Ms. Girardi, a sixth-grade teacher, is explaining an assignment. She notices two students passing notes to one another. While continuing to discuss the assignment, she moves toward the students and confiscates the written notes.
Then she walks back to the front of the class without discontinuing her lecture and asks Mark (who seems to be daydreaming) to answer a question. This scenario best illustrates which one of the following classroom management skills?
a. Negative reinforcement
b. Withitness
c. Scaffolding
d. Planning for transitions
Ques. 2Many students in Ms. Janklow's class seem to have little intrinsic motivation for learning math, science, or social studies. Their minds are more apt to be on peer relationships (who the popular kids are, who bullies whom in the schoolyard, etc.)
than on their studies. Without knowing anything else about Ms. Janklow's students, your best guess would be that they are:
a. Kindergartners
b. Second graders
c. Fourth graders
d. Seventh graders
Ques. 3One strategy for maintaining a productive classroom environment is to keep students productively engaged at all times. Three of the following practices reflect this strategy. Which one does not?
a. Ms. Aguilar makes sure that all the equipment students need for their science lab is ready for them before they arrive.
b. Mr. Barnard keeps his art lesson moving along at a steady pace.
c. Ms. Cunitz takes time out from her math lesson to help Sam with a difficult concept until he thoroughly understands it.
d. Mr. Dunbar plans several simple activities for his students on their first day of kindergarten.
Ques. 4As we have discovered, challenging tasks are often the ones that are most likely to promote students' learning and cognitive development. Yet students sometimes resist such challenges.
Which one of the following is consistent with the textbook's recommendation for how to incorporate challenging activities into the classroom curriculum?
a. Start the year with relatively easy tasks that give students a sense of success, then gradually increase the difficulty level of assignments.
b. Start the year with few if any requirements, allowing students to feel comfortable in their new classroom, and then begin assigning challenging tasks after a week or two.
c. Start the year with extremely difficult assignments, then make them slightly easier after a few days.
d. Explain to students that they have little to gain from doing things they already know how to do.
Ques. 5Three of the following strategies may help promote a sense of community in the classroom. Which strategy is least likely to promote this sense of community?
a. Encouraging prosocial behavior
b. Providing opportunities for students to tutor one another on difficult subject matter
c. Incorporating students' ideas into classroom discussions
d. Publicly praising students who consistently outperform their classmates
Ques. 6Which one of the following is consistent with the textbook's recommendations regarding establishing rules and procedures for the classroom?
a. Begin with a few basic rules and procedures; as the year goes on, involve students in decision making about additional issues that arise.
b. Allow students to establish all rules for daily classroom routines and procedures.
c. Make a complete list of expectations for students' behavior; distribute and explain it on the first day of class.
d. In fifth grade and above, have a full academic lesson on the first day; most students at this level already know what behaviors are acceptable in the classroom.
Ques. 7Students are most likely to follow classroom rules if they understand the reasons behind the rules. Below are four possible ways teachers might help students learn why a few rules for classroom behavior are essential.
Which one is most consistent with recommendations offered in the textbook?
a. If students are capable of deductive reasoning, explain the logic behind each rule and procedure.
b. Have students discuss problems that arise in the classroom and develop possible ways of solving them.
c. Describe what a classroom with no rules and procedures would be like.
d. Let the class operate without rules for the first week or two.
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