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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers, what is the goal when kids become the "crowd or herd"?
(a) Teach great lessons.
(b) Create the "factory" student.
(c) Teach students one on one.
(d) To manage the mob.

2. Ayers believed that what is the strongest source of knowledge about a student?
(a) The parents.
(b) Doctors.
(c) The student.
(d) Teachers.

3. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?
(a) Ladies Home Journal.
(b) Life.
(c) Redbook.
(d) Time.

4. Who believed that "young children's thinking is concrete and immediate compared to the thinking of older children"?
(a) Abraham Maslow.
(b) Jean Piaget.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Erik Erikson.

5. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?
(a) Principals.
(b) Parents.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Administrators.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?

2. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?

3. What color did Darlene "spy"?

4. What should all teachers take into consideration when understanding children, according to Ayers?

5. What does Ayers say is required to teach from a solid base of knowing students?

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