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Ethnic Diversity -
correct answer ✅Higher proportions of New Yorkers are foreign
born and do not speak English at home
Poverty -
correct answer ✅New York ranks fourth in the US for people living
in poverty
What percentage of female led households with children live in
poverty? -
correct answer ✅Nearly 40%
What percentage of Latinos live in poverty? -
correct answer ✅About 27%
What percentage of African Americans live in poverty? -
correct answer ✅About 25%
What is the number of homeless children in New York? -
correct answer ✅Exceeding 100,000
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Income Disparity -
correct answer ✅New York is second only to Washington DC in
income disparities in wage earners in all incomes
Motivation -
correct answer ✅Keeps learners interested and focused on a
lesson; can be intrinsic or extrinsic
Intrinsic Motivation -
correct answer ✅Refers to topics that students enjoy or like;
effective if based on a knowledge of what is popular or interesting
to students of a particular age
Extrinsic Motivation -
correct answer ✅Focuses on external rewards for good work or
goal attainment; successful when used in conjunction with more
routine work
What are some keys to motivating students? -
correct answer ✅Clear, unambiguous objective, stimulating tasks,
allow students to have choices
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Keys to successful learning -
correct answer ✅Students are engaged at an appropriate level,
they are taught as opposed to working independently, material is at
an appropriate level, teachers expect them to master the
curriculum, the classroom is positive, not critical and students
develop a positive attitude to teachers who appear warm.
Classroom approaches -
correct answer ✅Zone of Proximal Development, Gardner's
Multiple Intelligences, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Human
Motivation
Zone of Proximal Development -
correct answer ✅Vygotsky. Tasks that students cannot do without
help can be done with help; applied with scaffolding
Scaffolding -
correct answer ✅Vygotsky. Student receives help to learn
something in his/her ZPD; help is withdrawn in a measured way
until the help becomes unnecessary
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences -
correct answer ✅Howard Gardner. Spatial, Linguistic, Logical-
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Mathematic, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal,
Intrapersonal, Naturalistic, Existential.
Spatial Thinkers -
correct answer ✅One of Gardener's 9 Multiple Intelligences.
Students who learn best visualizing problems and solutions.
Linguistic Thinkers -
correct answer ✅One of Gardener's 9 Multiple Intelligences.
Students who learn best through words and language.
Logical-Mathematic Thinkers -
correct answer ✅One of Gardener's 9 Multiple Intelligences.
Students who learn best through abstract and scientific thinking
and through solving numerical problems. Strongly related to
traditional measure of intelligence.
Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence -
correct answer ✅One of Gardener's 9 Multiple Intelligences.
Students who learn best through physical activity and are generally
good at sports and dance.