Your instructor has asked you to choose a topic that interests you and write a six-page essay on it using the format of your choice. How would you prepare to do this? List what factors would be important to consider.
What will be an ideal response?
Responses could include deciding on a purpose, using freewriting and/or brainstorming to generate ideas for a topic, deciding whom your audience is, and researching the topic.
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Many classrooms have language centers
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which one of the following is the first step in testing a hypothesis?
a. Deducing consequences that can be observed. b. Asking the views of authorities to see if it satisfies the criteria. c. Selecting or developing research instruments for data collection d. Reviewing the literature in the field to see if the hypothesis is consistent with the body of knowledge
Conducting experiments and examining outcomes in teaching is important. All of these help address student misconceptions EXCEPT:
a) Provide a connection to counting strategies. b) Helps students learn more than students who do not engage in doing experiments. c) Model real-world problems. d) It is significantly more intuitive and fun
If you were a reading specialist in a middle school, which of these should you be sure to know?
A. While there seems to be varied views about the best ways in which meaning vocabulary can be developed, one area where there is strong consensus regards the effectiveness of incidentally learning new word meanings. B. Having students participate in product-oriented semantic mapping fails to engage them with the in-depth processing of word meanings that occurs with process-oriented semantic mapping. C. Asking students to look up words in a dictionary to determine their meanings can be helpful at times, but in other cases would be viewed as a weak form of instruction. Teachers should use the dictionary as a part of a meaning vocabulary instructional program, judiciously. D. While highly useful when teaching students word identification strategies, teacher modeling is less supportive in meaning vocabulary instruction, especially with older students.