Several teachers tell you that they are "teaching to students' right brains" by spending a lot of time on painting, map interpretation, geometry, and other highly visual and spatial activities. Critique their claim using what you have learned about how the human brain functions
What will be an ideal response?
Although the two hemispheres tend have different strengths (e.g., the left hemisphere specializes in language and analytic thinking, the right hemisphere in visual-spatial tasks and other tasks requiring synthesis), they constantly collaborate in day-to-day tasks. Even very simple tasks recruit numerous areas of the brain. It is virtually impossible to teach exclusively to one hemisphere or the other.
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a. American Sign Language b. plastic tokens c. lexigrams d. all of the above
A student's final course or subject grade is an example of summative evaluation
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model establishes health and safety regulations that schools must follow.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A fifth grade teacher began an author study by introducing several books written by Donna
Jo Napoli. Of the following, the primary reason for implementing author studies with students in the middle grades is to: a) monitor the books that the students read b) provide role models to inspire their writing c) restrict their reading to specific genres d) demonstrate the difficulties that writers encounter