TNT 700.2AS Comprehensive
Assessment: The Learner
How would you use your knowledge of a high school student's developmental stage to appropriately
plan a class lesson? - Allow opportunities for students to have guided conversations to develop
multiple points of view.
Based on what you know about Jean Piaget and his research into cognitive development, why is it so
important to strike a balance between challenging a child's perceptions and ensuring activities are
developmentally appropriate? - To be sure there is enough of a challenge to require adaptation
but not cause the child the disengage.
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The teacher asking students to
create a graphic organizer of their lesson. - Spatial Intelligence, because graphic organizers allow
students to learn from a visual image.
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why? - By providing opportunities
for children to experience success in their learning through the use of appropriately challenging work.
Which statement supports chunking an assignment for students? - Chunking allows learners to
take in information in digestible pieces.
How would you differentiate Piaget's formal operations stage from the concrete operational stage? -
In the Formal operations stage, thinking involves abstractions.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into class? - Engaging
students in cooperative learning groups.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students? - Allows students to believe that they
are capable of completing a task.
, Based on what you know about love and belonging needs of a person, what can you do as a teacher to
help fulfill these needs for your students? - Get to know your students, what they like and dislike
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory? - This theory is based on how there
are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a person's intelligence.
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a high school language
arts classroom? - Adolescents have increased emotional responses and allowing them to use
emotion helps them to remember things.
What distinction can be made between the cognitive and physical development of adolescents as it
affects learning? - Adolescents physical development creates stress in the learning environment
whereas the cognitive development creates an inability to reason.
How would you contrast the physiological needs of humans with love and belonging needs? -
Physiological needs are required for human survival and love and belonging needs are
psychological.
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? -
Esteem Needs
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent education? -
Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to what they
understand.
Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences? - Dr. Howard Gardner
What conclusion can you draw about a teacher's need for understanding brain development? -
Teachers must be aware of the parts of the brain that developmentally complete in order to
understand behaviors seen in classrooms.
Which learning strategies show your understanding of adolescent brain development? - Chunking
Storytelling
Assessment: The Learner
How would you use your knowledge of a high school student's developmental stage to appropriately
plan a class lesson? - Allow opportunities for students to have guided conversations to develop
multiple points of view.
Based on what you know about Jean Piaget and his research into cognitive development, why is it so
important to strike a balance between challenging a child's perceptions and ensuring activities are
developmentally appropriate? - To be sure there is enough of a challenge to require adaptation
but not cause the child the disengage.
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The teacher asking students to
create a graphic organizer of their lesson. - Spatial Intelligence, because graphic organizers allow
students to learn from a visual image.
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why? - By providing opportunities
for children to experience success in their learning through the use of appropriately challenging work.
Which statement supports chunking an assignment for students? - Chunking allows learners to
take in information in digestible pieces.
How would you differentiate Piaget's formal operations stage from the concrete operational stage? -
In the Formal operations stage, thinking involves abstractions.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into class? - Engaging
students in cooperative learning groups.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students? - Allows students to believe that they
are capable of completing a task.
, Based on what you know about love and belonging needs of a person, what can you do as a teacher to
help fulfill these needs for your students? - Get to know your students, what they like and dislike
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory? - This theory is based on how there
are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a person's intelligence.
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a high school language
arts classroom? - Adolescents have increased emotional responses and allowing them to use
emotion helps them to remember things.
What distinction can be made between the cognitive and physical development of adolescents as it
affects learning? - Adolescents physical development creates stress in the learning environment
whereas the cognitive development creates an inability to reason.
How would you contrast the physiological needs of humans with love and belonging needs? -
Physiological needs are required for human survival and love and belonging needs are
psychological.
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? -
Esteem Needs
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent education? -
Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to what they
understand.
Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences? - Dr. Howard Gardner
What conclusion can you draw about a teacher's need for understanding brain development? -
Teachers must be aware of the parts of the brain that developmentally complete in order to
understand behaviors seen in classrooms.
Which learning strategies show your understanding of adolescent brain development? - Chunking
Storytelling
