Exam 14: Meeting the Diverse Needs of Students

Students whose preferred learning style is psychological prefer to:

A student with a disability who struggles to build and maintain friendships, communicate and manage change is most likely to have:

Is the following statement True or False? 'Research has shown that identifying students' learning styles produces better achievement outcomes.'

Describe two strategies you could use to enhance your teaching of students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

A teacher who uses a critical pedagogy practice to directly address cultural bias and deconstruct societal stereotypes would:

In a meta-analysis of data from the United States, Barton (2004) found that a school factor that correlated with student achievements was:

According to Tomlinson (2001), the three major components of differentiated classrooms do not include:

Subban (2006) considers that a conceptual framework for differential instruction can be directly linked to the Sociocultural Theory of Learning developed by:

You find that the class to which you have been allocated for a five-week placement comprises twenty boys and only eight girls. Four of the boys and three of the girls have only recently arrived in Australia and have some limitations with their spoken and written English. On your introductory visits to the classroom prior to beginning the placement you notice that the English speaking boys take up a great deal of the teacher's attention and some girls seem disinterested in lessons. There is some teasing of the newly arrived students about being 'different'. With reference to what you have learnt about differentiating teaching to enhance the learning of boys and girls, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds, explain the strategies you would use in your teaching to address these inequalities.

Which of the following statements would not show that a teacher has a high level of awareness of diverse student needs?

According to the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS, 2013), in 2011-2012 the number of notifications of suspected child abuse and neglect made to state and territory authorities in Australia was:

Research has found that the brain inputs information through the senses so teachers need to:

A characteristic that is not normally an indication of giftedness is:

Studies of the gender differences in the brain have found that:

A recently graduated teacher reaches the mid-point of the first year of teaching and realises that up until that point the teaching used has mainly been whole-class instruction. Explain why this should be of concern to the teacher and provide a detailed description of five steps that the teacher could take to gradually move towards a more differentiated classroom.

Applying Gardner's (1983) theory of model intelligences, a teacher who takes students outside to hop around a basketball court and then measure the distance they were able to hop is encouraging students to use:

Why would many teachers find it difficult to cater for students' diverse needs and abilities by preparing separate activities for each student in the class?

'In this process of personalising learning (Keamy & Nicholas, 2007) teachers must ... each student's unique interests, experiences and abilities, needs and backgrounds' (NSW Department of Education and Training, 2008). The words missing from this statement are:

An ideal differentiated classroom does not have:

Using reading materials at different levels based upon student readiness is a strategy for differentiating: