Describe how a child plays an active role in his or her own development.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The concept of niche picking (Scarr & McCartney, 1983) suggests that people actively seek out environments that are a good fit with their genetic makeup. In this way, children actively shape their experiences by choosing environments which, in turn, enhance or inhibit the characteristics that initially attracted the child to that environment.
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This approach supports children for several years and uses their home language to teach both English and academic subjects as well as emphasizing English language development and academic learning
A. English as a second language B. Dual immersion bilingual education C. Early exit or transitional bilingual education D. Late exit or developmental bilingual education
These test items are good for measuring higher-level thinking
A. free-response items B. two-response items C. multiple-response items D. guided-response items
Most standard word processing programs (e.g., Microsoft Word) offer this feature to support writing text in languages other than English
A) audio options B) special characters C) automatic tracking D) translation options
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
Districts rarely use an eclectic approach to evaluating curriculum.