Student-Centered Learning Environments Competency 2

Question 1

How organize the learning environment?

Answer 1

Physical environment: Define spaces

Time management: Efficient transitions.

Question 2

What are the benefits of efficient transitions?

Answer 2

Help teachers to minimize disruptions and behavior problems.
Increases instructional time.
Maintains optimal learning conditions.
Helps promote students independence.

Question 3

T or F: There is a negative relationship between student and classroom arrangements.

Answer 3

F: There is a positive relationship between student behavior and classroom arrangement. So, if the teacher is focusing on student behavior, the professional should pay special attention to classroom organization.

Question 4

What does “wait time” means in relation to transitions?

Answer 4

“Wait time” refers to allowing students the needed time to transition from one learning activity to the next or from one place in the learning environment to another.

Question 5

Managing behavior:

Answer 5

Prevention

Intervention

Question 6

Prevention:

Answer 6

Create a structured environment: Rules, routines, well-established schedules.
Monitor students behavior: checking children’s progress over time.
Documents progress: written records.

Question 7

Intervention:

Answer 7

Develop social skills: identify the social skills needed to replace the problematic behavior.
Provide training for anger management: recognize the triggers that ignite their anger…

Question 8

Behavioral theorists:

Answer 8

Ivan Pavlov: classical conditional
E.L. Thorndike: Law of effect. Behaviors resulting in favorable consequences are likely to be repeated.
B.F. Skinner: Operant conditioning: behavior which is reinforced is more likely to be repeated.

Question 9

Key terms and principles applied to B.F. Skinner:

Answer 9

Reinforcers: praise or removal of an undesirable stimulus.
Premack principle: pairs undesirable behaviors with desirable acts. Example: Go outside to play after cleaning the toys.
Punishers
Shaping:teach target behaviors by reforming successive approximations of the behaviors in questions.
Extinction:

Question 10

Social learning theorist:

Answer 10

Bandura and Meichenbaum: Believe the learning occurs without direct consequences to one’s actions.

Question 11

In Applied Behavior Analysis there are two types of reinforcement and punishment: Positive and negative:

Answer 11

Positive reinforcement is presenting a motivation/reinforcing stimulus to the person after the desired behavior is exhibited. EX: A teacher gives her student praise for doing homework.

Question 12

In Applied Behavior Analysis there are two types of reinforcement and punishment: Positive and negative:

Answer 12

Negative reinforcement occurs when a certain stimulus is removed after a particular behavior is exhibited.

Question 13

T or F: Behavioral models are not connected to classroom management.

Answer 13

F: Research clearly shows that behavior exhibited by students is related to the classroom management.

Question 14

How would you describe the difference between prevention and intervention?

Answer 14

Preventions is creating strategies to help students avoid certain negative behaviors and intervention is monitoring and addressing behavioral needs after they occur.

Question 15

Fostering support for all:

Answer 15

Safe learning environments
Accommodations vs. Modifications
Assistive technology
Technology

Question 16

Accommodations vs. Modifications

Answer 16

Accommodations are instructional or test adaptation. Timing, Presentation of material, setting, response.
Modification: is changing the target skill or the construct of the learning occurring.The curriculum is fundamentally changed.

Question 17

Assistive technology included:

Answer 17

Blindness or low vision: talking word processor, Braille output, large-print materials..
Hearing loss or deafness: certified sing language..
Cognitive and developmental disabilities: telephone..
Learning disabilities or deficit disorders: reading temple.
Psychiatric disabilities: reduce noise and distractions.

Question 18

Technology included:

Answer 18

Assistive technology: software, equipment
Child protection software
Computer-aided instructions
Cyber-bullying
Datebase
Intelectual property: Copyright material.
Spreadsheet: organizes informations into rows and columns.
Virus
Virus protection software.

Question 19

How would you describe the difference between an accommodation and a modification?

Answer 19

Accommodation is changing how the student learn; a modification is changing what the student learn.

Question 20

Ways of communicating?

Answer 20

gestures, verbal skills, body language, and written word.

Question 21

What are benefits of using technology in communication?

Answer 21

Provides alternatives to tradicional communication, facilitares instant and continuos feedback on learning .

Question 22

The four basic steps the are used in reciprocal teaching are:

Answer 22

Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing. (A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text.)

Question 23

How would you describe classroom presence?

Answer 23

Is the sense or culture crating by the teacher determined by how, when and why the teacher communicates.

Question 24

T or F: Language boy is not connected to successful communication.

Answer 24

F: Body language is one form of non-verbal communication.

Question 25

Which of the following statements from a teacher would be considered classroom management through the use of negative reinforcement? (B.F. Skinner’s theory).

Answer 25

“If you star turning in your homework, I wouldn’t have to call your mother every afternoon”

Question 26

In order to practice effective behavior management, classroom rules..

Answer 26

Should be follow by students and be consistently enforced.