Assignment:
Classroom management: creating productive learning environments
1. Which of the following best describes a productive learning environment?
a. A classroom environment in which learners understand and obey well-established rules.
b. A classroom environment that involves collaboration and cooperation between the teacher and students.
c. A classroom environment that involves order and well-established routines.
d. A classroom environment that is orderly and focuses on learning.
2. Three of the following statements are reasons why effective classroom management is so important. Which one is not a reason?
a. Public and professional concerns about classroom management
b. Policymakers' concerns about the achievement of minority students
c. The complexities of classroom life
d. The influence of orderly classrooms on learning and motivation
3. Of the following, which is typically beginning teachers' greatest concern?
a. Their knowledge of the content they teach
b. Their skills, such as questioning
c. Their ability to manage their classrooms
d. Their repertoire of teaching strategies
4. Which of the following is not an outcome of effective management?
a. Greater obedience and conformity
b. Increased achievement
c. Decreased disruptive behaviors
d. Improved motivation
5. The description: "Actions teachers take to create an environment that supports and facilitates both academic and social-emotional learning," best describes:
a. classroom discipline.
b. classroom management.
c. teacher organization.
d. teacher withitness.
6. Based on research examining classroom management, which of the following is the best advice for beginning teachers with respect to classroom management?
a. Try to prevent management problems before they occur.
b. Develop a series of techniques that will stop misbehavior immediately.
c. Show students you really care about them.
d. Structure lessons so that students are required to actively participate.
7. Of the following, which best describes the relationship between learning, motivation, and well-managed classrooms compared to classrooms where students are less orderly?
a. Students learn more and are more motivated to learn in well-managed classrooms.
b. Students learn more in well-managed classrooms, but their motivation is slightly decreased.
c. Students' motivation is increased in well-managed classrooms, but they learn slightly less.
d. Low-achieving students learn more in well-managed classrooms, but high-achieving students learn slightly less.
8. Teachers' responses to the misbehavior of students best describes:
a. classroom management.
b. classroom discipline.
c. behavioral approaches to management.
d. teacher organization.
9. A classroom environment in which learners feel physically and emotionally safe and they feel personally connected to their teacher and peers is:
a. a productive learning environment.
b. a well-disciplined classroom.
c. a classroom with well-established routines.
d. a positive classroom climate
10. Jan Amos strongly emphasizes the need for her students to feel emotionally safe enough to offer their ideas and say what they think without fear of ridicule or embarrassment. She has a rule requiring that students treat each other with courtesy and respect, and she explains why it is important. Of the following Jan is most nearly attempting to:
a. develop well-disciplined students.
b. create a system of automatic rules and procedures.
c. create a positive classroom climate.
d. develop learners' self-concepts and self-esteem.
11. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between classroom management and the development of learner responsibility?
a. Development of learner responsibility is an important goal for well-managed classrooms.
b. Development of learner responsibility is possible with high achievers but not with low achievers.
c. Development of learner responsibility is part of classroom discipline but not classroom management.
d. Development of learner responsibility is not related to classroom management.
12. Wanda Fisher wants her students to understand that they don't call their classmates nasty names, for example, because they recognize that name calling hurts other people's feelings. Of the following, which is Wanda most nearly attempting to develop?
a. A withit learning community
b. Time available for learning
c. Learner responsibility
d. Well-disciplined students
13. Of the following, which most nearly describes how learner responsibility can be developed?
a. Create an orderly classroom with rules and procedures that make sense to students.
b. Create an orderly classroom by consistently enforcing rules.
c. Create an orderly classroom by using reinforcers rather than punishers.
d. Create an orderly classroom by meeting each student's personal needs.
14. The amount of time a teacher or school designates for a topic or subject matter area is called:
a. allocated time.
b. instructional time.
c. engaged time.
d. academic learning time.
15. The amount of time left after routine management and administrative tasks are completed is called:
a. allocated time.
b. instructional time.
c. engaged time.
d. academic learning time.
16. Students in your class appear to have difficulty in understanding the concept of probability. An increase in which of the following will most increase student achievement?
a. Engaged time
b. Instructional time
c. Allocated time
d. Class time
17. The amount of time students are engaged and successful is called:
a. allocated time.
b. instructional time.
c. engaged time.
d. academic learning time.
