Explain the role of software companies in the field of education
What will be an ideal response?
It should be noted that software companies have specialized in services for schools, teachers, students, and parents. Often, a school, district or county hires a software company to meet the needs of their locale providing electronic services to teachers, parents, and students and enhancing communication. As recently as five to ten years ago, parents had to wait for written progress reports to learn how their children were doing in school. Now, those data may be readily available on their smartphones. Paper grade books are a thing of the past for most teachers in most schools and districts across the country. Opinion is mixed on whether the web-based record keeping is more or less work for the classroom teacher.
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a. Action plan b. Who does what, when chart c. Critical friend d. Action research journal
Which one of the following statements best reflects Sternberg's theory of successful intelligence?
a. Intelligent behavior is a function of how well people draw on their prior experiences and cognitively process information in order to adapt to their particular environmental situation. b. Intelligence is due to heredity, environment, and a complex interaction between the two; ultimately, researchers will probably never be able to separate the relative effects of heredity and environment. c. Intelligent behavior evolves in three stages: preoperational thought, concrete thought, and abstract thought. d. To be truly intelligent, one must show competence in critical thinking and appropriate classroom behavior as well as in traditional academic tasks.
Supporting fathers of children with disabilities is challenging because:
a. fathers do not want assistance b. mothers generally need more support than do fathers c. some fathers feel that they must be strong at all costs d. all of the above
All of the following statements about fundamentalist Christian schools are accurate except a. Most of the schools have a great deal of local autonomy in their governance
b. Some of the schools use packaged, programmed curricula. c. Despite ongoing efforts to recruit minority students, white students still make up about 85 percent of their total enrollment. d. Many educators in fundamentalist schools say they are offering an alternative to secular humanism, which they regard as a religion that permeates public schools as well as society.