Exam 10: Organization and Study Skills: Strategies and Techniques

The FIRST-Letter Mnemonic Strategy prompts students to use a variety of tactics to recall lists of information. Use these steps to build a mnemonic for the following list: Countries of North Africa include Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya. Name which tactic you used.

In the chapter, three note-taking approaches are described. Describe how these three approaches are alike and different. Which of these three approaches would you use in your own classroom and explain why?

As a classroom teacher, what should you do to ensure a fair testing situation for students with mild disabilities?

In the general education classroom, the majority of test questions are taken directly from:

For the chapter or unit test, require candidates to apply the Test Taking Strategy - PIRATES. Specifically, award points if the candidate provides evidence that he or she completed the P step - Prepare to succeed, the I step - Inspect Instructions, the R step - Read, Remember, and Reduce, the A step - Answer or Abandon, the T step - Turn Back, and the S step - Survey. DO NOT require candidates to apply the E step - Estimate. That is, they should not be forced to guess. However, if they do not know an answer, they may use this step if it helps!

When a teacher uses gestures to signal important content during a lecture, that teacher is using:

When explaining barriers to homework completion, Kohn (2006) indicated that some parents might not have the ____________________skills necessary to help their child with homework.