18. Consider the concept academic learning time. Of the following, the one most closely related to the concept is:
a. success.
b. structure.
c. specific praise.
d. skills.Of the following, the one most closely related to "engaged time" is:eacher organization.
b. student attentiveness.
c. student success.
d. teacher expectations.
20. Sally Harvey, an eighth-grade math teacher, typically spends about 7 minutes after the bell rings taking roll, handing out papers, and writing assignments on the board. Karen Walters, who teaches in the room next to Sally, writes her assignments on the board during the time the students are moving from one class to another. Based on this information, which of the following conclusions is most valid?
a. Sally's allocated time is greater than Karen's.
b. Sally's engaged time will be greater than Karen's.
c. Karen's allocated time is greater than Sally's.
d. Karen's instructional time will be greater than Sally's.
BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER
1. Which of the following is the best definition of effective teaching?
a. Teaching that involves students in cooperative learning
b. Teaching that increases students' self esteem
c. Teaching that provides students with enjoyable learning experiences
d. Teaching that maximizes learning for all students
2. Which of the following is the best description of motivation?
a. The process of meeting personal needs
b. The energizing force behind student learning
c. Being reinforced for desirable behavior
d. The process of making learning fun
3. Of the following, extrinsic motivation is best described as:
a. motivation to complete a activity that meets a need for safety.
b. motivation to complete a task to receive some incentive.
c. motivation to complete a task because it enhances self-efficacy.
d. motivation to complete an activity because it results in a feeling of competence.
4. Which of the following is the best description of intrinsic motivation?
a. Motivation to complete a task as a means to an end
b. Motivation to complete a task to meet a need for intellectual achievement
c. Motivation to engage in an activity for its own sake
d. Motivation to complete a task to meet the need for relatedness
5. Which of the following is not true of motivated students?
a. They tend to have higher grades.
b. They learn content almost effortlessly.
c. They have more positive attitudes toward school.
d. They persist on difficult tasks.
6. David Moore starts each of his lessons with a demonstration, such as dropping two objects of unequal weight and seeing them fall with the same rate of acceleration. Which of the following best describes Mr. Moore's attempts?
a. He is trying to begin his lessons with an attention-getting activity.
b. He is trying to capitalize on learners' intrinsic needs for intellectual achievement.
c. He is trying to promote students' extrinsic need for a learning incentive.
d. He is trying to capitalize on learners' intrinsic needs for control and self-determination.
8. Of the following, what is the best description of learning objectives?
a. Statements that describe the activities teachers design to promote deep understanding of a particular topic
b. Statements that describe the techniques teachers use to help students learn specific knowledge or skills
c. Statements that specify what students should know or be able to do with respect to a topic
d. Statements that specify the strategies that teachers will use to promote students' interest in a topic
9. Other than selecting topics, all of teachers' planning decisions are guided by:
a. creating assessments.
b. identifying students' interests.
c. selecting learning objectives.
d. preparing learning activities.
10. Which of the following is most important when teachers prepare and organize learning activities?
a. Finding or creating high-quality examples and problems
b. Designing effective cooperative learning activities
c. Creating effective assessments
d. Ensuring that objectives are written according to Mager's or Gronlund's formats
11. Which of the following is the best definition of a high-quality example?
a. An example that is concrete and which captures students' attention
b. An example that is likely to increase students' intrinsic motivation to learn
c. An example that will require students to process information in one of the higher cells of the taxonomy table
d. An example that has all the information in it that students need to understand a topic
12. A teacher wants her first graders to understand the concept mammal. Which of the following is the best case of a high-quality example?
a. One of the students' hamsters
b. A picture of a cat and some kittens
c. A description on an overhead saying that mammals are warm blooded, nurse their young, and have hair
d. A description on an overhead saying that mammals are warm blooded, nurse their young, and have hair together with a picture of a dog
13. Of the following, which is the best definition of assessment?
a. The process of creating tests and quizzes to determine how much information students have acquired in learning activities.
