For the past two years a middle school principal has sponsored a 30-minute voluntary prayer service in preparation for statewide standardized test. The prayer service is held at the culmination of Saturday classes sponsored by the school district to provide extra preparation for the state test. The principal sends a flyer home with students promoting the event. The flyer states ‘come together,
as one, in prayer and ask God to bless our school to pass the state exam.' The principal receives a letter from the ACLU asking her to cease this practice. Which of the following is the principal's best approach
A. Continue with the voluntary prayer service but make the service sectarian and more inclusive
B. Narrow-minded fools removed prayer from school and the respect for teachers and administrators has been increasingly out of control.
C. Discontinue the prayer service
D. Wait until the ACLU gets around to suing the district and then discontinue the
C
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Which of the following statements best describes beginning teachers' beliefs about how they will learn to be effective teachers?
a. Beginning teachers believe that they will learn most of what they need to know about becoming an effective teacher in their university classes. b. Beginning teachers believe that they will learn most of what they need to know about becoming an effective teacher in their university classes combined with pre-internships. c. Beginning teachers believe that they will learn most of what they need to know about becoming an effective teacher when they get into full-time experiences in classrooms. d. Beginning teachers believe that they will learn most of what they need to know about becoming an effective teacher in their university classes combined with their internships (student teaching experiences).
Negative outcomes can result from paraeducators remaining in close proximity to an assigned student with a disability. Which of the following is not an associated negative outcome?
A. Reducing opportunity for typical social interactions
B. Encouraging dependence
C. Communicating that the general educator is not the primary teacher
D. Dispensing behavior consequences when appropriate
Ms. Peterson believes that teachers should promote individual learning and should teach the whole child. She also believes that knowledge leads to self-discovery and that instruction should include alternatives and choices, and should require decision making. Ms. Peterson is most likely a(n)
a. perennialist. b. progressivist. c. existentialist. d. social reconstructionist.
Characteristics of signalization are that it
a. explains primitive mental functions and involves concrete images. b. explains primitive mental functions and requires basic deductions. c. involves concrete images and occurs only in animal behavior. d. involves concrete images and requires basic deductions.