True or False. The Farrell Model’s main emphasis is on the text.
a. True
b. False
Some easy tips to start helping students become better listeners involve all but one of
the following:
A. Address communication needs of students that arise from real life situations
B. Be interdisciplinary and across the curriculum
C. Students listen to the way you speak to learn how to listen to people
D. Involve direct teaching of listening strategies and practice of those strategies in a
variety of listening situations
The Romantic Radicalism period
A. Empowered minority groups
B. Stressed rights and responsibilities
C. Reduced federal involvement
D. Limited home-schooling
The results of a map survey may be placed on a scope and sequence chart that shows
A. Grade levels
B. Specific detailed instructional objectives
C. References to standardized tests
D. Instructional strategies
In developmental education
a. Predetermined instructional objectives are essential
b. Activities are developed to cause mild frustration
c. Content challenge is not important
d. Teacher is seen as an adapter of curriculum
Which of the following is a stage for the objectives scope and sequence?
A. Elementary
B. Description stage
C. Analysis stage
D. Emphasis stage
True or False. A program goal does not contain specific content and behavior.
a. True
b. False
True or False. Top-down curriculum design is usually not standards-based.
a. True
b. False
True or False. Frequently only the written curriculum and learned curriculum are
evaluated.
a. True
b. False
In evaluating a matrix derived from a faculty survey on addressing curriculum goals,
which of the following is not an appropriate question?
A. Is each curriculum goal adequately addressed?
B. Are all curriculum goals addressed equally?
C. Are we avoiding unnecessary duplication?
D. Is each appropriately developed and reinforced from grade to grade?
Common Core Standards are designed to provide:
a. every student to be college and career ready
b. consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn
c. help to teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students
d. robust and relevant real world learning
True or False. The text suggests that technology in education should focus first on
desired outcomes and then design the framework to achieve this outcome.
a. True
b. False
The Way I See It was written by Temple Grandin. Its focus is:
a. How to ensure humane treatment of cattle
b. The importance of understanding student disabilities
c. How to work with children using RtI
d. Advocacy for children with autism
True or False: curriculum mapping should include both formative and summative
assessments.
a. True
b. False
Most high schools have the following tracks based on educational and career goals:
A. College preparatory, basic, and remedial
B. College preparatory, general, and remedial
C. College preparatory, general, and vocational/technical
D. Vocational/technical, basic, and academically gifted
A learning scenario contains
A. A prescribed number of lessons
B. A listing of national standards
C. Copies of articles, maps, and other materials
D. A scope and sequence
True or False. A way to help students become better listeners is for students to listen to
the way teachers speak.
a. True
b. False
True or False: The most important shaping factor in the curriculum process is
assessment methods.
a. true
b. false
True or False. Developing and using models falls under the science dimension of
scientific and engineering practices.
a. True
b. False
In developing reporting materials the text made four recommendations in terms of
reports that include:
A. Public access to ACT or SAT test results.
B. Report cards
C. Gap reports
D. Individual student reports
In thinking about the Committee of Ten and the Reorganization of Secondary Education
that produced the ‘seven cardinal principles” the most significant difference is
a. Committee of Ten included math; Reorganization did not
b. Committee of Ten was more vocationally oriented
c. Reorganization assumed high school was for everyone
d. Reorganization assumed elementary schools should add algebra
As part of developing curriculum and working to close the achievement gap, school
leaders need to demonstrate a unified belief in the families who reside within their
communities. Which of the following is not a way to help celebrate community
diversity?
A. Acknowledging names of students
B. Promoting home language
C. Posting historical Caucasian figures
D. Creating culturally responsive classrooms
Assessment and data analysis are now becoming major determiners of:
a. What is taught
b. How to develop social and emotional growth
c. When it is taught
d. How it is taught
The Curriculum of Practice for gifted learners is designed to do which of the following:
A. Guide students in understanding their own strengths, preferences, values, and
commitments
B. Follows the discipline of a given field
C. Makes connections across times, cultures, places, and disciplines
D. Guides understanding and application of facts, methodologies, and principles of a
discipline
The planning calendar should include which of the following?
A. Needs assessment
B. Task force appointments
C. School improvement plan
D. Staff development
True or False. A planning calendar extends from 7 to 10 years.
a. True
b. False
True or False. As technology in the classroom increases so does the need for curriculum
evaluation.
a. True
b. False
Within the technological model determining course parameters could include
A. Establishing objectives
B. Developing a scope and sequence for the course
C. Selecting appropriate instructional materials
D. Establishing a rationale for the course
According to Conrad Wesley Snyder empathy toward another person can be encouraged
by
A. Quality learning activities
B. Broad objectives
C. Learning scenarios
D. Technology
In Louisiana in 2005 the state came up with a “comprehensive curriculum” that
providing timing and sequence for each grade level expectation. Many school systems
considered this a mandate, yet when the state tests came in March, the results were not
good. Why?
When developing curriculum, it is wise to pay attention to ______________ context.
Correlation of curriculum is most essential in schools with a ______________
structure.
In 1996, President Clinton issued what he called his “Technology Literacy Challenge.”
The challenge had four aspects; what are they?
Schools must reflect the needs of __________ and offer _____________ curriculum
focused on performance across grade levels.
The text outlines a 16 step process in improving fields of study based on the work of
Snyder. Construct an essay in which you describe how you would use it if you were
assigned the task of examining and updating a curriculum area of your choice.
You have a tenured teacher with 15 years’ experience who has never developed skills in
using technology, even though there have been workshops conducted by the district.
The teacher wants to have a self-directed development plan centered on her taking an
instructional technology course at a local college. What would you do and why?
Construct an essay describing what pre-service teachers need to be successful.
Identify, in sequence, the four structural components in organizing the structure of a
course.
Describe the Fishbowl technique.
NCLB has been called “no test maker left behind” because most states have imposed
specific tests and scores needed to pass to a specific grade. We know curriculum
grouping may result in vastly different levels of academic rigor. At the secondary level,
current redesign efforts suggest a common core of courses for everyone, at least in the
first two years of high school. Given these facts, formulate an essay relating those facts
to what should be done in the schools.
__________ learnings are those that are basic but do not require structuring.
Discuss the four elements suggested for brain-based learning in gifted education.
Identify the three questions asked when refining the tentative list of unit objectives.
The educator who developed the “responsive model of curriculum was ____.