b. The process teachers use to gather information and make decisions about students' learning progress
c. The process of using effective rubrics when observing young children perform basic skills such as forming letters
d. The process of writing end-of-term tests and assigning grades based on students' performance on those tests
14. Which of the following are questions addressed by effective assessments?
1. How will I know if students have reached my learning objectives?
2. How will I decide if a topic is important to teach?
3. How will I match my instruction to state standards?
4. How can I use assessment information to increase my students' learning?
a. 1, 2, 3, 4 b. 1, 4 c. 1, 2, 3 d. 3
15. Which of the following statements best describes instructional alignment?
a. Teachers' beliefs about their abilities to instruct students in such a way that all students, regardless of ability, will learn as much as possible
b. The consistency between teachers' objectives, learning activities, practice they provide for students, and assessment
c. Teachers' willingness to invest their time and effort to be sure that all students learn as much as possible
d. Teachers' behaviors that cause students to behave in ways that mirror the teachers' behaviors
16. When teachers' lessons are out of alignment, which of the following is the most likely reason?
a. Their thinking about their learning objectives isn't clear.
b. They are low in personal teaching efficacy.
c. They are unprofessional.
d. They lack essential teaching skills, such as the ability to guide students with questioning.
20. Which of the following best describes essential teaching skills?
a. The skills that veteran teachers acquire after approximately three years of teaching experience
b. The skills that teachers who complete traditional teacher preparation programs acquire, but that people who complete alternative licensure programs do not.
c. The abilities that teachers acquire from their university courses, which are then more fully developed by their experiences in classrooms
d. The abilities that all teachers, including those in their first year of teaching, should have in order to help students learn
21. When a teacher believes he or she can positively affect student learning, that teacher is said to possess:
a. effective attitudes.
b. teaching efficacy.
c. empathetic effectiveness.
d. proactive attitudes.
22. Mandy Jackson was reflecting on the problem of Francisco. He was in her third period English class, and he was failing. She had tried gentle reminders to him to complete his work and made sure she recognized him when he did so; she had tried simplifying directions; she had tried counseling him; she had tried drawing him out in class and elaborating on his comments and questions. "So far, none of those has really worked for very long", she mused, "I know I can get him to learn. I wonder what I should try next. I think I'll call his parents and ask for their help." Which of the following statements best describes Mandy's behavior in the episode you just read?
a. She has demonstrated high teaching efficacy.
b. She has demonstrated modeling and vicarious learning.
c. She has demonstrated effective organizational skills.
d. She has demonstrated a commitment to ethnic diversity.
23. Research indicates that teachers treat students for whom they have high expectations differently than those for whom they have low expectations. In which of the following areas do these differences exist?
1. Questioning: Teachers tend to call on perceived low achievers more often, because lower achievers are less likely to volunteer responses on their own.
2. Teacher effort: Teachers give perceived high achievers more thorough explanations, their instruction is more enthusiastic, and they require more complete and accurate student answers than they do from perceived low achievers.
3. Feedback: Teachers praise perceived high achievers more and criticize them less. They also offer perceived high achievers more complete and lengthier feedback.
4. Emotional support: Teachers interact more with perceived high achievers, make more eye contact, stand closer, and orient their bodies more directly toward these students, because low achievers are less confident than are their higher achieving peers.
a. 1, 2, 3, 4 b. 1, 3 c. 2, 4 d. 1
24. Rick Reynolds calls on all his students as equally as possible. Of the following, he practice most closely which essential teaching skill?
a. Teacher expectations
b. Teacher modeling
c. Teacher caring
d. Teacher warmth and empathy
25. Roger is a world history teacher. He peppers his presentation with questions to the students in the class. If Roger's behavior is consistent with existing research, which of the following students is Roger most likely to call on?
a. Pete, a low achiever.
b. Jon, a passive student who rarely participates in class.
c. Burton, who tends to be disruptive.
d. Fritz, a high achieving student.
26. Tony Martin's students are convinced that he loves teaching English. Of the following, their belief is most likely related to:
a. Tony's personal teaching efficacy.
b. Tony's expectations.
c. Tony's modeling.
d. Tony's organization.