When children have conflicting needs or desires, the caregiving professional has the opportunity to teach important interpersonal skills. Three-year-olds Reni and Cali both want to play with the animal puzzle and have taken it off the shelf at the same time. As their teacher, you have the opportunity to promote several interpersonal skills. List two skills you can promote in Reni and Cali and
explain the steps you would take to teach those skills.
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should include sharing/working together, taking turns, compromising, negotiating, coping with disappointment, or communicating desires. Steps should include approaching both children and asking each to tell the other what she wants, acknowledging the conflict of desires, having the children brainstorm solutions, perhaps suggesting sharing, taking turns, and so on if they do think of them, and guiding them to find a mutually agreeable solution.
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a. In-service education is an effective way of changing teachers' attitudes toward the issue. b. The group taught by Method A had a significantly higher mean score on the posttest than did the group taught by Method B. c. Method A appears to be a more effective method of teaching math than Method B. d. a and b e. a and c
According to most research, it takes about ___ years for non-English-speaking children to compete academically with their English-speaking peers
A. 2 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
Groups A and B were found to be significantly different on a test of spelling. Group A had been taught a new method of spelling, and Group B was the control group. Although random selection was not possible, subjects were randomly assigned to the two groups. Based on the significance of the study the research concludes that the new method will help children read quicker. The researcher
a. made an interpretation not based on the data. b. needs to consider the limitation of sampling procedures. c. needs to describe the characteristics of the two groups. d. All of these are true.
According to Vygotsky, students can benefit from help if:
a. they are at the stage of concrete operational or higher. b. their inner speech is developed past preoperational. c. tasks are in their zones of proximal development. d. they are capable of transformation and reversibility.