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| The Instructional Planning Cycle contains how many phases? |
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| Two levels of classroom preparation must occur to be successful: preparation and ________. |
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| is the teacher or student the key to learning in perceptual teaching? |
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| an awareness of one's mental precesses |
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| Does the home environment and peer group of students really influence their success in school? |
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| Yes. Environment was demonstrated to be influential to the learning process in Hollingshead's 1949 study. |
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| Describe the intentions behind "decentralized decision making". |
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| Teachers are more involved in making decisions about instruction. Teachers are also, therefore, held more responsible for the success of students. |
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| Research over the past few decades has shown which of the following to be more influential in curriculum development: teachers or principals? |
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| Instruction in the classroom is a subset of ________. |
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| Has standards-based instruction affected the role of the teacher? |
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| Yes. Wiles and Bondi describe this new role as "unbalanced". |
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| True or False: According to research, there is no loss in student achievement when making the curriculum student-centered as opposed to test-centered. |
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| Prior to 1913, the most common school organization system was grades 1-___ for elementary schools? |
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| "School organization changes to meet the changing needs of ________." - Wiles & Bondi |
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| Currently, schools are seeing an adjustment to K-____ schools. |
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| True or False: The restructuring of today's schools goes hand-in-hand with the new common standards adopted by most of America's states. |
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| True or False: Less than half of all mothers in America are also employed. |
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| False. More than half are employed, meaning that schools must continue to serve students in developing skills that stay-at-home parents once addressed. |
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| What was one of the contributing factors to initiating mandatory, free education of children in early American colonies? |
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| The Old Deluder Satan Act - teaching children to read scripture so that they could study the Bible and avoid the temptations of Satan. |
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| The Space Race against the Soviet Union and the launch of Sputnik contributed to American schools having more focus on what two subjects? |
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| Two often debated methods of teaching language are whole language and _______. |
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Which subject has the most research and money behind it?
a) Reading
b) Mathematics
c) Geography |
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| Are students who are identified as struggling readers encouraged to read at the beginning of the day or the end? |
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| the end, when they are tired (go figure!) |
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| Current standards-based education does not differentiate between gifted, normal, and low groups of children. All are held accountable to the same standards. Does research show this to be a good thing? |
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| Is childcare seen as a responsibility of some school districts? |
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| Yes. Some areas have seen this to be a necessity. |
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| Has research shown grade-level retention to be effective? |
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| Two basic types of organizing students is _______ and _______ grouping. |
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| Should organization and grouping be flexible? |
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