Elaborate on some possible limitations or challenges of traditional professional development opportunities.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Answers to this question will vary but should include elements of the following: Teachers are not given choices for their development; they often find the workshops meaningless regarding application to their daily lives; they sit and listen to the presenters, possibly see a demonstration of the intervention, and then probably have a brief opportunity to practice the new intervention; there is no follow up or extensive opportunities to practice new skills.
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a. ?selecting objectives. b. ?selecting materials. c. ?assessment. d. ?evaluation.
Which of the following statements is true of the development of the high school curriculum from the end of the Civil War to the late 1800s?
A) The curriculum dropped old subjects such as botany and physiology. B) The curriculum required all students to take up banking and stenography, even those who were preparing for college.? C) The curriculum had no preset pattern for how the new courses being offered should develop.? D) The curriculum required all students to learn existentialist principles in school.
Social studies for students with disabilities who are in the regular classroom include all the following EXCEPT:
A. instruction related to students' everyday experiences. B. appropriate linguistic and conceptual social studies content. C. minimal use of group activities. D. pre-examination of texts for the impact it may have on students.
Students with low scores on a commercial reading achievement test were used in a study designed to determine the effectiveness of a new method of teaching fifth-grade reading. There were no other control or comparison groups. It was found that the students' test scores improved over the following six-month period. The conclusion that the new method was effective with the low-scoring group is unjustified due to other possible factors or influences. Which of the following is another reason that makes this conclusion unjustified?
A. The classes using the new method were all from one school, which would allow the operation of extraneous variables. B. There was no indication of the Hawthorne effect. C. There was too small a number of experimental variables being studied to permit an adequate analysis of relationships. D. There was no control for maturation as a threat.