Midterm Ch 1-4, 7-8

Question 1

When a teacher provides instruction, models skills and provides opportunities to apply the new concepts, they are using the deductive method and following:

Answer 1

Teacher-centered practices

Question 2

Deductive teaching practices proceeds from:

Answer 2

Known to unknown

Question 3

The inquiry and discovery approaches to teaching are very successful in elementary as well as in high school. Teachers that follow these approaches generally emphasize the:

Answer 3

Inductive model

Question 4

When a child first sees a penguin he notices that it looks like a bird, but is bigger and cannot fly, he gets confused and unable to fit this new concept in his existing schema of birds. Based on Piaget’s theory, we can say that the child is at a stage of —- in the learning process.

Answer 4

Disequilibrium

Question 5

Centration appears to be a big hurdle for students at the sensorimotor stage. Students at this stage experience difficulties to accomplish the following task:

Answer 5

Categorize objects based on multiple criteria

Question 6

What is he key educational implication for Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs?

Answer 6

Meeting he needs of the child is a prerequisite for learning

Question 7

Mr. Barron integrated reading and science by first introducing a story about a family who was shipwrecked on an island… He did very little talking and had groups work through the project on their own as he walked around smoothing out a few problems. His main role a a teacher on this lesson was:

Answer 7

Facilitator

Question 8

Scaffolding as a strategy is to provide children with:

Answer 8

The guidance and support in help in be learning process

Question 9

According to Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, children often use private speech as a way to:

Answer 9

Guide and monitor their thinking process

Question 10

A schema is:

Answer 10

A category of knowledge that allows us to interpret and understand the world

Question 11

According to Piaget, children in the concrete operational stage have difficulty with:

Answer 11

Deductive logic

Question 12

A key advantage of the Concept of Attainment model of teaching is that students:

Answer 12

Develop a deeper understanding of the concept and helps them retain information

Question 13

ARD stands for:

Answer 13

Admission, Review, and Dismissal

Question 14

The process during which an individual or group completely takes on the traits of another leaving behind the ancestral culture is known as:

Answer 14

Assimilation

Question 15

One intensive way to learn about children of diversity is through an approach called:

Answer 15

Funds of knowledge

Question 16

IEP stands for

Answer 16

Individual Education Plan

Question 17

CALP stands for:

Answer 17

Cognitive academic language proficiency

Question 18

BICS stands for

Answer 18

Basic interpersonal communication skills

Question 19

LEP stands for:

Answer 19

Limited English Proficiency

Question 20

ELL stands for:

Answer 20

English language learner

Question 21

— assumes students have no culture and that is why they do poorly in school.

Answer 21

Cultural deprivation

Question 22

Wait time and halt time allow students time to interpret information and questions presented. As a result of these 2 strategies students are able to:

Answer 22

Present a thorough and elaborative contribution to the class

Question 23

TEKS stands for:

Answer 23

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

Question 24

The — tells exactly what children will do in the lesson

Answer 24

Objective

Question 25

In the lesson plan — is how you will reinforce what children have learned for one last time

Answer 25

Closure

Question 26

The highest level of thinking in Blooms Taxonomy is

Answer 26

Evaluation

Question 27

The lowest level of thinking in Blooms Taxonomy is:

Answer 27

Knowledge

Question 28

The terms classical conditioning and operant conditioning are linked to the following theory of learning:

Answer 28

Behaviorism

Question 29

In operant conditioning, positive and negative reinforcements are used to:

Answer 29

Encourage children to continue exhibiting a specific behavior

Question 30

What is the key advantage of problem solving as a model of teaching?

Answer 30

It allows opportunities to extend learning beyond the confines of the school and the problem presented

Question 31

Based on the Processing Theory, info stored in the short term memory:

Answer 31

Can be lost

Question 32

Rehearsal, chunking, and/or linking new info to existing data can help students to:

Answer 32

Store the info in long term memory

Question 33

Constructivism is a learning theory linked to the following school of psychology:

Answer 33

Cognitive

Question 34

The term assimilation is used in the theory of Constructivism in a similar fashion as Piaget’s term of:

Answer 34

Equilibrium

Question 35

The term accommodation is used in Constructivism to represent a learning stage where students:

Answer 35

Expand current schema to add new concepts and info

Question 36

When a teacher ask different students to explain how they arrived to a resolution of a given problem, he is emphasizing:

Answer 36

Metacognitive strategies

Question 37

Ms. Jefferson developed an activity where students were guided to notice and identify details of a painting… Best represent Mayra’s learning style?

Answer 37

Field dependent/sensitive

Question 38

Mr. Andre has an AP class in a local high school. He demands a lot from his students… What kind of intelligence is Marco Antonio displaying?

Answer 38

Emotional

Question 39

Punishment is used in behaviorism psychology to:

Answer 39

Stop or decrease a behavior.

Question 40

Ms. Rodriguez is known for her excellent communication skills… We can assume that in Ms. Rodriguez lessons, wait time is:

Answer 40

Used to encourage students to think deeply about questions.

Question 41

Mr. Jones wants to communicate effectively with his students so that his feedback is effective. Which would be most effective?

Answer 41

Juan, good idea!

Question 42

Effective teachers are those who have mastered the art of:

Answer 42

Questioning

Question 43

A questions that has one answer is a — question.

Answer 43

Convergent

Question 44

A question that has many possible answers is a — question.

Answer 44

Divergent

Question 45

The time between asking a question and calling on a student for a response is —.

Answer 45

Wait time

Question 46

Ms. Jones was responding to a student’s answer to her question.. upset voice and crossed arms… The student responded more to the teacher’s:

Answer 46

Nonverbal messages

Question 47

Teachers that allow students to work together to learn new concepts and experiences follow:

Answer 47

Student-centered instruction

Question 48

Police officers, scientists, and investigators in general analyze all available pieces of evidence to arrive at conclusions. What method are they following to do their job?

Answer 48

Inductive

Question 49

In Concept Attainment, students are guided to decipher the name of a concept through the use of examples and non-examples. This model of teaching primarily represents:

Answer 49

Inductive model of teaching

Question 50

The concepts of reinforcement and punishment as instructional and classroom management strategies is linked to the following approach:

Answer 50

Behavioral