Exam 8: Instructional Strategies

Mario is an 8-year-old third grader who lives in a largely Hispanic community in Arizona. Considering typical ethnic group differences and without knowing anything else about Mario,with which instructional approach would you expect him to feel most comfortable?

Drawing on the guidelines presented in the textbook,choose the topic below that would be most appropriate for a classroom discussion.

As an art teacher,Ms. Lerner conducts a task analysis of a unit in which students will learn to work with clay. In her analysis she considers information about the coil and throwing methods of pot making and about the effects of different types of clay and firing methods. Which type of task analysis is Ms. Lerner conducting?

Which one of the following best illustrates expository instruction?

A mastery learning approach to instruction would probably be most suitable for teaching:

Which one of the following is the best example of an advance organizer?

As a beginning teacher,you discover that your first class consists of students from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. Drawing on the discussion of teaching strategies in Chapter 8,describe at least four different instructional strategies that are likely to be effective in your class. For each strategy,present a rationale as to why it is apt to be effective for your diverse group of students.

You are giving a lecture on a topic you know is difficult for your students. Describe at least one specific strategy you can use to maximize the probability that: a. Your students will store the information in their working memories. b. The information you present doesn't exceed the limits of students' working memory capacities. c. Your students will organize the material effectively. d. Your students will elaborate on the things you talk about.

Which one of the following statements best captures the textbook's view about the value of the Internet in classroom instruction?

Three of the following are accurate statements about computer-based instruction. Which statement is false with regard to CBI?

Identify a particular topic that you may someday teach. Now: a. Write three instructional objectives for your topic,including at least one that addresses one or more complex cognitive processes. Be sure that your objectives are consistent with the guidelines presented in the textbook. b. Choose a suitable approach to instruction for each of your objectives. Justify your decisions.

As a teacher,you want your students to learn basic concepts in chemistry well enough that they can use them when studying more advanced topics. Of the following choices,the best instructional approach to use for this purpose is:

As teachers identify instructional goals and objectives,they won't necessarily want to describe each and every behavior they expect students to demonstrate. If they did so,they might generate a long list of relatively trivial behaviors. A reasonable alternative would be to:

The textbook distinguishes between teacher-directed and student-directed forms of instruction. Which one of the following best describes how teachers should view these two approaches?

Teachers should think of a lesson plan as:

Three of the following statements describe the benefits of cooperative learning activities. Which statement is least likely to be true about cooperative learning activities?

Which one of the following teaching strategies is the clearest example of how a teacher might scaffold complex cognitive processes in instruction?

Which one of the following instructional objectives is consistent with guidelines presented in the textbook?

Imagine that,as an educator,one of your long-term goals for students is that they acquire critical thinking skills: You want them to evaluate the soundness of logical arguments in persuasive essays,determine whether scientific research studies truly support certain conclusions,and so on. At a school board meeting,a father of one of your students complains about your emphasis on critical thinking. He insists that the purpose of education should be simply to teach students facts that experts have determined to be "true" in various academic disciplines. Of the following ways in which you might respond to the father,which one is most accurate and defensible?

Describe the nature of direct instruction,identifying at least five major components that are typically included. Then give a concrete example of how you might use direct instruction to teach a specific topic,being sure to illustrate all five of the components you listed.