Provide a list of at least ten guidelines for a new teacher who wants to create a classroom community. Which aspects of these guidelines do you feel will be most challenging for you?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Response should expand on any of the guidelines from the sidebar in the chapter: 1) be prepared; 2) understand and share expectations; 3) develop rules collaboratively; 4) establish continuity and consistency; 5) admit mistakes and use humor; 6) monitor and detect unacceptable behavior early; 7) redirect inappropriate behaviors; 8) make respect a central aspect of the classroom culture; 9) minimize power differential in everyday communications; 10) keep calm; 11) attempt to connect classroom content to students' lives and cultures; 12) build students' confidence in their own intelligence and creativity; 13) have engaging activities available immediately; 14) keep lecturing to a minimum; 15) create experiences to allow students to feel good about themselves. Responses to the last portion will vary.
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a. Type of cream is the independent variable. b. Type of cream is the dependent variable. c. The independent variable has three values. d. The skin assessment measure is the independent variable. e. The dependent variable is continuous.
In factorial analysis of variance, a. we employ multiple t-tests. b. we can analyze the effects of one independent variable on a singledependent variable
c. the total variance is divided into two parts. d. the main effects and the interaction effects of two or more independentvariables on a single dependent variable are analyzed.
In the "Plan-Do-Review" process, adults do which of the following?
A. Review children's work and make suggestions for what children can do to improve. B. Have children describe what they want to do, encourage them to do it, then help children reflect on what they did. C. Assess children's learning and then provide each child with an individualized learning plan which children then carry out. D. None of these
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A. a biological risk B. an economic and social risk C. an environmental risk D. an established risk