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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the focus of Ayers' book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Second Edition?
(a) The lives of teachers.
(b) The lives of administrators.
(c) The lives of the incarcerated.
(d) The lives of children.

2. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," what did Ayers have children research for an assignment?
(a) The child's family's geneology.
(b) The child's first name.
(c) The child's last name.
(d) The area the child lived.

3. Ayers believes that learning is what?
(a) Hard.
(b) Easy.
(c) Not linear.
(d) Boring.

4. What percentage of African American boys does Ayers say will spend some time in prison?
(a) 33% will spend some time in prison.
(b) 10% will spend some time in prison.
(c) 25% will spend some time in prison.
(d) 66% will spend some time in prison.

5. What was the average annual cost to house an inmate in 1999?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $30,000.
(c) $20,000.
(d) $10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayers believes that what sets up schools as institutional forms for re-creation of specific values and norms, dispositions, and assumptions?

2. Who documented her classroom experiences through an impressive series of books?

3. Who argued that "the teacher who wishes to be more functionary cannot escape the value problem or the difficult matter of moral choice"?

4. Which country's children did Gellhorn write about?

5. In Ayers classroom, what dominated the window sills and counter tops?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "Beginning, The Challenge of Teaching," how did Jakob feel after learning to read?

2. What pains does Ayers say teachers usually face?

3. What does learning require, according to Ayers's research?

4. According to Ayers, what is the framework of a daily lesson plan?

5. What is the difference between the old and new edition of "To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher"?

6. What did Ayers say the first step of a staff review required?

7. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," describe the treasure hunt.

8. In Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did Ayers describe Chesa?

9. According to Ayers, what does learning with students enact and demonstrate?

10. How did Ayers build a laboratory for discovery and surprise?

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