FTCE Professional Practice Test

How can a student be assessed by direct observation?

When reading a book

The amount of student time on task

Reviewing test examples

Discussing ways to combat pollution

A teacher action most likely to help develop students divergent thinking abilities?

Analyzing a political cartoon

The amount of students time on task

Ask students to discuss ways to combat pollution

Curiousity

The best procedure for preparing a class of high achieving students to take a standardized aptitude test?

Review examples of the types of questions used on the test

If you don't know an answer skip the question

Don't leave any blank questions

Develop analytical skills

To best help 10th grade students studying American Revolution develop analytical skills, the teacher should ask students to discuss?

How different with responses, the same event could have changed the outcome of the American Revolutionary was

Analytical skills

the beginning of the great depression

How the American Revolutionary war beginned

A teacher willing to introduce a new unit provided ideas of novel instructional materials and activities to encourage students to do some exploring. What is this intrinsic instructional activity?

Curiousity

Time

Interpersonal

Motivation

What techniques most effectively establish a 9th grade teachers expectations for assignments?

Giving a rubric with assignments

Turning in the assignments at the end of the quater

Keeping a list of due dates for each assignment for the grading period

Writing all due dates for the assignments on the board

An activity that will provide the best feed-back for a teacher who isn't sure his instructional method is effective.

Reflection

Analyzing his professional development

Video taping a lesson to review and analyze strategies

Peer teacher evalution

An activity to provide the best information in developing a new curriculum unit to a high school teacher teaching Chemistry, who wants to add a forensic science unit?

Team teaching with a peer science teacher

Teach the lesson to the best of his ability

Reading an article about forensic science

Showing a video on forensic science

Which activity will aim to enhance an individual teachers growth and performance in the classroom?

Self evaluation

Reflect

Creating a professional development plan

Semantics

What skill is the teacher developing when he asks students to explain how different British responded to some events that change the outcome of the American Revolutionary war

Intelligence skills

Sensory motor skills

Reading skills

Analytical skills

Which activity would best foster critical thinking in high school students?

Illustrating cartoons

Writing an essay

Having a group discussion about animations

Analyzing a political cartoon

What age does a teacher expects to find the greatest fluctuations in the physical, social, and intellectual development?

12-15

0-5

8-10

7-9

What's a useful strategy for helping students accept and follow classroom rules an standards for behaving?

Enforce the rules

Display rules around the class

Request that a list of procedures be developed by student groups

Which lesson would be best for critical thinking skills for middle school science students as they review the concepts of friction?

Illustrating a source of friction

Having a class discussion on how friction works

Providing students a summary on friction

Write a paragraph to describe the source of friction and ways it affects motion

To have 4th grade students creatively demonstrate their understanding of the interdependence of ocean life, a teacher should ask the students to?

Write a play that illustrates the inter relationship

Draw a picture describing the relationship

Create a funny comic strip

Summarize the inter relationships

A high school mathematics teacher would like his students to explore geometric shapes, forms, functions, and uses of daily life. What Activity would best promote students clear thinking of how to accomplish the teachers goal?

Reading books on geometric shapes and functions

Creating a political comic strip

Use multimedia resources to identify and analyze geometric shapes found in daily life

As it relates to students performance and instructional ability: self-fulfilling prophecy means:

Students perform when its beneficial

Students perform according to the teachers perception of the students abilities

Students performance is based on their self esteem

Students perform to gain a reward

Which accommodation is most appropriate for a student with a visual impairment?

Speech to text computer

Seating the student in the back of the classroom

Seating the student in a well lit area away from a light source to help reduce glare

Providing the student with high lighters

The first step in selecting a new arrangement for a classroom where students often bump into each other when they are going to the pencil sharpener, trash can or the water fountain is?

Check for traffic pattern in the room

Consider the physical environment requirements for different types of teaching strategies

Ignore that the students are bumping into things in the classroom

Tell the students to watch where they're walking

After a presentation of information about an assignment a teacher realizes that the students do not understand how to complete the handout. What should the teacher do?

Tell the students to complete the activity to the best of their ability

Reteach the lesson

Ignore that she notice the students don't understand the handout

Work through one example from the handout with the students

A mother insists that her child is gifted and should be placed in the gifted program. When the placement is denied, the mother asked the teacher for the scores of the other children in the gifted class so that she can compare her child's scores with the others. Which is the best explanation?

Allow the parent to see the scores

Ignore the parent an not give her any explaination

Explain to the mother that the law of privacy provides confidentiality of students records

Show the parent the scores and allow the student to be placed in the gifted program

What is the most efficient use of computer laboratory time for an elementary class orientation when each student has access to a computer?

