovery activities are highly adult directed
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which answer is NOT a guideline for simplifying test questions?
A. Replace low-frequency words with common words B. Make sure that all pronouns have clear antecedents C. Separate long sentences into shorter ones D. Add additional expository material