In-class discussions about group functioning (including social skills) are effective in helping students understand what is expected of them.

It’s the end of July, and Ms. Decatur, newly hired, is getting ready to start a job as a second-grade teacher at Martin Elementary School. She excitedly enters her classroom for the first time, thinking about all the different decisions she’ll need to make before school even gets started. It’s overwhelming, but she decides to simply start from the most logical point for establishing a well-managed classroom. Which one of the following activities would you expect to see her do first?

Ms. Lee has decided to use an incentive system to improve behavior in her fifth-grade class, which has become noisy, rowdy, and frequently off-task. Ms Lee tells her students that she will give each of them a card to keep at their desks and that each day that they do not yell, leave their seats without permission, or push and shove each other while entering the room, they will each earn 5 points. However, whenever they engage in one of these behaviors they will lose one point. Students who accumulate 15 points per week will be allowed to participate in special Friday activities, such as viewing a movie, a popcorn party, or free time activity. An advantage of Ms. Lee’s system is that

Which of the following examples reflects a statement that might be made by a student with a realistic perspective on the causes of good and poor performance?

It is the first week of school. Which activity(ies) would be appropriate to undertake?

Given what you have read in the syllabus, what do you think is the most important piece of what I am teaching you?

The community health nurse planning a health promotion fair would include client literature on nutrition. During the presentation, a participant asked” what percentage of calories on a daily basis should come from complex carbohydrate sources in order to meet the body’s energy requirement ” in the diet?

Under-planning (having too little for students to do in a given amount of time) is uncommon for beginning teachers, who tend to underestimate the time it will take for students to complete activities.

An important goal of an accountability system is to help students develop into independent learners, so a teacher should give them as much responsibility as possible.

The behavior most closely associated with lesson pacing is