Which of the following is an effective strategy to use in a lesson closing?
a. Ask students to summarize what they learned.
b. Test students on what they learned.
c. Build background knowledge.
d. All of the above.
ANS: A
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Content enhancements serve all of the following purposes, EXCEPT:
a. helping students understand major concepts, ideas, and vocabulary. b. helping students comprehend content by watering down material. c. helping students with knowledge acquisition, organization, and retrieval. d. helping students understand major vocabulary.
Which of the following teachers has adopted constructive and caring dialogue to change his or her students' bad habits?
A) Ryan points out his student's habit of biting nails in front of other students. B) Blossom informs Patrick's parents about his habit of cheating in exams in front of other parents.? C) Dave ignores his students' bad habits as he thinks the students will realize their mistakes on their own.? D) Harry talks to his students in private about their bad habits and explains the ill effects of continuing them.
Only one of the following teachers is behaving in accordance with the textbook's guidelines as he or she explains a student's standardized test results to parents at a parent-teacher conference. Which one?
a. Ms. Sculley suggests that parents take a basic statistics course at the local community college so that they can better understand their child's standard scores. b. Mr. Muldar smiles and confesses, "I'm not sure what these scores mean myself. Let's look at the booklet I have about the test and see if we can figure them out." c. Mr. Spock gives parents a detailed description of the test items and shows how a table of specifications for the test closely matches his classroom curriculum. d. Mr. Kirk helps parents make sense of the percentile scores and stanines that their child has earned.
Modeling
This chapter discusses an expanded concept of the role model expectation of teachers. This is a topic that you might want to explore both in and out of class as you enter a new phase of your life. Describe ways in which teachers are role models. In what ways, both positive and negative, have you observed educators serving as exemplary, satisfactory, or less than satisfactory models of professionalism? Avoid including information which specifically identifies someone. How should you respond to the statement, "Some of the faculty do it (whatever "it" is), so it must be okay"? What will be an ideal response?