Which One of the Following Teachers Is Clearly Keeping the Notion

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following teachers is clearly keeping the notion of situated learning in mind as he or she helps students transfer what they are learning in school?

• A) Ms. Sporer asks her students to speculate about what might have happened if the Europeans had not "discovered" the New World until the 1800s.
• B) Mr. Mendoza makes sure that each one of the students in his instrumental music class knows the difference between the treble and bass clefs.
• C) Ms. Sabih gives each of her elementary art students a hunk of clay and then says, "I'd like you to mold your clay into a mythical creature of some kind-into an animal that no one has ever seen before."
• D) Mr. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.

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Definitions:

Own Emotions

The personal experience and awareness of one's own feelings.

Different Emotions

A range of complex psychological states that reflect feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in response to external and internal stimuli.

Neo-Piagetian

A term referring to theories that integrate Jean Piaget's developmental stages with modern understandings of cognitive development, emphasizing the role of information processing.

Single Representations

Simple, one-dimensional mental images or concepts used by young children as part of their cognitive development.