Mrs. Estapa's students are incredibly well-behaved – quiet, disciplined, and friendly. They have learned their teacher's rules and procedures and rarely exhibit misbehavior of any kind, though their work is often incomplete or sloppily done. When you observed Mrs. E's class, you noticed that students worked slowly and somewhat apathetically. At lunch one day, you hear another teacher say, "That
Mrs. Estapa is a genius. I am so impressed by her ability to manage her classroom; I want to learn to monitor the classroom as effectively as she does.". You think to yourself,
a. "Now that she has them following her rules consistently, she can begin to work on their motivation.".
b. "I want to know what system of incentives she uses; teachers really only get that sort of compliance if they are utilizing a complicated reward system.".
c. "Having students comply with your expectations is only half the monitoring battle. Mrs. Estapa seems to be overlooking the fact that student involvement in learning activities is critical to student mastery of new material.".
d. "What does it matter how well-behaved students are if they aren't learning anything? I think my classroom, where students misbehave frequently but do enjoy their work is probably a better model of effective monitoring.".
c
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