What advice could you give a new early childhood teacher who asks you, “What do I do when the children are outside?”
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: A key response should be to provide a structured option with outdoor learning centers that expand the theme of the curriculum.
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Multicultural education
a. ?is a new curriculum published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). b. ?reflects the plurality of the classroom. c. ?focuses on one culture each year. d. ?emphasizes the food and holidays of a cultural group.
In the beginning of the chapter, the authors identified seven major forces in American educational history: local control, universal education, public education, comprehensive education, secular education, the changing ideas of the basics, and expanded definition of educational access and equality. Many of the contemporary educational problems or issues emanate from these forces. Select two
contemporary education issues or problems, and briefly explain them. Then describe how each one is associated with one of the major forces of American education. What will be an ideal response?
When compared with the Bogue’s 1959 study of homelessness, Rossi’s 1985/6 study discovered that:
a. Chicago’s mid-80s poor had more housing options than did earlier generations b. a much higher proportion of 1980s homeless were street homeless, because many SRO hotels had been torn down c. activists’ estimates of the homeless population were too low. d. none of these is true
After several years of research, Professor I. M. Notsobritemyself concludes that there is a zero correlation between height and intelligence. This means that
a. tall people tend to be bright. b. short people tend to be bright. c. no one is bright. d. short people tend to be not so bright. e. a tall person may be bright or not so bright.