Week Eleven: Social Development - 2

Question 1

What is value-add teaching?

Answer 1

That a effective teacher-student relationship correlates to student achievement

Question 2

What is attachment theory?

Answer 2

Secure base (teacher) needed before children
can fully explore the school
environment and engage in leaning
activities.

More important for younger children than for older children, for girls than for boys.

Question 3

What is self-determination theory?

Answer 3

Motivation to learn requires that
needs for relatedness, competence
and autonomy met.

TRS more important for at-risk students (boys, low-SES, LD, ethnic minority students).

Question 4

What is the identification-participation model?

Answer 4

Students who feel like they are a part of a school community are
more likely to value school, commit to school, and actively participate; whereas students who do not feel a minimal sense of belonging are more
likely to disengage and are more likely to drop-out

Question 5

What is goodness-of-fit?

Answer 5

the notion that a fundamental
aspect of interactions between
children and adults is the degree
of ‘compatibility’ between the
capacities, motivations, and style
of behaving of a child and the
expectations and demands of an
adult

Question 6

What does a pathognomonic teacher believe?

Answer 6

that learning problems exists in the
student; so no preferential treatment should be given and it should be the problem of a specialist

Question 7

What does an interventionist teacher believe?

Answer 7

learning problems result from the non-optimal interaction between the students and the school environment; so teachers should try to intervene before referral, assess to know what to d better