Students' self-perceptions related to school subject matter ...

[casperchen82]

Students' self-perceptions related to school subject matter affect their learning and performance in the classroom. Imagine you have several students with extremely low self-esteem regarding their ability to perform in your class. Simply giving them encouragementfor example, You can do it if you trymay not be especially effective. Keeping in mind the factors that affect students' sense of self, describe three different strategies that you might use to enhance your students' confidence that they can succeed in school. Describe each of these strategies in terms of specific things that you might do in the classroom.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A good authentic assessment is graded on which kind of criteria?
 
  a. criteria the students perceive as being meaningful to thperformance
 b. criteria the teachers have developed prior to theperformance
 c. criteria based on learning objectives developed at thebeginning of the semester
 d .norm-referenced criteria are the best for authentic
   assessments.

[wshriver]

Answer to Question 1

Strategies for enhancing self-concept and self-esteem include the following (the response should identify at least one concrete strategy related to three of them):
 Promote success in school tasks (e.g., gear assignments to students' current knowledge and ability levels).
 Scaffold students' efforts on challenging tasks.
 Focus students' attention on their improvements over time.
 Minimize opportunities for students to judge themselves unfavorably in comparison with peers

Answer to Question 2

A

[casperchen82]

Wow, this really help

[nguyenhoanhat]

Excellent