When a teacher plans differentiated content what might she focus her attention on?
a. The complexity of the topics introduced
b. The resources or materials provided
c. The scaffolding needed by students to reach the key concepts and skills
d. All of these answers.
[Ques. 2] Teaching within a students zone of proximal development means that students will be working on tasks:
a. that can be completed relatively easily with little support or guidance from the teacher.
b. slightly beyond their comfort zone so that they require some support from the teacher for learning to occur.
c. that are very difficult to complete without direct teacher instruction.
d. that can best be completed in a small group where members all bring different strengths to the task.
[Ques. 3] Which of the following is a strategy a teacher might use to differentiate instruction for student learning profile?
a. Develop a classroom that attends to varied needs for sound and visual stimulation.
b. Allow students to specialize in subtopics of a larger topic.
c. Provide reading partners or reading buddies.
d. Ask students to complete an interest survey to determine topics they would like to study.
[Ques. 4] Which of the following is NOT a factor in a student's learning profile?
a. The student's gender
c. The student's interests
b. The student's intelligence preference
d. The students culture
[Ques. 5] Which of the following is a strategy a teacher might use to differentiate instruction for student interests?
a. Show students how the content you teach shapes people's lives.
b. Use rubrics with clear indicators of quality at varied levels of sophistication.
c. Present in oral, visual, and tactile modes.
d. Provide audiotapes of the text at listening centers for auditory learners.
[Ques. 6] Which of the following is a strategy a teacher might use to differentiate instruction for student readiness?
a. Use interest centers and interest groups.
b. Provide organizers to help students follow the presentation sequence and focus on main ideas.
c. Design presentations to move through a cycle of intelligence or other learning preferences.
d. Provide respectful materials on a variety of reading levels.
[Ques. 7] How we teach is a response to which other classroom element?
a. Whom we teach
c. What we teach
b. Where we teach
d. All of these answers.
[Ques. 8] The text examines differentiation in relation to four classroom elements. Which of the following is NOT one of those elements?
a. Why we teach
b. Whom we teach
c. What we teach
d. How we teach
[Ques. 9] In terms of planning, a teacher who promotes a differentiated classroom:
a. proactively plans for student differences.
b. waits to see how students react to the lesson before introducing a differentiated approach.
c. plans for all students the same, and assesses during class to determine how to change the lesson for some students.
d. None of these answers.
[Ques. 10] Which statement most accurately describes differentiated instruction?
a. It is a useful strategy for when there is extra time.
b. It is a way of thinking about teaching and learning that pervades everything a teacher does.
c. It is very difficult because a teacher needs to create an individualized plan for each student.
d. It requires little extra effort from the teacher.
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