Discuss the Lau v. Nichols case.
What will be an ideal response?
This case focused on Asian immigrant families who worried that their children would not be able to achieve at high academic levels when their instructional language was English, not their native language. This case won the right for children to have their first language used in instruction.
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When the family decides that a child telling the family that he or she is gay becomes a family crisis this is called:
A. phase of disorganization B. scaffolding C. enmeshment D. integrative sanctioning
Discuss the difference between longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys.
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following statements is false when describing classroom safety?
A. Teachers need to be familiar with the schools’ fire regulations, evacuation plans and the location of fire-fighting equipment. B. Emergency contact numbers should be posted in your classrooms. C. Safety contracts signed by the students and parents are necessary in middle school but aren’t needed in primary grades because elementary investigations do not use hazardous materials. D. Teachers need to make sure that the rooms size and arrangement support safety so that crowding is not an issue.
What is important about a learning cycle?
A) It influences how a teacher teaches and what children learn. B) It contributes to superior pupil achievement when compared to the effects of the "inform-verifypractice" method of traditional texts. C) It is consistent with how children learn in that "exploration" stimulates learner disequilibrium and fosters assimilation, whereas "explanation" provides for learner accommodation and "expansion of the idea" helps learners to form more extensive mental schema. D) All of the above E) Answers A and C only