Exam 10: Instructional Strategies

Pick a topic that you might effectively teach through a cooperative learning approach.Then, using guidelines presented in the textbook, describe how you will: a.form your cooperative groups; b.foster interdependence of group members; and, c.assess what students have learned.

Identify a grade level at which you might teach.Pick a topic you might teach at that grade level and explain how you might teach it through discovery learning.Incorporate two strategies that the textbook recommends for discovery learning.

Which one of the following objectives meets criteria described in the textbook?

Which of the following is most accurate regarding instructional objectives?

Which one of the following is unlikely to be effective instructional techniques for younger students?

When teachers ask questions in class, it does not typically:

In cooperative learning, you would be most likely to form all-male and all-female cooperative groups if your goal was to:

Which of the following best describes short-term instructional objectives?

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

When Ms.Krakowski teaches the process of long division, she describes the objective of the lesson and demonstrates the procedure on the chalkboard.Then she has students solve long-division problems at the chalkboard, where she can give them frequent guidance as they work.Later, after the students show some proficiency with long division, she has them work on additional problems at their desks.Ms.Krakowski's approach can best be classified as which of the following?

Which one of the following statements best summarizes the discussion in the textbook regarding planning, instruction, classroom environment, assessment, and student characteristics?

Which one of the following is necessary for ICT to be used as a means for differentiating instruction?

Ms.Belanger asks her students to translate MacBeth into popular English.Which level of Bloom's taxonomy is the demonstrating?

As a teacher, you want your students to pull together their knowledge and skills from a variety of different disciplines to solve real-world problems.Of the following choices, the best instructional approach to use for this purpose is:

Which one of the following is the best example of a discovery learning approach to instruction?

What is the most important consideration for in-class activities?

Research indicates that mastery learning approaches are superior to traditional instruction in several ways.Which one of the following conclusions should not be drawn on the basis of research on mastery learning?

Which one of the following illustrates a signal in expository instruction?

Homogeneous cooperative groups are sometimes recommended for students:

Three of the following are reasons why cooperative learning is successful.Which one is not a reason?