Leyla's biology teacher is doing a great job of not only teaching biology to his students but also teaching them how to learn biology, that is, how to study, test themselves, take better notes, review notes more often, and read a few sections of the biology text each night. Leyla is thrilled with her grades in biology but is not doing well in most of her other classes. It appears as if Leyla is
not using what she is "learning about learning" in her other classes, such as social studies, language arts, and Spanish. Leyla is experiencing:
a. situated cognition.
b. negative transfer.
c. distributed cognition.
d. contextual learning.
a
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Title III, the English Language Acquisition Act,
a. Is directed at all children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children. b. Holds state and local education agencies accountable for the achievement of students. c. Represents a change in focus from bilingual education to language acquisition. d. All of the above.
Define inclusion as it is presented in this text. Defend the implementation of inclusive practices to skeptics of this concept.
What will be an ideal response?
In the early history of the United States many of the individual states were slow in accepting major responsibility for financing public schools. Consequently:
a. the federal government had to play a major role in funding schools b. local funding became necessary and proved to be the most fair and equitable means of funding schools c. full local district funding was the first of all school finance systems d. flat grants were implemented by states because of their ability to equalize funding for local districts
Called the language of ___________, poetry's elusive quality defies exact definition—in general, the emphasis is not on how the reader feels about poetry, but on how poetry makes the reader feel
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word