What is meant when a teacher describes students as “on fire”? Think of an instance where you experienced being “on fire.” What characteristics of the teacher or the environment contributed to your experience?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: When students are “on fire,” they are “in the moment”–carried away with enthusiasm by a topic, project, or experience. Students are fully communicating and responding, and they “forget” they are in school. Responses to the last portion will vary.
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An individual's score on an achievement test is .82 . The standard error of measurement for the test is reported to be 3 points. What are the chances that the individual's true score is between 76 and 88?
a. About 1 chance in 3 b. About 1 chance in 6 c. About 2 chances in 3 d. About 9 chances in 10 e. About 95 chances in 100
In Piaget’s theory, if baby Gabriella is taught what a dog is, then sees a cat and calls it a dog, she is using ______.
a. disequilibrium b. centration c. assimilation d. accommodation
Which of the following research findings is true of embedding explicit strategies in reading and literacy instruction?
a. Elementary students have learned self-regulated writing strategies, such as semantic webbing b. Explicit strategies cannot be successfully taught in reading c. Phonetic analysis cannot be taught through embedding explicit strategies d. All of the above
A non-English speaking child's home language:
A. needs to be preserved. B. should take second place to English. C. separates them from other children. D. is too hard to learn.