All children experiences challenges as they grow up, but children from low-income families have more than their share.
a. Basing your response on the textbook's discussion of socioeconomic status, describe three different challenges that children from low-income families are apt to face that their more economically privileged peers do not face.
b. Identify three different teaching strategies that developmental theorists have identified as being especially beneficial for students from low-income families.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 2Research suggests that, in the United States, children from ethnic minority groups often have lower academic achievement when compared with children from the majority culture. Of the following, which one is not a likely reason for this disparity?
a. Children from minority groups experience environmental stresses associated with economic hardship.
b. Many teachers have low expectations for children from minority groups.
c. Children from minority groups selectively adopt customs of the majority culture rather than fully assimilate.
d. Children from minority groups have limited access to good schools and educational opportunities.
Ques. 3Three of the teachers below are using strategies appropriate for a culturally diverse classroom. With the textbook's discussion of ethnic and cultural diversity in mind, identify the teacher who is probably not promoting the classroom success of some of her students.
a. Ms. Andreas forms small, multicultural groups in which students describe and compare their perspectives about a recent international conflict.
b. Ms. Boynton uses competitive activities to get all students motivated to do their best.
c. Ms. Champas explains that ethnic jokes are unacceptable in her classroom.
d. Ms. Delaney makes sure she presents both the American and Mexican views of the Mexican-American War.
Ques. 4The melting pot view of acculturation is gradually giving way to a mosaic view. Describe the basic beliefs associated with each of these views of acculturation. Then explain why many developmentalists prefer the mosaic view.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 5Teachers should keep in regular contact with parents about how their children are performing and progressing at school. Describe four different strategies that you might use to open and/or maintain lines of communication with children's parents.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6Thirteen-year-old Kikuko emigrated from Japan to Canada when she was six years old. She tells her friends, I'm really proud to be Japanese. Japanese people are hard workers, but they're also very polite and cooperative. Such a statement suggests that Kikuko probably:
a. Has totally assimilated into Canadian culture
b. Has rejected Canadian culture
c. Has a strong ethnic identity
d. Associates only with peers who are also Japanese
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