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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seeing the Student.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?
(a) Do your best.
(b) Focus on other students.
(c) You are here for an education.
(d) You are a valuable person.

2. What does Ayers identify as a time of invention, discovery, and surprise?
(a) Daycare.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Adulthood.
(d) School.

3. What model is curriculum built on based on Ayers's research?
(a) The teacher-centered model.
(b) The surplus model.
(c) The student-centered model.
(d) The deficit model.

4. According to Ayers, how many Americans were incarcerated in the year 2000?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) One million.
(d) Two million.

5. What did Ayers say "cramped choices and strangled life chances for the children of the poor"?
(a) Inequalities.
(b) Schools.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Greek God did Ayers compare outstanding teachers to?

2. In which publication did Martha Gellhorn write a piece about loving our children?

3. According to Ayers, what were many of Ayers's students when he began teaching?

4. Who created an impressive archive and research center where they have collected the work of hundreds of children over many years?

5. What does Ayers say lesson plans typically begin with?

(see the answer key)

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