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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. Who underlined the importance of identity and broadening group affiliation with adolescents?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Abraham Maslow.

2. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?
(a) With a decision.
(b) Provided teachers with a deeper understanding.
(c) In an abrupt manner.
(d) With critical discussion.

3. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?
(a) Culturally deprived.
(b) Savages.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) At Risk.

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

5. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Parents.
(b) Inequalities.
(c) Schools.
(d) Teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?

2. Who described a student as "ordinarily expressive and lively when talking about ideas and information"?

3. What does Ayers say lesson plans typically begin with?

4. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what did Ayers have children research for an assignment?

5. Ayers believed that what is the strongest source of knowledge about a student?

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