Chapter 1
Students as Learners
Course: Principles Of Learning And Teaching 5622
Subject: Principles Of Learning And Teaching
Chapter: Constructed Response Questions
Case History
Directions: The case history is followed by two constructed-response questions.
Scenario
Mr. Duval teaches first grade at a public elementary school. Noor enrolls in his class in February, having attended two different schools since the start of the year. Mr. Duval notices that Noor's language and number skills lag behind those of her classmates and that she rarely initiates interaction with peers. He arranges a conference with Ms. Haddad, Noor's aunt and legal guardian.
Document 1 - Notes from the conference with Ms. Haddad
Noor came to live with Ms. Haddad in January following a family illness and has limited contact with her mother. Ms. Haddad reports that Noor knows the alphabet song but cannot name most letters when they are shown to her out of order. Noor writes the first letter of her name and then asks for help with the rest. She counts aloud to twenty, but when Ms. Haddad asks her to set the table, Noor brings a number of plates unrelated to the number of people eating. Ms. Haddad says she sits with Noor at bedtime and looks at magazines with her, since the household has no children's books; she adds that she is unsure what else would help. The family lives above a storefront on a commercial street, and Noor has no regular playmates. She spends most afternoons drawing.