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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Creating an Environment for Learning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ayers, what should the larger goal of education be?
(a) Increased teacher pay.
(b) Adequate education for 75% of children.
(c) Adequate education for all children.
(d) Complete overall of educational system.

2. According to Chapter 2, "Seeing the Student," how did a staff review session end?
(a) Provided teachers with a deeper understanding.
(b) In an abrupt manner.
(c) With a decision.
(d) With critical discussion.

3. What high school did Ayers's brother teach English?
(a) North Campton High School.
(b) Bismarck High School.
(c) Berkeley High School.
(d) Los Angeles High School.

4. Ayers believed that ____________ integrate and give meaning to other aspects of school and curriculum, along with engaging and focusing children's energy.
(a) Projects.
(b) Portfolios.
(c) Homework.
(d) Videos.

5. What does Ayers say "allowed us to glimpse into something of the depth of this enterprise and to unearth the intellectual and ethical implications"?
(a) The ongoing conversation about teaching.
(b) The problems that plagued education.
(c) The willingness to embrace the new.
(d) A new focus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Ayers begin teaching?

2. Who was an exemplary teacher that argued that one central organizing goal in our schools must be the creation of communities of care and compassion?

3. Ayers suggests that who "resisted the idea that there is some ideal child with whom they would be brilliant; they must reject the idea of social circumstance"?

4. What does Ayers say the message should be to the children in youth?

5. In Ayers preschool classroom, which area felt "cozy and home-like"?

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