EDUCATING ALL STUDENTS EAS TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔background knowledge - ✔✔what is already known
✔✔schema - ✔✔thoughts that students already have about a topic
✔✔Learner-centered teachers - ✔✔shift the teacher's role from being a provider of
information to being a facilitator of learnign
✔✔Why is learner-centered teaching important? - ✔✔1. You increase each student's
motivation to remain engaged in the learning process
2. learner-centered teaching fosters independence
3. it allows for individual differences in student learning styles
4. social engagement is greatly increased.
✔✔Characteristics of learner-centered teachers are - ✔✔1. engages students in the
preview, review, and evaluation of work.
2. explicitly teaches skills.
3. gets students to think about how they learn
4. allows students control over their own learning process
5. encourages collaboration
✔✔collaborative learning environment - ✔✔students know their own and each other's
strengths and struggles.
✔✔Diversity in the classroom - ✔✔cultural diversity, but also diversity in skills,
knowledge, and needs
✔✔Who should you consult with if you are struggling to meet a certain student's needs?
- ✔✔A specialist in the area the student is struggling
✔✔How van you learn about your students' cultural backgrounds? - ✔✔Talk to the
student's parents and families
✔✔self-esteem - ✔✔self-worth; how someone feels about themselves
✔✔role-model - ✔✔a person who serves as an example that others should imitate
✔✔behavior expectations - ✔✔how the teacher wants the students to act in class
✔✔How can teachers be good role-models to promote positive interactions among
students? - ✔✔show respect to students
, ✔✔What should teachers establish that lets students know how they're expected to act?
- ✔✔behavior expectations
✔✔ Behaviorism - ✔✔people's actions are driven by a need to gain rewards or avoid
punishments.
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔meant to increase a good behavior; a reward
✔✔Punishment - ✔✔meant to decrease bad behavior
✔✔Positive reinforcement - ✔✔involves giving someone something that he or she
wants
✔✔Negative reinforcement - ✔✔taking away something that someone does not want
✔✔Positive punishment - ✔✔involves giving someone something that he or she does
not want
✔✔Negative punishment - ✔✔involves taking away something that someone does want
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔decreases the chances of a response to something by withdrawing
reinforcement of the behavior; like a reset button
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔a philosophy of education that says that people construct
knowledge through their experiences and interactions with the world
✔✔Social learning - ✔✔learning through interactions with other people
✔✔Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development - ✔✔people learn best from other people
who are just a little ahead of them
✔✔Project-based learning (PBL) - ✔✔focuses on giving an open-ended question and
complex problem to a group of students and having them figure out the best solution to
the problem
✔✔4 Steps to PBL - ✔✔1. Learners are presented with a problem; 2. group develop
theories to explain the problem; 3. Learners work independently to come up with
solutions; 4. Regroup to compare solutions and develop a plan.
✔✔Critical Theory - ✔✔a philosophy that involves being critical of the prevailing view of
society
✔✔Critical theory in education - ✔✔is about questioning how our educational system
can best offer education to all people
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔background knowledge - ✔✔what is already known
✔✔schema - ✔✔thoughts that students already have about a topic
✔✔Learner-centered teachers - ✔✔shift the teacher's role from being a provider of
information to being a facilitator of learnign
✔✔Why is learner-centered teaching important? - ✔✔1. You increase each student's
motivation to remain engaged in the learning process
2. learner-centered teaching fosters independence
3. it allows for individual differences in student learning styles
4. social engagement is greatly increased.
✔✔Characteristics of learner-centered teachers are - ✔✔1. engages students in the
preview, review, and evaluation of work.
2. explicitly teaches skills.
3. gets students to think about how they learn
4. allows students control over their own learning process
5. encourages collaboration
✔✔collaborative learning environment - ✔✔students know their own and each other's
strengths and struggles.
✔✔Diversity in the classroom - ✔✔cultural diversity, but also diversity in skills,
knowledge, and needs
✔✔Who should you consult with if you are struggling to meet a certain student's needs?
- ✔✔A specialist in the area the student is struggling
✔✔How van you learn about your students' cultural backgrounds? - ✔✔Talk to the
student's parents and families
✔✔self-esteem - ✔✔self-worth; how someone feels about themselves
✔✔role-model - ✔✔a person who serves as an example that others should imitate
✔✔behavior expectations - ✔✔how the teacher wants the students to act in class
✔✔How can teachers be good role-models to promote positive interactions among
students? - ✔✔show respect to students
, ✔✔What should teachers establish that lets students know how they're expected to act?
- ✔✔behavior expectations
✔✔ Behaviorism - ✔✔people's actions are driven by a need to gain rewards or avoid
punishments.
✔✔Reinforcement - ✔✔meant to increase a good behavior; a reward
✔✔Punishment - ✔✔meant to decrease bad behavior
✔✔Positive reinforcement - ✔✔involves giving someone something that he or she
wants
✔✔Negative reinforcement - ✔✔taking away something that someone does not want
✔✔Positive punishment - ✔✔involves giving someone something that he or she does
not want
✔✔Negative punishment - ✔✔involves taking away something that someone does want
✔✔Extinction - ✔✔decreases the chances of a response to something by withdrawing
reinforcement of the behavior; like a reset button
✔✔Constructivism - ✔✔a philosophy of education that says that people construct
knowledge through their experiences and interactions with the world
✔✔Social learning - ✔✔learning through interactions with other people
✔✔Vyogtsky's Zone of Proximal Development - ✔✔people learn best from other people
who are just a little ahead of them
✔✔Project-based learning (PBL) - ✔✔focuses on giving an open-ended question and
complex problem to a group of students and having them figure out the best solution to
the problem
✔✔4 Steps to PBL - ✔✔1. Learners are presented with a problem; 2. group develop
theories to explain the problem; 3. Learners work independently to come up with
solutions; 4. Regroup to compare solutions and develop a plan.
✔✔Critical Theory - ✔✔a philosophy that involves being critical of the prevailing view of
society
✔✔Critical theory in education - ✔✔is about questioning how our educational system
can best offer education to all people
