A first-year teacher in your school is not being offered a contract for her second year because the school enrollments have gone down, and the teaching staff is being reduced. Which of the following best describes the teacher's legal rights?
a. The school has to follow a due process procedure just as it would in the case of a tenured teacher being dismissed for incompetence.
b. The school has to follow a due process procedure just as it would in the case of a non-tenured teacher being dismissed for incompetence.
c. In some states a hearing will be required, but in most states the teacher can be dismissed without a hearing.
d. The teacher cannot be dismissed after the first year for any reason other than immoral behavior or committing a felony. Once the teacher has signed a legal contract, a district is legally obligated to give her a second year of employment.
c
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Little Angus is angry with himself for flunking a test. However, it is too painful for him to acknowledge this anger. In order to deal with his anxiety he believe his teacher is angry with him for flunking the test. What defense mechanism is Angus employing?
a. projection b. reaction formation c. sublimation d. undoing e. suppression
Which of the following is not a lesson the arts teach, as proposed by Eliot Eisner:
a. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution. b. The arts teach that children's learning can be speeded up with specialized training. c. The arts help children say what cannot be said. d. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives.
To monitor comprehension, a teacher asked his students to supply the missing words in the following passage: Today is Kyle's birthday. His father will bake a ________. Kyle's friends will come to his _______. That type of assessment is known as a (n):
a) informal reading inventory b) cloze procedure c) retelling d) DRA
The IDEA imposes an obligation on IEP teams to consider placing students in general education classrooms with supplementary aids and services before considering more restrictive alternatives
a. True False