Reflect on how lacking in one of the areas of effective teaching can affect a teacher's success in the class.
What will be an ideal response?
Teachers must master a variety of perspectives and strategies and be flexible in their application. This requires the following key ingredients: (1) professional knowledge and skills, and (2) commitment, motivation, and caring. Professional knowledge and skills include subject matter competence, instructional strategies, goal setting and instructional planning skills, classroom management skills, motivational skills, communication skills, working effectively with students from culturally diverse backgrounds, and technology skills. Commitment, caring, and motivation include developing positive attitudes and enthusiasm, utilizing one's sense of humor, maintaining a list of positive teacher characteristics, engaging in perspective taking, and being willing to wear many hats.
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Jamie is finishing her associate’s degree and has a part-time job. As she starts to look for a full-time job, she realizes that her desk is very disorganized. She missed paying a bill for her apartment and finally found it buried under some important class notes she thought she’d lost. (The business cards she’d been looking for since the career fair two weeks ago were also in the
pile of paper.) Keeping up with follow-up phone calls for her job search, juggling her class and work schedule, and taking care of her day-to-day needs is harder than she thought it would be. She knows she needs a system to stay on top of everything. What suggestions do you have for Jamie as she organizes her desk?
If a school leader is of the Theory X persuasion, his/her behavior is likely to reflect the notion that:
a. Most people would rather be directed and do not want to take responsibility for anything related to their job. b. Most people are pretty reliable and responsible employees. c. When properly motivated, people can be self-directed and creative at work. d. No individuals need to be directed.
Rodney, a new student in your school, is described as being mildly intellectually handicapped. and he is mainstreamed into your class. If he fits the characteristics for this description, which of the following is the most accurate statement?
a. His intellectual functioning will be about average, but he will have difficulty with a particular basic skill, such as reading, and his IEP will focus on extra assistance in this area. b. While his intellectual functioning will be about average, he will have trouble functioning effectively in the general education classroom, and his IEP will focus on helping him develop basic social skills. c. His intellectual functioning will be significantly limited, and his IEP will focus on his mastering basic academic skills—reading, writing, and math. d. His intellectual functioning will be significantly limited, and his IEP will focus both on basic academic skills—reading, writing, and math—as well as the skills needed to function in society.
On a miscue analysis, a high semantic similarity and low graphic similarity suggests that the student is __________
A) neglecting phonics B) integrating phonics and contextual clues C) overusing phonics D) neglecting context