TRUE/FALSE. 1) To understand their students, inclusive and responsive teachers begin by understanding themselves.
2) Inclusive and responsive teachers minimize student differences.
3) Students who are racial or ethnic minorities tend to be spread evenly throughout U.S. schools.
4) The majority of US families lack in-home access to the Internet.
5) U.S. classrooms are steadily desegregating.
6) The effects of out-of-school factors (such as poverty) on student achievement cannot be ameliorated by even the most dedicated schools and teachers.
7) The primary benefit of effective teacher-student relationships is a warm feeling tone in class.
8) Empirical research clearly links learning styles-based instruction to increased student achievement.
9) Research indicates prevalent ethnically-based differences in how much families care about their children’s success.
10) A core component of effective family-school partnerships is that they employ mutual accommodation.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
11) The best synonym for “inclusive and responsive teacher” is ___.
A) friend
B) parent
C) learner
D) champion
12) Ladson-Billings's term education debt refers to the ______ .
A) increasing gap between U.S. scores and scores of students in other countries.
B) high cost of education in a democracy
C) debt we owe to previous generations who structured and supported U.S. education
D) cumulative educational inequities experienced by some groups in the United States.
13) Kottler urges teachers to act as anthropologists because anthropologists ______.
A) will challenge their own assumptions by examining students' values, customs, and experiences.
B) have a greater knowledge base than teachers and, thus, should serve as a model for educators.
C) know many languages and can blend in with different cultures, thus supporting the learning of all students.
D) are able to stay detached from students' potentially difficult home lives.
14) Which of the following is NOT true about family-school connections?
A) “Connections” should be narrowly defined to meet the demands of the local context.
B) Schools should ask families about the communication avenues most effective for them.
C) Family members should be considered experts on their children.
D) Home or community visits provide useful information to teachers.
15) Which of the following statements about learning styles does the chapter say is true? Learning styles ______.
A) are useful primarily for secondary teachers who have little time to get to know their students
B) are impractical for the 21st century classroom
C) remind teachers to provide varied and rich instruction
D) are related to general intelligence
16) “Cultural encapsulation” is the tendency for ____________
A) teachers to treat students who share the same culture as being all the same.
B) people of the dominant culture to not identify with their own race.
C) students to dissociate from teachers whose cultures do not match the students’ cultures.
D) all of the above.
17) The chapter argues that, in place of their own assumptions about students and families, teachers should
A) Rely on the theoretical research
B) Gather and analyze data related to their specific students and families
C) Check the web for tips and tricks
D) Talk with teachers in the lounge at lunch
18) Which of the following data sources is the most appropriate choice for getting to know about students’ interests?
A) Standardized test results
B) Cumulative records
C) Individual Education Programs
D) Surveys
19) Web-based communication tools are _____.
A) varied and widely available
B) inappropriate except in wealthy schools
C) available solely in English
D) typically expensive
20) Typical practices for home-school connections are ____.
A) equally welcoming to all families
B) satisfactory in the amount of information they convey to families
C) limited in their scope
D) based on upper-class assumptions of education
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