What is the overarching goal of multicultural education?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Multicultural education sees the school as a powerful tool for promoting cultural
differences and cultural pluralism. This may be seen as being at odds with the goals of
general education.
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In seeking to build positive relationships with the families of the children in your classroom, you should take all but which of the following steps?
a. Communicate regularly with the family b. Provide the family with a list of clear guidelines for what their child should be accomplishing c. Work with the family to establish common goals for the child's education and care d. Find ways to incorporate the family's culture into the child's education
Teacher-directed instruction that proceeds in small steps resulting in high student achievement is called
a. explicit teaching. b. higher-order teaching. c. rote learning. d. time-on-task.
Mrs. Lorena teaches a fifth-grade class and has five students who read several years below grade level. The five students who struggle with reading are hesitant to choose books at their level because they are afraid that others will make fun of them. Mrs. Lorena is frustrated because she knows that these students will never improve their reading ability without multiple enjoyable experiences for
reading. What can Mrs. Lorena do to make the "difficult" books more accessible for these older readers? What will be an ideal response?
If you find that income significantly varies on the basis of gender, you have ______.
a. a main effect b. an interaction effect c. both a main effect and an interaction effect d. neither a main effect nor an interaction effect