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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. In Chapter 6, "Keeping Track," what is the process of narrowing, punishing, and controlling from the outside that too often passed for assessment?

2. Ayers said that someone is required to lay the first plank for what?

3. Who argued that good teachers incorporated all kinds of instructional strategies and are vigilant for "what works"?

4. What type of questions make up the majority of the standardized test?

5. What did Ayers take away from a seven year old in the lunch room at P.S. 269?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ayers say greatness in teaching requires?

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

3. What are Ayers's feelings on standardized tests?

4. What were Ayers's feelings during the Illinois Teachers Basic Skills Test?

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

6. What can't standardized tests measure?

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

8. Based on Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," describe why Zayd's project, a project focused on values, was an important hopeful approach to teaching.

9. Describe Ayers's quest in teaching.

10. In Chapter 4, "Building Bridges," what did the second grade newsletter contain?

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

Throughout the book, Ayers discussed how to become a great teacher. Ayers also discussed how the teacher's job is never finished.

Part 1) Do you agree with Ayers when he states "Teaching is never finished"? Explain.

Part 2) How did one become a "wonderful teacher"?

Essay Topic 3

According to Ayers, teaching was entombed in a myth. Ayers discussed twelve myths of teaching.

Part 1) Discuss three of the twelve myths Ayers addressed in the book.

Part 2) Why did these myths exist?

Part 3) How can one be sure these myths are not true?

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