. Explain how teachers guide children's behavior by working within the zone of proximal development
What will be an ideal response?
Problem solving is what guiding behavior is all about. Teachers take children from the behavioral and social skills they have in their ZPD and guide them to increasingly higher levels of responsible behavior and social interactions in small and large groups, as well as individually. Tools teachers use include scaffolding, adult/child discourse, and private speech and self-guided behavior.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Identify the least appropriate Answer: When asked to release a child to a noncustodial parent, a teacher should a. try to contact the custodial parent. b. try to contact his or her director
c. try to contact law enforcement. d. release the child to the parent.
McKenna Williams is a reflective teacher. She has noticed an increasing number of students not completing their independent seatwork in language and spelling. She expects students to take responsibility for working independently while she works with small reading groups. Now she wonders whether she should start allowing students to work together in pairs or trios rather than continuing to require them to work quietly on an individual basis. Her common sense tells her that she should continue to require quiet individual work. Her colleague Cal Sitton disagrees. He allows his students to work in pairs.
McKenna respects her colleague Cal and knows he has more experience teaching than she does. But she doesn't want to mirror his teaching without reason or evidence that his strategies are more effective. How might she research this question in her own classroom and produce evidence to support one approach over another?
Identify and discuss at least three factors that influence our ability to pay attention
What will be an ideal response?