Which one of the following teacher behaviors is most likely to promote students' social development?
a. Ms. Grice allows her fourth graders to fight with the class bully so that he will learn from their negative feedback.
b. Mr. Freeman takes his sixth-grade class to see a violent film and then stresses the importance of not engaging in such violence.
c. Ms. Little isolates those students who can't get along with others so that they don't promote discord in the classroom.
d. Mr. Tutwiler describes the prosocial behaviors he expects of his students and gives concrete examples of such behaviors.
Question 2
Which one of the following examples best illustrates a student who has had training in peer mediation?
a. At the request of his teacher, Saul makes a check mark on an index card every time Robert speaks out in class without permission. At the end of each hour, Saul tells Robert how many check marks he has made.
b. Melinda and Forrest work together on their math homework, thinking carefully about how to do each problem and then taking it one step at a time.
c. LaVonda and Sally take turns reading excerpts from their textbook; they occasionally stop to reflect on how the new information relates to what they have previously learned.
d. When he sees two of his classmates arguing at lunch, Abbott joins them and encourages each of them to look at the conflict from the other's perspective.
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