Which of the following teachers' best exemplifies a thorough understanding of integrated instruction?
A) Karen O'Brien stated that she spent the entire summer studying the national standards from each of the major disciplines and then she developed a unit to start the school year using "beginnings" as the theme. In that unit she had her students explore the origin of numbers, the reason their local community was settled, the development of a seed, and the importance of an introductory sentence in the development of an essay.
B) Kevin Trant developed a problem-based unit on pollution, requiring all of his students to use key concepts he identified in mathematics, social studies, science, and language arts to solve the problem.
C) James Anthony developed separate standards-based mathematics, science, language arts, and social studies lessons and then tied them all together with an Internet search. D) Both Kevin and James understand what integrated instruction means.
E) Karen and Kevin understand the meaning of integrated instruction.
E
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Which one of the following issues reflects a fundamental difference between Piaget's and Vygotsky's theories of cognitive development?
a. Whether challenging tasks promote cognitive development b. Whether social interactions are important for cognitive development c. How much children depend on adult guidance to make cognitive gains d. Whether or not children construct their own understandings of the world
Which of the following was the primary reason that helped some states to acknowledge their responsibility and set in motion measures for funding public schools?
a. the desire from state legislators to have more input in educational programs b. the extreme inequalities that local property taxation generated among local school districts were soon obvious c. the desire to have more control over curricula and academic programs in the schools d. the decreasing need for property tax revenues
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
An underlying purpose of cooperative learning is to
a. Give teachers a break from lecturing b. Give students variety in the classroom c. Make each student stronger individually d. Allow some students to depend on their smarter peers