Your school district is considering eliminating recess for primary grade students in order to devote more time to basic skills instruction, and has invited teachers to respond. What would your response be?
a. This is a good idea because most teachers want to have more time for instruction.
b. This is a good idea because it will contribute to higher test scores when the children start taking standardized tests in third grade.
c. This is neither a good idea nor a bad idea since recess has no noticeable positive or negative effect on children's development.
d. This is a bad idea since recess provides multiple benefits for primary grade students.
Question 2
An approach to learning that is based on a student's ability to effectively assimilate information into existing schemes and to develop new schemes and operations in response to novel or discrepant ideas is called
a. operant conditioning.
b. cognitive constructivism.
c. social learning theory.
d. social constructivism.
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