Which of the following social behaviors typically first appears in early adolescence?
A. viewing friendship as a mutual relationship based on trust
B. organizing peer groups based on proximity and similarity in gender
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Which of the following social behaviors typically first appears in early adolescence?
A. viewing friendship as a mutual relationship based on trust
B. organizing peer groups based on proximity and similarity in gender and ethnicity
C. demonstrating awareness of gender stereotypes in personality traits
D. forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds, attitudes, and values -
D
Teachers in a middle school provide students with opportunities to participate in regular
exploratory activities designed to introduce them to a variety of specialized subjects
(e.g. archaeology, computer code, dance). These activities are likely to be most
effective in helping students begin to address which of the following challenges?
A. developing a sense of self-efficacy as a learner
B. forming an accurate perception of their abilities
C. making decisions about their future education & career
D. becoming independent and goal oriented in their learning - C
In which of the following situations is the teacher's strategy most likely to promote
students' ability to regulate their own learning?
A. a teacher shows students how to maintain a log of each book they read for recreation
during a grading period
B. a teacher helps each student identify weekly goals that target the student's specific
academic needs
C.a teacher uses the results of regularly administered interest inventories to select
reading materials for classroom activities
D. a teacher offers after-school review sessions before tests, but allows students to
decide for themselves whether to participate - B
Which of the following situations most clearly illustrates how a student's development in
one domain (e.g. cognitive, linguistic, physical, social, emotional) can affect
development and/or performance in another domain?
A. a student with severe physical disabilities exhibits strong verbal and conceptual skills
in her academic work
B. a student who is a talented athlete is also one of the highest achievers in her school
in math and science
C. a student with low self-esteem refuses to attempt new or challenging learning tasks
because he is sure he will fail
D. a student who is bilingual shows similar skills and confidence in both languages in
which he is proficient - CWhich of the following approaches is likely to be most effective in facilitating middle
school students' knowledge construction?
A. ensuring that students have access to information resources on a broad range of
topics
B. quizzing students frequently on new concepts and vocabulary
C. providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and meaningful
contexts
D. allowing students to establish their own goals and pace for learning - C
Which of the following practices is likely to be most effective in facilitating a teacher's
ability to provide effective instruction?
A. implementing systematic and comprehensive assessment of student learning
B. seeking student feedback about the performance incentives they find most motivating
C. developing a standard approach for presenting new content to students
D. including affective learning objectives in unit and lesson plans - A
A high school classroom includes students who exhibit significant variation in their
physical development. It is most important for the teacher to consider this range of
development when planning learning experiences that:
A. involve extensive interactions with peer partners
B. require a high degree of coordination
C. involve frequent transitions between tasks
D. require extended periods of quiet work - B
A sixth-grade teacher is planning a lesson to introduce a new science concept to a class
that includes English language learners with varying levels of English language
proficiency. The teacher can best help ensure that the lesson will be responsive to the
needs of the English language learners by including which of the following steps in the
planning process?
A. indentifying ways for students to sue various hands-on materials and activities to
reinforce and apply the targeted concept
B. developing several written practice exercises that reinforce the targeted concept for
the English language learners to complete for homework
C. reviewing content covered in fourth-grade and fifth-grade science textbooks that is
relevant to the targeted concept
D. asking the English language learners to identify strategies they believe will be most
effective in helping them learn the targeted concept - A
Which of the following student assignments is likely to be most effective in helping a
middle school teacher learn about the values and beliefs of students' diverse cultures?
A. providing various materials for students to use to construct a collage about their
family
B. having students interview an adult family member about his or her life as a child and
stories he or she remembers from childhoo
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