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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long ago had the Maoris ancestors arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia?
2. How many children were on Ashton-Warner's school basketball team?
3. To what music did the children perform spontaneous, expressive dance?
4. What did Ashton-Warner call the "weakest" words in the language?
5. To what institution did Ashton-Warner compare teaching?
Short Essay Questions
1. What set the local Maori pa (village) where Ashton-Warner taught apart from other pas?
2. Why was Ashton-Warner surprised at the appearance of the new classrooms when she visited?
3. What did the students' compositions reveal about their family lives?
4. Why did Ashton-Warner write at the end of "Holidays" that she was no longer lonely?
5. In her discussion of pedagogy as marriage, what did Ashton-Warner mean when she said that "love interferes with fidelity"?
6. How did Maoris and whites differ in terms of communal gatherings?
7. Why did Ashton-Warner say that when giving first words to her students, she avoided showing them any illustrations of those words?
8. What were the vocabulary words like in the new classroom?
9. How did Ashton-Warner describe the moments in her life when she knew the meaning of what was happening to her?
10. Why was Ashton-Warner so worried about the prospect of being visited by the inspector?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ashton-Warner wrote at length about the importance of tone in the classroom. Write an essay exploring how tone is set in the classroom and how several people have a role in setting that tone. Does the tone have to be the same from classroom to classroom or school to school? Or should there be variations based on the unique needs of the teachers and students? How does a teacher determine what tone works best for her students and how does she achieve that tone, especially if it differs from what she would normally like to see?
Essay Topic 2
Sylvia-Ashton Warner wrote about her attempts to bring some order to the classroom when the students got out of hand. She eventually realized that the first few bars of Beethoven's Fifth on the piano did the trick. Write an essay exploring how music can be used in the classroom to bring calm during difficult times. What is it about music that speaks to all humans, regardless of ethnic or racial background? How does it provide a form of "quiet control" that is more effective than yelling or making other loud noises to get attention? Why were the Maori children entranced by Western classical music?
Essay Topic 3
Ashton-Warner wrote about the "Golden Section" in education and how she incorporated nature into the classroom. What are the benefits of teaching about nature in the classroom? How does nature provide insights into other areas of the curriculum? Ashton-Warner's classroom was somewhat unique in that the nature was right outside and sometimes even entered the classroom. How do teachers living in more urban environments bring nature into the classroom? Is it possible for all teachers to take their students out into actual natural settings or can there be benefits to bringing natural lessons into the physical classroom? How does the natural world speak to children and how can that be harnessed?
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