Essay Items

72.Your text emphasizes the role of order and safety in learning.  Suggest two reasons that order and safety are important, and provide two personal suggestions as to how you will incorporate order and safety into your learning and instruction plan.

73.“Geography influences the way we live,” Hector Gonzalez says to his students as they compare the influence of geography on lifestyles in Minnesota and California. “It influences the way make money, how we spend our leisure time, and even the way we dress. This is why we study it, and we’ll look for these relationships in all the rest of our units.” Which component and what variable of the model for promoting student motivation are best illustrated by Hector’s statements? Explain.

74.Select a basic skills topic of your choice, such as a grammar rule, part of speech, or math skill.  Describe how you would teach the topic incorporating each of the climate variables in the model for promoting student motivation.  Provide specific examples in your response.

75.Identify the six component parts of the TARGET model.  Provide positive and negative examples for each component, showing how it could be effective for student motivation and, conversely, how it might decrease student motivation.