EDU 330 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
zone of proximal development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Vygotsky)- the range of skills
that are a little bit more difficult than what a student can do independently
How does teacher guidance fit in the zone of proximal development? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- *scaffolding- changing level of support to meet ability of child, guided
instruction, guided participation from students (act as apprentices), "thinking aloud",
collaboration, "what a child can do with help today, he can do alone tomorrow"
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (B.F. Skinner)- rewards and consequences, focuses
on observable measure of behavior, sequential order, operant conditioning
how is behaviorism teacher directed and explicit instruction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
good behavior is reinforced, direct explicit instruction, ex: wow I love how Jesse is standing
with his hands to his side, and voice turned off
Schema - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Piaget)- things a child already knows "file cabinet"
(background knowledge)
Piagets model for learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- kids construct their own knowledge
and the teacher sets up the environment, actively engaged learners, ex: child goes to zoo and
thinks zebra is a horse with stripes
what is a phoneme? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- smallest unit of sound
How many phonemes are in the English language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 44
bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a morpheme that must be attached to a free
morpheme ex: -s, -ed
free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a morpheme that can stand alone as a word ex:
pancake, dog, play
, pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- deals with the social aspects of language use
why is appropriate "social" language important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- knowing your
audience, different culture and ethnicities, appropriate social language is standard English
examples of syntactic system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- grammar, capitalization, word
order ex: I have dress green
Many theories have been used to describe the process in which a person learns to read and
write. The theory that contrasts the active role of the teacher with the passive role of the
students is: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- behaviorism
Piaget described learning as the modification of children's cognitive structures, or: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- schemas
Third grade teacher Gloria Brady plans activities so that her students can learn by
collaboration. She encourages her students to expand their understanding by relating new
experiences to their background knowledge. This teacher follows the theory of: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- constructivism
Which language cueing system requires an understanding of grammar? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- syntactic
For students whose home language is nonstandard English, the goal of language instruction at
school is to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- add standard English to their repertoire of
language registers.
The primary reason why phonics instruction alone does not constitute a complete reading
program is that - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- good readers do more than decode words as
they read.
Ownership" of a classroom community is ideally: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- shared with
the students, although ultimate responsibility remains with the teacher.
CORRECT Answers
zone of proximal development - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Vygotsky)- the range of skills
that are a little bit more difficult than what a student can do independently
How does teacher guidance fit in the zone of proximal development? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- *scaffolding- changing level of support to meet ability of child, guided
instruction, guided participation from students (act as apprentices), "thinking aloud",
collaboration, "what a child can do with help today, he can do alone tomorrow"
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (B.F. Skinner)- rewards and consequences, focuses
on observable measure of behavior, sequential order, operant conditioning
how is behaviorism teacher directed and explicit instruction? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
good behavior is reinforced, direct explicit instruction, ex: wow I love how Jesse is standing
with his hands to his side, and voice turned off
Schema - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- (Piaget)- things a child already knows "file cabinet"
(background knowledge)
Piagets model for learning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- kids construct their own knowledge
and the teacher sets up the environment, actively engaged learners, ex: child goes to zoo and
thinks zebra is a horse with stripes
what is a phoneme? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- smallest unit of sound
How many phonemes are in the English language? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 44
bound morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a morpheme that must be attached to a free
morpheme ex: -s, -ed
free morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a morpheme that can stand alone as a word ex:
pancake, dog, play
, pragmatics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- deals with the social aspects of language use
why is appropriate "social" language important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- knowing your
audience, different culture and ethnicities, appropriate social language is standard English
examples of syntactic system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- grammar, capitalization, word
order ex: I have dress green
Many theories have been used to describe the process in which a person learns to read and
write. The theory that contrasts the active role of the teacher with the passive role of the
students is: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- behaviorism
Piaget described learning as the modification of children's cognitive structures, or: -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- schemas
Third grade teacher Gloria Brady plans activities so that her students can learn by
collaboration. She encourages her students to expand their understanding by relating new
experiences to their background knowledge. This teacher follows the theory of: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- constructivism
Which language cueing system requires an understanding of grammar? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- syntactic
For students whose home language is nonstandard English, the goal of language instruction at
school is to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- add standard English to their repertoire of
language registers.
The primary reason why phonics instruction alone does not constitute a complete reading
program is that - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- good readers do more than decode words as
they read.
Ownership" of a classroom community is ideally: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- shared with
the students, although ultimate responsibility remains with the teacher.
