TNT 700.2AS Comprehensive
Assessment: The Learner
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? - ✔✔ correct
answer Esteem Needs
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer Chunking allows
learners to take in information in digestible pieces.
How would you differentiate Piaget's formal operations stage from the concrete operational stage? - ✔✔
correct answer In the Formal operations stage, thinking involves abstractions.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into class? - ✔✔ correct
answer Engaging students in cooperative learning groups.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer Get to know your students, what they
like and dislike
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The teacher asking students to
create a graphic organizer of their lesson. - ✔✔ correct answer Spatial Intelligence, because graphic
organizers allow students to learn from a visual image.
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory? - ✔✔ correct answer This theory is based
on how there are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a person's intelligence.
, TNT 700.2AS Comprehensive
Assessment: The Learner
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a high school language
arts classroom? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔
correct answer Physiological needs are required for human survival and love and belonging needs are
psychological.
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent education? - ✔✔ correct
answer Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to what they
understand.
Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences? - ✔✔ correct answer Dr. Howard Gardner
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? - ✔✔ correct answer To be sure there is enough of a challenge to require
adaptation but not cause the child the disengage.
What conclusion can you draw about a teacher's need for understanding brain development? - ✔✔
correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct
answer Chunking
Storytelling
Cooperative learning groups
Assessment: The Learner
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? - ✔✔ correct
answer Esteem Needs
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer Chunking allows
learners to take in information in digestible pieces.
How would you differentiate Piaget's formal operations stage from the concrete operational stage? - ✔✔
correct answer In the Formal operations stage, thinking involves abstractions.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into class? - ✔✔ correct
answer Engaging students in cooperative learning groups.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer Get to know your students, what they
like and dislike
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The teacher asking students to
create a graphic organizer of their lesson. - ✔✔ correct answer Spatial Intelligence, because graphic
organizers allow students to learn from a visual image.
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory? - ✔✔ correct answer This theory is based
on how there are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a person's intelligence.
, TNT 700.2AS Comprehensive
Assessment: The Learner
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a high school language
arts classroom? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct answer 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? - ✔✔
correct answer Physiological needs are required for human survival and love and belonging needs are
psychological.
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent education? - ✔✔ correct
answer Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to what they
understand.
Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences? - ✔✔ correct answer Dr. Howard Gardner
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? - ✔✔ correct answer To be sure there is enough of a challenge to require
adaptation but not cause the child the disengage.
What conclusion can you draw about a teacher's need for understanding brain development? - ✔✔
correct answer 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? - ✔✔ correct
answer Chunking
Storytelling
Cooperative learning groups
