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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. Who described an astonishing process while teaching a course "The Art of Black English"?

2. What level of teachers needed to visit and revisit the regular curriculum question regularly?

3. According to Ayers, what are standardized tests?

4. What do educators become when "talk turned to skills" according to Ayers?

5. According to Ayers, what consumes millions and millions of education dollars?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," describe Zayd's "coming of age" discoveries.

2. What did Ayers mean when he linked "consciousness to conduct"?

3. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," what problems occurred when teachers tried to implement a new idea every day?

4. According to Ayers, how do teachers become students to their students?

5. According to Ayers, what are good schools?

6. What can't standardized tests measure?

7. In Chapter 7, "The Mystery of Teaching," describe the students at Imani School.

8. According to Ayers, where do standardized tests push well-intentioned teachers and school leaders?

9. According to Ayers, what does culture include?

10. In Chapter 5, "Liberating the Curriculum," what did Sarah's mother discuss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pat Carini argued that "each person was a mystery." Each student was a mystery to the teacher.

Part 1) Discuss Pat Carini's argument.

Part 2) What did Carini remind teachers about?

Essay Topic 2

Ayers discussed the success of Stokley Carmichael's Freedom School. Stokley Carmichael was very active in the Black Power movement.

Part 1) Discuss what Ayers said about the success of Freedom School?

Part 2) According to Ayers, what role did the Freedom School play in the life of students who attended Freedom Schools?

Essay Topic 3

William Ayers spent most of his professional life teaching. Ayers classroom was a laboratory for teaching.

Part 1) Describe Ayers's research shared in the book.

Part 2) Explain Ayers's focus of the book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher.

Part 3) What teaching "tips" or suggestions does Ayers hope the reader takes away from the book?

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