Explain how the complexity of classroom teaching and learning affects research and efforts to apply that research
What will be an ideal response?
As David Berliner has argued, schools and classrooms differ from each other in a number of ways, including quality and quantity of personnel, teaching methods, budget, leadership, and community support. In addition, cognitive and effective outcomes of schooling are affected by complex interactions among such factors as student characteristics, teacher characteristics, curriculum materials, socioeconomic status of the community, and peer influences. The result of all this complexity is that teaching methods and programs that work the same way for a broad sample of teachers and students in different school districts are few and far between.
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Dual language learners
a. learn to write before they master speaking a second language. b. learn to speak a second language before they master writing it. c. should try to speak English at home. d. should wait until kindergarten before learning to write.
Jason is a student who has a history of balking and becoming defiant when asked to do something by the teacher. Knowing this, Miss Mlongo's primary management goal for Jason is likely to be
a. decreasing the frequency of Jason's off-task behavior during group activities. b. minimizing the impact of Jason's cultural background on his classroom behavior and academic performance. c. increasing the frequency with which Jason responds calmly and reasonably to reasonable and respectfully presented teacher requests. d. intervening quickly and severely each time Jason exhibits defiance in hopes that frequent intervention will reduce the undesirable behavior.
Tommy, in Mrs. Smith's first grade class, has the ability to remember a sequence of sounds. Tommy is demonstrating the ability of:
a. auditory discrimination. b. auditory blending. c. auditory acuity. d. auditory memory.
A frequently used definition of autism requires that an individual
A. must be diagnosed after age three. B. must be diagnosed before age three. C. must display the characteristics before age three. D. must display the characteristics after age three.