Which is an example of deductive teaching?
a. The teacher shows several specimens of sedimentary rocks and helps students form conclusions about how sedimentary rocks are formed.
b. The teacher describes the principles of balance and gives students several problems in which they must determine the weights and distances from the fulcrum needed to achieve balance.
c. The students explore several different kinds of magnets and then describe a principle of magnetism.
d. The teacher gives students drawings depicting the life stages of butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects, and asks them to describe a principle of life cycles that is common to all the insects they observed.
e. All of the above
f. None of the above
b. The teacher describes the principles of balance and gives students several problems in which they must determine the weights and distances from the fulcrum needed to achieve balance.
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a) optimistic about the future. b) in a middle ground position about the future. c) pessimistic about the future. d) uncertain about what position to take about the future.
What percentage of high school students with learning disabilities drop out of school?
a. 5 percent b. 11 percent c. 24 percent d. 51 percent e. 82 percent
Which of the following is not one of the three fundamental instructional principles of the Makes Sense Strategies (MSS) model?
A. Students learn better when they are actively engaged. B. Increasing the learnability of information is preferable to dumbing it down. C. Students should not waste time learning trivia. D. Graphic organizers simplify content to be learned.
In order to obtain good reliability in scoring comprehension when taking an oral reading sample, which of the following would be appropriate?
A. Structure several questions and ask the same questions of each child tested. B. Structure individual, different questions for each child. C. Ask closed-ended questions to cut down on ambiguity. D. Ask another teacher to listen in.