As so often happens during the early part of the school year, you receive a new student. Elisha comes into your room clinging to her mother’s hand. You greet her and talk quietly for a few moments while your students are working independently, but inside you’re thinking, “Oh, great. I just got to a place where my procedures are running pretty smoothly, and now I need to get Elisha up to speed with regard to what I expect.” Which would be the most effective way to do this?

You have a rule in your second-grade class that requires students to be in their seats and have their materials ready when the bell rings. On the second day of school, you notice that Marisol has not complied with your request. What do you do?

What are the 6 key thinking skills?

Why is the beginning of the year such a critical time with regard to classroom management?

Don’t fight changes but do seek to __________ them and help others do the same

In an independent t-test, we calculate a mean difference between the groups (group 1 –  group 2) and we use this to test against the null.  If the mean difference and 95% confidence intervals are 4.1 (95% CI -2.5 to 10.0), would you reject the null hypothesis?

Discuss one way you plan to keep parents apprised of their child’s academic progress. 

Imagine you are planning a study to determine if eating 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon daily lowers blood pressure.  You have decided to use a Paired T-Test and 20 subjects.  Ten subjects will eat 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon daily for two weeks and 10 will have their normal diets.  Blood pressure will be measured at the end of these two weeks.  Then the 10 on the cinnamon diet will go back to their regular diets and the 10 on the regular diets will switch to eating 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon daily.  These subjects will continue this for two week and again their blood pressures will be measured. This is called a cross-over trial.  In the end, each subject will have two measurements of blood pressure, one on regular diet and one on the cinnamon diet. What is the null hypothesis of this Paired T-Test?  (please state this using a complete sentence). 

Miss Albertson comes to you and says, “I keep hearing about cooperative learning and how it enhances students’ social skills as well as their attitudes. But what about learning? Before I commit to trying this strategy, I need to know what they’re going to get out of it academically.” What would you say in response?

Ordering your data and dividing the order into 5 equal groups is called creating: