Three of the following suggestions are apt to be helpful when teachers work with students and their parents. Choose the strategy that is apt to be counterproductive.
a. Keep in mind that many children do well in school despite less-than-optimal parenting styles at home.
b. Acknowledge that authoritarian methods may be quite appropriate if families live in dangerous neighborhoods.
c. Point out that parents who use authoritarian methods may be causing some of their children's behavior problems.
d. Keep in mind that many parents from Asian cultures effectively combine elements of authoritative and authoritarian parenting.
Ques. 2Three of the following strategies are likely to promote moral development. Which one, although possibly appropriate in certain situations, is not likely to promote students' moral development?
a. Giving students reasons why some behaviors are unacceptable
b. Having students discuss moral issues related to classroom subject matter
c. Making sure that students know who is boss in the classroom
d. Modeling morally appropriate behavior
Ques. 3Which one of the following should you definitely do if you suspect that one of your students is the victim of abuse or neglect at home?
a. Keep a close eye on the student over the next few weeks, looking for additional evidence that either supports or disconfirms your suspicions.
b. Spend some one-on-one time with the student in an effort to get him or her to confide in you.
c. Immediately report your suspicions to a school administrator or social services.
d. Temporarily lower your expectations for the student's academic performance until conditions at home seem to improve.
Ques. 4Three of the following strategies should encourage positive interactions among students with diverse backgrounds or special educational needs. Which strategy is not likely to do so?
a. Treat students as if they all share the same cultural values and beliefs.
b. Ask students from different backgrounds to work together in lab activities.
c. Encourage all students to participate in extracurricular activities.
d. If parents give permission, teach students about the nature of the specific disabilities that some of their classmates may have.
Ques. 5Fourteen-year-old Wayne has a history of aggressive behavior toward other students, and so his classmates have naturally kept their distance from him over the years.
But Wayne has worked extensively with the school counselor in recent months, and his interpersonal behavior has improved dramatically. Wayne's teachers must remember, however, that:
a. Such improvement is likely to be short-lived.
b. Other students will continue to reject Wayne unless they can be convinced that he has changed.
c. Wayne's self-esteem regarding his ability to succeed at academic tasks is likely to have decreased in the meantime.
d. Wayne's aggressive behavior is likely to reappear whenever he is placed in a competitive situation.
Ques. 6Three of the following strategies are consistent with the textbook's discussion of bullying. Which one is not consistent?
a. Offer emotional support to the victims of bullies, and help them make friends with students who might protect them against future bullying.
b. Help students get a good understanding of what bullying is, pointing out that it can involve either physical or psychological harm.
c. Ignore minor incidents of bullying if the victims are immature and need some toughening up.
d. Create a system through which students can anonymously report incidents of bullying they see in the halls, on the playground, and elsewhere.
Ques. 7Which one of the following teacher behaviors is most likely to promote students' social development?
a. Ms. Grice allows her fourth graders to fight with the class bully so that he will learn from their negative feedback.
b. Mr. Freeman takes his sixth-grade class to see a violent film and then stresses the importance of not engaging in such violence.
c. Ms. Little isolates those students who can't get along with others so that they don't promote discord in the classroom.
d. Mr. Tutwiler describes the prosocial behaviors he expects of his students and gives concrete examples of such behaviors.
Ques. 8Which one of the following examples best illustrates a student who has had training in peer mediation?
a. At the request of his teacher, Saul makes a check mark on an index card every time Robert speaks out in class without permission. At the end of each hour, Saul tells Robert how many check marks he has made.
b. Melinda and Forrest work together on their math homework, thinking carefully about how to do each problem and then taking it one step at a time.
c. LaVonda and Sally take turns reading excerpts from their textbook; they occasionally stop to reflect on how the new information relates to what they have previously learned.
d. When he sees two of his classmates arguing at lunch, Abbott joins them and encourages each of them to look at the conflict from the other's perspective.
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