The text states that the years of middle childhood are particularly fertile ground for learning lessons taught by family, culture, and society. Why is that true?
What will be an ideal response?
Peer relationships become extremely important, sometimes taking precedence over family. Children have acquired cognitive skills that allow them to think logically and even abstractly. Their world has expanded beyond family into the school and neighborhood. Toward the end of middle childhood, children begin to consider broad moral issues that affect others.
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Nicolai shows his prekindergartners how to cut out a shape and attach a string to it. He tells them to dangle it and make it move in different ways. He asks, "What do you imagine this can be?" Which Common Core theater standard does this activity address?
a. Connecting: Comparing characters b. Creating: Transitioning between reality and imagination c. Responding: Remembering a story plot d. Responding: Expressing a preference
A characteristic of Sociocultural Theory of Learning is
a. students construct their own meaning; social institutions are laboratories of culture. b. culture has very little affect on students’ thinking, values, knowledge and identity. c. students construct their own meaning; schools are laboratories of culture. d. learning occurs through social interaction and experiences.
How does the least restrictive environment provision of IDEA affect where students with disabilities are educated?
What will be an ideal response?
Strong experimental research designs differ from quasi-experimental research designs in that in quasi-experimental research designs:
a. There are more participants involved in the study. b. Ruling out rival hypotheses is more difficult c. Participants experience many more manipulations of the independent variable d. Random assignment is always used