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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, it is important for all teachers to be what?
(a) School Centered.
(b) Teacher-centered.
(c) Student-centered.
(d) Fair.

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

3. What does Ayers cite is the main reason students drop out?
(a) Not enough homework.
(b) Too much homework.
(c) Saw no value in educaiton.
(d) No adult cared if they stayed.

4. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?
(a) A new focus.
(b) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(c) The willingness to embrace the new.
(d) The problems that plagued education.

5. How did Ayers stay alive as a teacher?
(a) Ayers did not let things bother him.
(b) Ayers closed his mind to others.
(c) Ayers knew it all.
(d) Ayers stayed open to mystery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is considered by Ayers an epidemic in our schools known as a toxic habit with no limits?

2. 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"?

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

4. Who argued that "teachers can be aided in the difficult matter of moral choice if they can adopt an ethic of caring"?

5. What did Ayers say died at an early age for too many young Americans?

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