Which One of the Following Examples Most Clearly Illustrates a Cognitive

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following examples most clearly illustrates a cognitive apprenticeship?

• A)A junior high school English class is reading Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." At the end of each verse, the teacher describes the visual images and feelings that the poem elicits for him, and he encourages his students to do likewise.
• B)An elementary school teacher gives his students lots of practice doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems so that they will be able to solve word problems more effectively later in the school year.
• C)In a high school chemistry lab, a teacher clearly describes the steps that she expects her students to take as they conduct their laboratory experiment.She also lists the things that students should do after the experiment.
• D)A middle school physical education teacher puts her students in pairs as they practice their forward and backward rolls.She asks the students in each pair to observe each other and give each other feedback about how to improve.

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