Exam 13: Creating a Productive Learning Environment

Challenging tasks are more likely than easy ones to promote students' learning and cognitive development.Yet students sometimes resist such challenges.Which one of the following strategies is consistent with the textbook's recommendation for how to incorporate challenging activities into the classroom curriculum?

Students are especially likely to misbehave during transitions from one activity to another.Which one of the following high school teachers is handling a transition in a recommended fashion?

Three of the following are accurate statements about typical group differences in students' classroom behavior.Which statement is not accurate?

Three of the following practices are associated with reduced violence in schools.Which one is not associated with reduced school violence?

As a teacher, you are apt to find that the parents of a few of your students will have little involvement in their children's education.Three of the following statements are accurate with regard to such parents.Which statement is not accurate?

One strategy for maintaining a productive classroom environment is to keep students productively engaged at all times.Three of the following practices reflect this strategy.Which one does not reflect this strategy?

As the textbook points out, we must consider cultural differences when we deal with inappropriate classroom behavior.More specifically, we should remember that:

Ms.Parisi, a fifth-grade teacher, wants all of her students to be able to see her easily. She has learned from one of her professional journals that the students nearest the teacher are more likely to pay attention and learn in class.So as she arranges her classroom at the beginning of the year, she puts her desk in the center of the room and puts the students' desks in three concentric circles around her.With the textbook's discussion about arranging the classroom in mind, identify the biggest problem with Ms.Parisi's arrangement.

Stanley pokes his pencil point in Sharon's arm.The teacher catches Stanley's eye and shakes her head, and he quickly puts his pencil back in his desk.The teacher's behavior is an example of:

Three of the following teacher behaviors are consistent with the textbook's suggestions for communicating caring and respect for students.Which one is not consistent with its suggestions?

From the textbook's perspective, which one of the following classroom management strategies is probably most important for students from diverse ethnic backgrounds?

Which one of the following best describes a sense of school community as educators define the term?

Three of the following students show warning signs of possible violent behavior. Which student does not?

Vygotsky's concept of scaffolding provides a strategy for structuring classroom activities.Which one of the following best describes scaffolding?

From a classroom management standpoint, which one of the following alternatives describes the most suitable physical arrangement of a classroom?

Intervention strategies for students at risk for aggression and violence are most effective when they:

Many students in Ms.Janklow's class seem to have little intrinsic motivation for learning math, science, or social studies.Their minds are more apt to be on peer relationships who the "popular kids" are, who bullies whom on the playground, etc.)than on their studies.Without knowing anything else about Ms.Janklow's students, your best guess would be that they are:

The textbook recommends that when a teacher talks with a student about a chronic pattern of misbehavior, he or she should do so in private rather than in front of classmates.Why?

Ms.Girardi, a sixth-grade teacher, is explaining an assignment.She notices two students passing notes to one another.While continuing to discuss the assignment, she moves toward the students and confiscates the written notes.Then she walks back to the front of the class, still continuing her explanation, and asks Mark, who is daydreaming, to answer a question.This scenario best illustrates which one of the following classroom management skills?

Three of the following strategies are recommended when teachers confer with a student's parents about a chronic behavior problem.Which one is not recommended?