Discuss the impact of family status on child vocabulary.
What will be an ideal response?
Children in low-income situations are exposed to many fewer words than children from higher-income family status. By age four, children from wealthier families hear millions more words than their poorer peers.
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The setting in which an individual child is taught alone by a teacher is called
a. inclusion. b. consultation. c. one-to-one instruction. d. peer tutoring. e. collaboration.
Shauna is completing her student teaching in a seventh-grade science classroom and has been asked by her mentor teacher to participate in all parent–teacher conferences two evenings that week and two mornings before school begins. What is the correct disposition for Shauna to display in this scenario?
a. Shauna is required to be present only during teaching contractual hours, which does not cover the additional morning and evening hours, so she declines the invitation to participate. b. Shauna sees this as a marvelous learning opportunity and finds a way to be at all conferences because she values the learning experience with her mentor. c. Shauna tells her mentor that she already read about parent–teacher conferences in her collegiate textbooks and has no questions, so she won’t be attending. d. Shauna asks if she can only attend the conferences with nonconfrontational parents because the others scare her, and she likes to avoid conflict.
Transferable skills are those that one can
a. use with new and different jobs or careers. b. move from one course to another. c. teach someone else. d. use in school and on the job.
Which of the following terms in language convey an abstract and secondary meaning by expressing one thing but meaning something different?
a. Semantics b. Phonological awareness c. Morphology d. Figurative language