List four family, school, or job commitments you feel you do not spend enough time on. What strategies from the chapter will you use on each commitment to bring more balance to your life? What are some possible trade-offs?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary.
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The inquiry-based instructional approach is characterized as
a. conducting research and asking questions within the context of an engaging story. b. asking answering questions scientifically connoting “minds on” learning. c. centering on students with very little guidance needed at the early grades. d. deliberating about matters of public concern about which there is reasonable disagreement.
Robbie is a six-year-old boy who loves to draw and likes learning to write his letters at school. However, he is having great difficulties trying to write a series of letters to make words. Although he is usually calm and self-controlled, he becomes so frustrated with his writing task that he throws his pencil on the floor and tears up his paper. For the first time, he turns his back to his
teacher when she is talking to him. What might the teacher do to help Robbie have more emotional self-regulation in this situation? What will be an ideal response?
Tommy, one of your students, stutters. His exceptionality has been identified, and he works with a speech therapist twice a week. Which of the following is the most important responsibility you have in working with Tommy?
a. Display behaviors indicating that Tommy is an integral part of the class and should be accepted as such. b. Avoid ever calling on Tommy for fear of embarrassing him in case he will be unable to form the words for the answer. c. Avoid any discussion of students with exceptionalities to prevent attention being focused on Tommy's speech problem. d. Be sure that verbal interaction in the class is limited to prevent Tommy from being put at a disadvantage.
Which are the best multicultural resources for use in content area settings?
a. trade books b. Young Adult novels c. nonfiction informational texts d. it depends upon lesson goals, students' background, etc.