Ms. Greyson teaches freshman English and enjoys positive relationships with her students. She uses the following strategies and skills in her teaching:
She shows respect for students and addresses them by name. She speaks politely and uses please and thank you when she calls on them during class discussions. She uses interactive teaching strategies that encourage all students to participate. Many of her tasks involve group work, and she avoids competitive tasks. She uses encouragement to help students persevere with difficult tasks, and she does not use insults or putdowns at any time. With writing assignments, she uses portfolio assessment and helps students appreciate the progress they make during the year.
Addressing all aspects of Ms. Greyson's teaching (as described in this question), explain the effects of Ms. Greyson's strategies and skills on her students' self-concepts.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Robyn is meeting her teachers on the first day of fifth grade. Based on questions they asked her, which one of Robyn's teachers seems to understand appropriateness of the use of labels and language associated with differences in abilities and disabilities?
a. What happened to cause you to be confined to a wheelchair?
b. How does being handicapped affect your day at school?
c. What do you like to do during recess?
d. Where would you like to sit to accommodate your handicap?
Ques. 3Mr. Cooke teaches the fourth grade and expects his students to show a high level of independence about completing assignments, following procedures, and keeping up with homework and other daily responsibilities. School started two months ago, and Mr. Cooke is becoming increasingly frustrated with Teagan and her unwillingness to stick with difficult tasks. Teagan does not take risks or accept challenges. She prefers to work on assignments that are easy, and she stops when she faces a challenge. Rather than asking for help, she either turns in an incomplete assignment or hides it in her desk. During group work, she seldom speaks up and only wants to fill roles that are easy for her. She is intellectually capable of succeeding academically, but she is not successfully resolving the developmental crisis of her current stage of psychosocial development.
Using Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, describe the developmental crisis Teagan must resolve. Suggest strategies Mr.
Cooke might use to help Teagan resolve the crisis productively.
Ques. 4Mrs. Berry teaches fifth grade in an inner city school. The students in the district have not performed well on standardized tests and the school board is proposing changes in order to increase the amount of academic time students spend in the classroom. If the changes are approved, Mrs. Berry's fifth graders will no longer have a recess during the school day. Mrs. Berry has researched this matter and wants to address the school board.
What points might she make from her research that are likely to influence the board's decision?
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 5In Jonathan Haidt's research, he identified three key principles that comprise his Social Intuitionist Model. Which of the following statements represents one of his key principles?
a. Reasoning comes first and intuition comes second in moral judgment.
b. Moral judgment is based on justice and welfare.
c. Moral values include loyalty, authority, sanctity, and liberty.
d. Moral judgment binds groups with shared beliefs and makes them more open to moral beliefs of other groups.
Ques. 6Kim heard her grandmother speak Mandarin from the time she was born. Her adopted brother never heard Mandarin as a baby or as a child. As Kim grows up, she is more likely than her adopted brother to produce native sounds in Mandarin. This illustrates which of the three ongoing debates surrounding development?
a. Nature versus nurture
b. Critical versus sensitive periods
c. Continuity versus discontinuity
d. Qualitative versus quantitative change
Ques. 7Three questions surrounding development pose continuing debate among researchers and theorists. Which of the following is one of those questions?
a. Do people develop at the same rate?
b. Does development take place gradually?
c. Is development orderly?
d. What is the shape of development?
Ques. 8Levi is like most other children in elementary school, learning new skills and coming to some understanding of his abilities in comparison to the abilities of peers. At this stage of psychosocial development, which developmental crisis is Levi learning to resolve?
a. Identity versus role confusion
b. Initiative versus guilt
c. Industry versus inferiority
d. Generativity versus stagnation