Complete the sentences referring to the article

B Match the following phrases as they go in the text. Make up your own sentences with them describing your learning style.

A To be sure that you understand the words, match the verbs in the left column with their definitions in the right column.

Study the Essential Vocabulary; use it while doing the assignments below.

Robert J. Sternberg,

IBM Professor of Psychology and Educatio n

(from Educational Leadership)

v Thematic Vocabulary

1) to enhance (to foster) thinking skills

2) to invariably teach and assess students

3) to place many students at a marked disadvantage

4) mismatches in teaching and learning styles; to be mismatched

5) to expand one’s ways of teaching and assessing students

6) to accommodate (to match) all thinking and learning styles

7) immediate and powerful increases in student performance

8) to have the predominant style profile

9) to be not locked into one profile

10) to vary (to shift) styles to suit smb

11) to emulate the role models at different points in our life

12) to set priorities

13) to take a random approach to problems

14) to be self-sufficient

15) to defy (to follow) conventions

16) to do things in tried and true ways

17) to budget sufficient time for doing smth

18) to figure out how to do smth

19) traditional / non-traditional classroom setting

20) to exhibit an array of styles/ a variety of styles

21) to chafe at guidelines

22) to underestimate; to undervalue; to devalue the students’ abilities and achievements / accomplishments

23) to receive more favourable evaluations

24) to have situational and dispositional differences

25) to view smb as a relatively homogeneous group

v Vocabulary Practice

1) to concur a) to try to equal or excel, to imitate

2) to discern b) to promote the growth or development

3) to enhance c) to increase in size or importance

4) to expand d) to make or become annoyed

5) to accommodate e) to understand

6) to emulate f) to distinguish

7) to figure out g) to agree, to consent

8) to chafe at h) to intensify (qualities, value); to reinforce

9) to defy i) to adapt; to harmonise; to assist

10) to foster j) to resist openly, refuse to obey

1) to emulate a) in our flexibility

2) to vary b) an array of styles

3) to place c) the student’s abilities and achievements

4) to expand d) the role models

5) to accommodate e) the energies in an organized and focused

way

6) to defy f) more favourable evaluations

7) to approach g) the ways of teaching

8) to underestimate h) students at a marked disadvantage

9) to receive i) problems randomly

10)to direct j) conventions

v Text Comprehension

1) Teachers almost invariably teach and assess students in ways that…

2) If teachers expand their ways of teaching and assessing students to accommodate virtually all thinking and learning styles, they…

3) We all have a styles/profile, meaning…

4) The basic idea of the theory known as mental self-government is that…

5) To reach every student, teachers must accommodate …

6) Most teachers are best at teaching children who…

7) The more students differ from the teacher culturally, ethnically and socio-economically, the more…

8) The research further shows that students’ styles, at least to some degree, come to match their teachers’ just as…

9) Teachers’ styles not only differ across schools, but…

10) It is possible that the two groups of teachers also have dispositional differences, which may account for…

v Critical Reading

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