LEARNER
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy of
Needs? - Answer -Esteem Needs
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why? - 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? - 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? - Answer -In the Formal operations stage, thinking involves
abstractions.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into class? -
Answer -Engaging students in cooperative learning groups.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students? - 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? - 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. - Answer -Spatial
Intelligence, because graphic organizers allow students to learn from a visual image.
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory? - Answer -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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - Answer -Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and
aligning the learning to what they understand.
Who developed the theory of multiple intelligences? - 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? - 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? - 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? -
Answer -Chunking
Storytelling
Cooperative learning groups
Which is not an example of an element you could change in the classroom to
incorporate the naturalist intelligence? - Answer -Turning the lights off and working in
the dark.
Select the answer with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the correct order from most
basic needs on upward. - Answer -Physiological needs, safety needs, social needs,
esteem needs, self-actualization
How would you use your knowledge of a high school student's developmental stage to
appropriately plan a class lesson? - Answer -Allow opportunities for students to have
guided conversations to develop multiple points of view.
What is the main idea of self-actualization? - Answer -When individuals reach a state of
harmony and understanding.
What information would you use to support the use of feedback in the classroom? -
Answer -Students need immediate, specific, and habitual feedback to continue learning
based on previous efforts.