What are the potential strengths of Kagan’s approach? What are its potential weaknesses? What elements, if any, will you incorporate into your classroom management model?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but strengths may include (a) the approach makes sense and is attractive; (b) teachers and students work together toward responsible choices; (c) teachers validate student positions as natural, thus helping students find responsible behavior to accompany position; (d) step-by-step structures for at the moment, follow-up, and long-term; (e) cooperative learning, teambuilding and classbuilding to support responsible choices. Potential weaknesses include (a) too much detail to remember; (b) difficulty in identifying student positions; (c) cumbersome to apply; (d) students’ level of development may impact their ability to engage fully with the model.
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A) activate prior knowledge at the beginning of a lesson B) assume students have little, or no, prior knowledge of a concept C) search for the best ways to activate prior knowledge within their classroom D) present new knowledge in small pieces
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a. Middle-class children who were not being served in kindergarten programs b. Severely disabled children c. At-risk children from poor neighborhoods d. None of the above e. All of the above
______ assist students in focusing on critical content.
a. conceptual scaffolds b. metacognitive scaffolds c. procedural scaffolds d. strategic scaffolds