How should instructional tools (i.e., instructional strategies, models, or technologies) make learning more efficient, effective, or engaging?
What will be an ideal response?
Instructional tools should help make learning more efficient by saving time, energy, and/or money in the instructional process. Tools also should make learning more effective in that student learning is greater, deeper, or more rewarding for students and their teacher. Finally, tools make learning more engaging by enhancing student interest, whether it be cognitive, affective, or psychomotor engagement. (From The Use of Instructional Tools).
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a. Regularly model the type of interaction you want to see from them. b. Circulate among the groups more quickly so they get lots of feedback. c. Give them a list of questions to ask. d. Remind them that when they need help, they should ask you.
In the United States, a subject-centered curriculum
A) was in place in the earliest schools. B) has been increasingly adopted by more schools. C) reflects the latest research on successful schools. D) caters to the needs of more individual students than any other curriculum.
Scribner and Cole’s research with the Vair people in Western Africa suggested that:
literacy leads to a ‘restructuring’ of human cognitive functioning learning to read and write does not improve general cognitive abilities the psychological consequences of reading and writing are dramatic literacy is a flexible tool, but it transforms thinking in one distinct way
Explain why socialization is described as "one of two primary purposes [along with academic instruction] of education." In what ways do cultural and linguistic differences pose challenges for teachers?
What will be an ideal response?