To help your first graders understand the concept of living things, you bring a pet hamster to class and have your first-graders pet it and feel it breathing. You also show your students two different bean plants, one that they planted a week ago, and a second that they planted two weeks ago, and pictures of other plants and animals. You guide the students with questions, such as noticing that
the bean plant they planted two weeks ago is taller than the one planted one week ago, as well as others to help them to the idea of living things. Your actions best illustrate which phase of instruction?
a. Planning for instruction
b. Implementing instruction
c. Assessing learning
d. Diagnosing students
b
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Summarize the main points included in the basic definition of learning disabilities provided in IDEA
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The second most common illness among preschool children is ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Only one of the following teaching practices is consistent with what we know about working memory. Which one?
A) Mr. Adamson tells his students that, with practice, they will be able to do complicated long division problems in their heads. B) Ms. Borelli tells her students that they should try to focus on main ideas rather than try to remember every detail. C) Ms. Constas suggests that students in her Russian class listen to Russian audiotapes while they sleep. D) Mr. Dominowski urges his students to put information for tomorrow's test in their "short-term memories."
What benefits do children experience in projects that are NOT necessarily available in other approaches? 1. Opportunities for in-depth investigation of a topic 2. An opportunity to make choices about what they are learning 3. A variety of learning experiences across domains 4. Hands-on-learning
A. 1, 2, 3 and 4 B. 1 C. 2 D. 2, 3 and 4