Mr. Sanders teaches in a school district where students are predominantly Native Americans. In this situation, which one of the following would best illustrate culturally responsive teaching?
a. Conducting math races in which students in a particular row go to the chalkboard and try to solve math problems more quickly than their classmates
b. Asking students to take turns responding to teacher questions during whole-class discussions
c. Conducting cooperative learning activities in which students work together to create maps of their local community
d. Posting a class honor roll of students who get the five highest scores on class spelling tests each week
Ques. 2Ms. Green has designed a grading system whereby each student has a chance to earn an A in her class. Each exam, book report, and homework assignment is graded based on the how much total knowledge a student has mastered in that particular area. Ms. Green then just takes an average of all the smaller grades to assign overall grades. Ms. Green is using which of the following grading systems?
a. contract system
b. percentage grading system
c. summative system
d. total point grading system
Ques. 3Which of the following is defined as Allotting the time to listen to a student in a concerned manner and encouraging the student to state the problem fully?
a. no-lose method
b. active listening
c. paraphrasing
d. overlapping
Ques. 4When the teacher owns the problem, what should the teacher do?
a. use active listening
b. ignore the problem
c. use the no-lose method
d. use the group consequence system
Ques. 5When the student owns the problem, and the problem persists, what should you, the teacher, do?
a. use active listening
b. use the no-lose method
c. ignore it
d. use the group consequence system
Ques. 6Considering Piaget's theory of cognitive development, we would expect a student in the concrete operational stage to have the greatest difficulty with which one of the following questions?
a. An apple pie is cut into 4 pieces. A blueberry pie of the same size is cut into 12 pieces. How many pieces of blueberry pie do you need to have the same amount as 3 pieces of the apple pie?
b. In what way are an apple and a blueberry alike?
c. If we have one row of blueberries arranged like so: o o o o o o
and another row of blueberries arranged like so: o o o o o o
then does one row have more blueberries than the other?
d. If you have 8 Macintosh apples and 2 Jonathan apples, then do you have more Macintoshes or more apples?
Ques. 7Joel is loud and disruptive in Miss Taylor's class today. Who owns this problem?
a. Joel
b. the principal
c. Joel and Miss Taylor
d. Miss Taylor
Ques. 8The following four junior high school science teachers are teaching the concept molecule to their students. In each classroom, some of the students have acquired formal operational reasoning abilities, whereas others think in a concrete operational manner. In which classroom are the concrete operational students most likely to have difficulty understanding?
a. Mr. Armani lets students touch and manipulate concrete models of various molecules.
b. Mr. Bendetti lets students look at the same concrete models that Mr. Armani has used.
c. Mr. Carmen verbally describes how different elements are made up of different numbers of neutrons, protons, and electrons.
d. Mr. Davidson has students role-play being neutrons, protons, and electrons. The neutron and proton students huddle together in the middle of the room, and the electrons move around them.
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