Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Pages 25-31

Effective middle grades teachers and administrators are specifically prepared to work with and advocate for young adolescents through specialized middle grades professional preparation.

• True

• False

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Middle grades professional preparation incorporates opportunities for preservice teachers to engage in delayed, haphazard and low-quality clinical experiences in middle grades classrooms.

• True

• False

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Successful middle grades professional preparation programs integrate equity-oriented and anti-racist pedagogies throughout preservice teachers' programs to (a)   them to address issues of equity, diversity, and social justice in their future classrooms. ​ ​

• prepare
• dissuade

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Together clinical experiences and university courses prepare teachers to implement equitable practices in middle grades classrooms and moves teaching from (a)   intentions to effective action, thus developing their ability to become advocates for change.

• good
• bad

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Though middle grades teacher preparation matters, there are many middle grades teachers and administrators whose pathways to the profession required limited or no specialized middle grades training.

• True

• False

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​ Young ​ (a)   deserve ​ (b)   who are prepared and deeply committed to working with them

• adolescents
• educators
• parents
• bus drivers

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A middle grades curriculum invites students to learn about matters of personal, social, moral, and ethical significance.

• True

• False

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Define "hidden curriculum".

• what students learn directly but surely from the people with whom they interact, the structures in which they work and the issues that inevitably occur....

• what students learn indirectly but surely from the people with whom they interact, the structures in which they work and the issues that inevitably occur....

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Identify the actions successful middle grade educators do. Choose 3.

• examine materials to identify what is missing in order to provide a more inclusive and anti-racist curriculum

• facilitate explicit and developmentally appropriate conversations about race.

• examine materials to identify what is misrepresented in order to provide a more inclusive and anti-racist curriculum

• facilitate explicit and developmentally appropriate conversations about taking selfies.

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Challenging curriculum addresses substantive concepts and skills and is appropriately geared to each ​ (a)   level of understanding and ​ (b)   .

• student's
• readiness
• teacher's
• income

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