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You are very excited that you have been assigned to do your student teaching internship with your favorite elementary school teacher, Mr. Cano. In addition to preparing your regular lesson plans, he has asked you to create a strategy to ensure that all students (including those with learning disabilities and ADHD) have a positive learning experience. What special considerations do you need to take into consideration to work with these students? |
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Your roommates are arguing about whose ideas are more appropriate for application to education, Gardner's or Sternberg's. Since you are taking a class in life-span development, they turn to you to determine whether Gardner's or Sternberg's theories and applications are more useful. What can you tell them? Be sure to provide a brief description of each theory, and its approach to intelligence. |
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Discuss the concept of cultural bias in intelligence testing, and identify why there seem to be differences between people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds identified by these tests. Integrate into your answer a thorough review of the issue of culture-fair tests. |
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One of the frightening statistics on exercise patterns of children in the United States is that many children ages 9 to 13 do not engage in any free-time physical activity. To make matters worse, budget restrictions are reducing or eliminating P.E. programs in public schools. Use your knowledge of physical development in middle and late childhood to design activities to encourage increased exercise and healthy living. What recommendations would you provide to parents and schools to improve health and wellness of elementary school children? |
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You are standing behind three elementary-age children in line at the grocery store. The kids are arguing about who has more money. The child in the green shirt says, "Look, I have 4 dimes. That is one more than you have, so I have the most money." The child in the blue shirt says, "But my money is bigger; I have three quarters, so I have the most money." The child in the red shirt replies, "The size of the money doesn't matter; the only thing that is important is how much it is worth." Apply Piaget's theory of cognitive development to analyze this interaction. In your analysis, be sure to identify each child's stage of development, as well as key cognitive milestones demonstrated by the interaction. |
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Your nephew is preparing to enter kindergarten, and your sister has been notified that she must choose whether she wants her son to be enrolled in the whole-language or the phonics reading programs. Unfortunately, your sister knows nothing about either of these approaches to reading instruction. What can you tell her about each of these instructional approaches? Using your knowledge of language and cognitive development in middle childhood, how would you advise your sister? Make sure to identify the positive and negative aspects to each program in your answer. |
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