What is the main function of assessment? a. to make placement ...

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What is the main function of assessment?
 
 

a. to make placement decisions for students requiring special services
  b. to evaluate students performance to maintain specific standards
  c. to understand a students family dynamics
  d. to maximize the learning opportunities in classrooms to help students learn at their optimal levels

Question 2

List three strategies that might help to create a healthy psychosocial environment in the classroom?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

List three strategies that might help to create a healthy psychosocial environment in the classroom?
_ Encourage exploration and questioning
_ Support failures as learning opportunities
_ Share laughter with students
_ Provide students with opportunities to make choices and to learn from them
_ Teach students to work and play with their peers
_ Model and reinforce appropriate social interactions with peers and adults.
_ Provide opportunities for students to evaluate the social atmosphere of the classroom.
_ Refine teaching and learning opportunities based on feedback from the students.
_ Use logical and natural consequences to help your students learn to manage their own behavior
_ Model the management of your own emotions so that your students can learn to communicate effectively
and appropriately even in times of emotional distress
_ Use your role with your students to promote communication that respects their feelings and abilities
_ Evaluate the effectiveness of your systems at least twice during the school year by asking for feedback
from students and their families
_ Respond to issues that emerge from the feedback and change your system if necessary