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Miss Savage is a first-year teacher. She is extremely excited about setting up her classroom. She goes to the teacher supply store and buys many posters, charts, and displays for her walls. She also spends time making items that she puts up: a “welcome back to school” bulletin board, a calendar, and a place for daily assignments to be posted. She invites you in to view her room a few days before the students arrive; you notice that the walls are virtually covered in fun, engaging print and pictures. When she asks you what you think about her room you say,

According to Love and Logic, it does not mean anything if the teacher simply lets the students know that if they can’t solve the problem or choose not to…the teacher will do something. The teacher has to tell the students what he/she is exactly going to do.

Empathic response skills should be a teacher’s primary method of dealing with misbehavior.

Students’ cultural and experiential backgrounds, language skill levels, financial means, and other demographic characteristics are of little import in classroom management system design.

The development of a new species is called _______________.

Which is NOT TRUE of the Hydrologic Cycle?

Shanelle, one of your students, is loud and prone to leading the other students in minor misbehavior – chatting, dawdling, or passing notes. She’s like a rain cloud…whatever students she’s around are likely to be unhappy or engaged in some sort of conflict. By comparison, Eldon, another student in your class, seems “easy” to manage… he is extremely quiet and helpful and generally gets along well with people, although he does seem to do a fair amount of daydreaming and sometimes avoids his work. Sometimes you even forget he’s in your class. In terms of management concerns,

The behavior most closely associated with lesson pacing is

Mr. Washington allows his lesson times to “go with the flow;” that is, he simply begins teaching in the morning and lets each lesson last as long as it needs to last. He also varies the order of his content presentations, doing math first on some days and reading first on other days; he may allocate an hour to science on Monday, not teach it at all on Tuesday, and give it a half hour on Wednesday. His system is

These bacteria are found in the soil and combine oxygen with ammonia to form nitrates that are the form of nitrogen that green plants can absorb by their root cells as nutrients.