TRUE/FALSE.
1) To build connections, it is the teacher's responsibility to challenge students' current ways of thinking and help them form more accurate conceptions.
2) Teachers' organizational skills are linked to student achievement.
3) A graphic organizer that hierarchically arranges information and shows interrelationships among ideas is called a content map.
4) Computer-based technology provides access to an effective model because target performances can be repeated, often at different speeds.
5) Praise is the most effective form of feedback.
6) Although limited student talk is a prevalent U.S. classroom pattern, students in lower groups have even fewer opportunities to talk in class.
7) Active participation refers to opportunities that all students have to think deeply about the content during a lesson.
8) Opportunities for students to talk in detail about the content support their achievement.
9) The benefits of student movement decrease with student age, so older students should sit for extended periods if we are maximize their achievement.
10) Beginning a lesson in an engaging way capitalizes on the primacy effect.
10) In general education settings, students with special needs tend to have plentiful opportunities to interact with their typically developing peers.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.
11) It is important that teachers help students connect because ______.
A) prior knowledge can be inaccurate
B) prior knowledge is correlated to knowledge gained during a lesson
C) student-student connections support academic progress
D) all of the above
12) In choosing the size and number of information chunks per lesson, the teacher should consider students' ______.
A) linguistic proficiency
B) familiarity with the content
C) age
D) all of the above.
13) To give clear directions teacher should always ______.
A) explicitly explain to students what not to do
B) provide negative consequences for students who do not comply
C) use finger signals or varied intonation for emphasis
D) all of the above
14) When using modeling, teachers should ______.
A) focus on content and social skills
B) include a variety of models
C) both A and B
D) none of the above
15) During every lesson, the two sets of outcomes teachers should include for their English learners are ______ objectives.
A) content and social skill
B) comprehensible input and output
C) English language and U.S culture
D) content and English language
16) According to Glasser's motivation theory, humans hold all of the following motivations EXCEPT the need to ______.
A) belong
B) have fun
C) create
D) acquire power
17) To best encourage active participation, a teacher wishing to modify a traditional class wide spelling bee should use ______.
A) a whip
B) individual white boards
C) unison response
D) an interactive white board
18) A teacher wants to increase the number of students who are willing to share during a class discussion. Which active participation strategy holds most promise for this purpose?
A) peer interview
B) choral response
C) student-led recitation
D) peer coaching
19) The most important thing we should provide though our instruction is __________.
A) a sense of self worth
B) opportunities to practice
C) clear assessments
D) meaningful challenge
20) Students in a science class apparently feel too threatened to ask questions class. The first thing the teacher should try is ______.
A) throwing candy to those who ask questions
B) having a bright student work the problems on the board initially
C) having partners talk first and develop a shared question
D) taking off points if students do not ask a question
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