Exam 10: Early and Middle Years of Schooling

To prepare appropriate curricula for students, teachers must be double-adapters. This means that:

The purpose of an Individualised Education Plan is to:

Teaching in the early and middle years involves constant learning for teachers.

Many students with special needs often progress slowly and in small steps. To avoid frustration, teachers should:

What is cultural capital?

Middle schooling has the following elements:

The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia supports educators to develop a curriculum that recognises and responds to diversity.

Outside of the first five years of life, adolescence is the only other time in one's life that the capacity and functioning of the brain undergo a major overhaul.

The school readiness approach is the basis of inclusive practices.

Teacher aides are assigned to one student in the classroom and are required to spend their time assisting that one student.

Teachers can adopt a negative attitude towards inclusion when they perceive the progress of some students to be slow.

To be responsive to diversity and difference early year's educators need to ensure both children and their families feel welcome in the classroom.

As students grow older and move from childhood to adolescence, the gap between those with and without special needs narrows academically, socially, physically and emotionally.

Resistance at school by students with special support needs is:

Teachers can develop a productive professional relationship with the teacher aide (TA) by:

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the shift from school readiness views to inclusion?

A new approach to middle schooling features which of the following six steps?

Why have early childhood services gained so much importance over the last 15 years? What areas of cognitive and social development are focussed on in early childhood programs? Discuss the school readiness theory in relation to inclusion, including issues and challenges of each.

One of the main challenges in middle school education is:

Students who fail to attain acceptable literacy and numeracy proficiency in their middle years of schooling find the transition to secondary school difficult.