Describe plasticity and sensitive periods and explain how experience, plasticity, and sensitive periods all work together in developing the brain.
What will be an ideal response?
Plasticity is the ability of the brain to be modified by experiences. Sensitive periods are the windows of opportunity in which the brain is open to optimal learning. Through the combination of experience, plasticity, and sensitive periods, the brain is able to continue to develop over the lifespan.
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A. more challenging for students. B. less standards-based and test-oriented. C. more relevant to all students. D. more multicultural. E. stronger in literacy and foreign language skills instruction.
Mr. Evans is a new teacher who wants to avoid the negative effects of teacher expectations. If he follows the guidelines of expert educators, he will do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. provide support without challenging students. b. be flexible in grouping students for academic tasks. c. provide prompts for low-achieving students during class discussions. d. call on low achievers as often as high achievers.
Information literacy is
A) seeing the answer automatically. B) understanding that all activities provide information. C) the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand. D) the ability to know when there is an assessment happening at school.
Represent a thought in place of another to show that two ideas that are thought of as not alike are in fact similar
A. Idioms B. Metaphors C. Similes D. Proverbs