Preparing a good teacher in a “defined body of knowledge” often results in _______________ being a part of the teacher preparation program
a. professional education
b. “major” and “minors” in the subject area
c. general education courses
d. all of the above
ANSWER: d
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a. Metalinguistic awareness b. Pragmatics c. Lexicons d. Syntax
An anger management strategy that is designed to help children in pre-K to 8th grade increase their social competency skills, thereby reducing impulsive and aggressive behavior.
a. Cognitive behavioral intervention b. In Control c. SCARE d. Second Step
A teacher says: "Everyone, you have math homework tonight. Tomorrow, I will draw a name from a hat. If that person has completed his/her homework and remembered to bring it back to school, everyone will get extra recess." What type of group contingency is this?
a. Independent group contingency b. Dependent group contingency c. Interdependent group contingency
A sixth grade student encounters the following sentence in a short story: She experienced a sense of deja vu as she walked down the street of the strange new city. The student asks the teacher about the meaning of deja vu in the sentence. The teacher could best respond by advising the student to take which of the following steps?
A. make note of the word in a vocabulary log, and then study the word after finishing the story B. use context clues in the sentence to guess the meaning of the word, and then try out that meaning in the sentence C. look up the word in the dictionary, and then paraphrase the sentence using the dictionary definition D. break the word into its component parts, and then compare the parts to the meanings of similar known words