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Short Answer Question: What is the importance of listening, responding, acknowledging, and affirming?

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People who are greeted and acknowledged regularly feel affirmed and tend to be more available for learning.

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Short Answer: What is Classroom Climate?

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"The feelings and beliefs students have and the cumulative patterns of behavior that result from those feelings and beliefs regarding community and mutual support, risk taking and confidence and control" (Saphier, Haley-Specta, Grower, p. 635.).

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True or False: Learning accelerates when the climate goes beyond meeting safety and security needs?

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Answer: True

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Short Answer: What are the three strands of the classroom climate?

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Answer: 1. Community support. 2. Confidence and risk taking. 3. Influence and control.

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Short Answer: Can good listening skills be taught?

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Answer ; Yes. "tudents can be warned up to the qualities of good listening by doing mirror exercises" (Saphia, Haley-Speca, Growler, 2008, p. 640).

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Multiple Choice:

Which one of these terms is NOT a step in Conflict Resolution?

1. 1. Recognize your anger, calm down, and collect your self.

   2. Identify the real problem, define the problem both small and specific.

2. 3. State a desired goal/outcome in positive terms.

3. 4. Think of several solutions, brainstorm.

4. 5. If you still disagree, you can walk away.

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Answer: Number 5

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Multiple Choice: Which of these beliefs are NOT a positive belief in risk taking:

1. 1. Mistakes can help one learn.

2. 2. You are not supposed to understand everything the first time around.

3. 3. Good students solicit lots of help and feedback on their work.

4. 4. Everyone is capable of high achievement, not just the fastest.

5. 5. Mistakes are a sign of weakness.

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Answer: Number 5, mistakes are not a sign of weakness.

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Multiple Choice: With one is NOT a negative belief:

"1. Speed is what counts, the faster the better, faster is smarter.

2. 2. Good students can do it by themselves.

3. 3. Consistant effort and effective strategies are the main determinants of success.

4. 4. Inborn intelligence's the determinant of success.

5. 5. Only a few who are bright can achieve at a high level" ( Saphier, Haley-Speca, Gower, 2008, p. 638).

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Answer: # 3

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Short Answer: What is an effective strategy for students to have the teacher stop because they are lost/not understanding?

This is your personal strategy.

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Answer: According to Saphier, you let students use a signal to stop the teacher, in my classroom, students hold up two fingers, that indicates to me to either, ask them what they understand/not understand, review, and take it a little slower.

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Short Answer: What is Culturally Relevant Teaching? Open question.

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Answer: Saphier, et al 2008, emphasis classroom community, The idea is to know your students, teaching begins with students prior experience cultural assets, language backgrounds, and learning profiles and high expectations for all.