Mr. Jimenez, a high school math teacher recognizes that one of his students seems to be left out a lot when students are choosing partners or groups and picked on frequently for being different. Why is this situation particularly harmful in a high school setting? - Answer- The influence of peers is strongest in adolescence. Providing students with various tools based on their level of understanding of a topic is an example of which instructional strategy? -Answer- Scaffolding Allowing prekindergarten students free choice in their learning centers helps develop their decision-making skills. Which of the following will also help them develop decisionmaking skills? -Answer- Including a variety of appropriate materials. Mrs. Toups, a 5th grade teacher in an advanced math classroom is using an online stock market simulation to teach her students about economics. Students have $100,000 to invest in the stock simulation and they must track their investments overtime. During the project, her students will work independently to address the economics and technology objectives. Many of her students are unfamiliar with the stock market, so this is a challenge that her project faces. To prepare, Mrs. Toups creates the following lesson sequence for the project: Days 1-3: provide project details and background information about the stock market and the online simulation. Days 4-5: Facilitate the selection of stocks through internet research. Days 6-18: Support students as they track their investments using a spreadsheet. Days 19-20: Present an evaluation of the success of the students' investment strategies, using graphs created in a spreadsheet program. Based on the sequence of the lesson, when would it be most beneficial to students to provide them instruction on a decision-making strategy? -Answer- Days 4-5 After a long research project, a teacher has her students fill out a post project report that looks like the following: Post Project Report: Write and submit by the end of the Day 16 a one-page report that answers the following questions: What part of this project was most challenging? What was the most interesting part of the project? What do you wish you had done differently? Which of the following skills are the students developing as the complete the post project report? -Answer- Reflection Mr. Givens has assigned a research project to the students in his senior government class regarding voting and how the popular vote is different than the electoral vote. Following the research portion of the assignment, he requires students to hold a mock election for the neighboring elementary school. The primary purpose of the mock election is for the high school students to develop which of the following skills? -Answer- Application Mrs. Valle frequently uses independent work stations in her first-grade classroom. The primary purpose of the workstations is to create an environment in which her students can choose which projects they want to work on, complete and share with the class. Even though Mrs. Valle has carefully planned what the students will do at each station, many students seem unsure of what to do. What should Mrs. Valle do to help her students understand how to work independently at the workstations? -Answer- Have student volunteers role-play how to work in the stations. Mrs. McDowell notices some abrupt changes in one of her 4th grade students, Lainey. Though Lainey has never had behavior issues, she is now consistently disrupting class, and making significantly lower grades than she used to. Mrs. McDowell has also noticed that Lainey has been hanging around a different group of students, many of whom have a history of behavior issues like the ones Lainey is now exhibiting. What is the best initial response for Mrs. McDowell? -Answer- Discuss her concerns with Lainey in a firm but caring manner, while gathering information so she can better assist her. Ms. Davis is teaching her class a lesson in the science lab. Before she lets them begin their group work, she goes over the proper procedures for gathering necessary lab supplies and returning them to the proper place after use. The primary reason she explains these procedures is to -Answer- Promote students' organizational skills. Mrs. Peterson has a classroom made up of general education students, students with disabilities, and English Learners. Which teaching strategy would best benefit the English Learners? -Answer- Using visuals in combination with oral directions. Zoe is a 4th-grade student who really enjoys collecting, caring for animals, and classifying items. What type of intelligence is Zoe expressing? -Answer- Naturalistic Mr. Jones creates a menu of assignments for students to select from to determine how well they have learned the material from the previous unit on Texas History. The primary value of this approach is that it allows the teacher to -Answer- address the various learning styles in the classroom. Yeung Ma is an English learner who demonstrates little or no ability to use English in writing. Yeung Ma uses occasional high-frequency words in her writing although they do not create meaning. Which of the following best identifies Yeung's level of English language proficiency in writing? -Answer- Beginning