Froebel believed that future teachers should reflect repeatedly on their own childhood experiences for insights that they can apply to their teaching. What have your childhood experiences taught you about how students learn and how you should teach? Based on these lessons from your experience, with which educational theorist discussed in Chapter 4 do you have the most in common? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Students' answers may vary considerably, based on the nature of their individual experiences and beliefs. Answers should be assessed on the reflective thinking and insight that students exhibit in extracting lessons about teaching and learning from their experiences and on the extent to which they are able to link their insights to the major ideas of one of the educational pioneers discussed in the chapter.
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a. the simplest form of direct observation
b. the simplest form of in-direct observation
c. the simplest form of quantitative observation
d. the simplest form of qualitative observation
e. none of the above
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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