Allow individual students structured hands on experience

Allow the students to work on unstructured activities

Have students explore the internet

Have students work individually on a variety of programs to reinforce what was taught in the class

All of the following are purposes of today's public schools EXCEPT

Ensuring the continuity of cultural homogeneity

Reinforcing social structure

Serving one students needs

Foster students critical thinking

Which practice does the most to perpetuate educational inequality?

Report cards

Simulations

Tracking

Anecdotal reocords

Students who have acquired Basic Interpersonal Skills (BICS) willbe able to use English in?

Describing the characteristics or animals or giving an oral presentation on mammals

Doing a short word problems, mathematics, and answering phones

Ordering lunch in the school cafeteria, greeting the principal, and playing a game with classmates

What's the best activity for linking American history and American literature for high school students?

Assign students to illustrate a picture of great Britian

Assign the students a written report on the great depression

Assign the students to give an oral presentation

Assign the students to have a group discussion on the revolutionary war

A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates that the students scored...

80 percent above her class

Above 80 percent of the norm group

As well as or better than 80 percent of the norming group

Below 80 percent of the class

A teacher introduces new vocabulary words for a selected reading story. After reading the selected story, the next activities the teacher should use for checking comprehension of the vocabulary words is?

Semantic mapping

Drill and practice

Simulations

Word wall

A teacher works with his students who are reading a novel together. Several students struggle with the science fiction aspect of the novel,so the teacher reads a chapter aloud and stops frequently to tell students what thoughts and questions he is having as he reads. Whats is this strategy called?

Guided discovery

Modeling

Choral reading

Group discussion

A student makes disruptive comments on the average of 4 to 5 times daily. Which behavioral strategy should the teacher initiate to deal with the problem?

Ignore the students behavior

Send the student to administration

Call the students parents and inform them of their child's behavior

Develop a plan to change the behavior

The day after a replacement teacher began work, a fire drill was held. The students seemed confused and ill prepared for emergencies. What should the new teacher do?

Wit for the next drill and give specific instructions

Instruct students in the necessary procedures; provide repeated practice

Explain the procedure to the students before evacuating the classroom for the drill

Assume that the students will respond appropriately to the emergency

What's the most important criteria to be applied in the formulation of short range objective for a given subject area?

Objectives should be measurable

Objectives should be specific in explaining the lesson

Objectives should include items that will be at the end of the unit

When a teacher suspects child abuse of student, the teacher should...

Contact the students parents to gather more information

Tell a peer teacher

Contact the Florida abuse hotline and advice the principal of the action

Ask the student id anyone is harming her

A teacher has ask for a computer laboratory during a regular scheduled class period. What is the best procedure for integrating use of the computer into the course?

Have students explore the internet

Have students work in groups to find a variety of activities

Have students work individually on a variety of programs to reinforce what was taught in class

Allow students to play games

According to the National Board of Teacher certification, higher student achievement rates are attributed to...

Modeling

Self evaluation

Intelligence

Participation

Which activity would best foster the creative thinking of 10th grade mathematics students?

Completing a handout on equations

Creating equations

Participating in a group discussion on the lesson equations

Participating in an oral quiz on equations

After a unit on the circulatory system, a middle school teacher wants to assess students knowledge of different blood cells and their function. Which method would be most appropriate to measure comprehension while fostering creative thinking?

Students design a blood cell comic strip depicting blood cells as hero's performing their functions within the body

Analyze the circulatory system

Students illustrate blood cells using multimedia resources

What's the most appropriate method for helping 12th grade students understand the interaction of gender,economic, and political life?

Study how men and women function with their families and commuities

Study how both genders live in the world

Study the roles that men and women play as they provide for their families and working communities

Which is the best method of using art to enrich understanding of cultural differences?

Study how mask are made and used in different cultures throughout the world

Study pottery

Create a rain forest inside of the classroom out of different colors

At the beginning of the school year a teacher would like to determine if her students have had problems that may affect their classroom performance. To gain this information, which of the following sources would be most useful?

Anecdotal record

Cumulative records

Referrals

Report cards

During a class discussion, a teacher wants to emphasize significant concepts and information. Which strategy will best achieve this goal?

Reflect

Underscoring and repetition

Self evaluation

Choral reading

If a teacher wants to know the students performance in another teachers class, the latter can refuse to let them know if?

Report is required last

Other teacher refuse the request

Results in none specifiable professional purpose

School doesn't make the ordinary decision

All of the following instructional practices are effective in promoting and ESOL students self esteem EXCEPT?

Providing extra assignments to the students who sometimes use their Native language in the ESOL classroom

Learning a few words in the students native language

Modeling the correct pronunciation when a student mispronounce a word

Inviting guest speakers in the classroom to share cultural information

Two children from foreign culture have joined a 4th grade class int he middle of the semester, and the other students are making fun of them. What should the teacher do to change the situation?

Have the students bring pictures of them selves and place it on the bulletin board in front of the class

Work separately with your favorite students

Create a learning center based on the foreign cultural and follow with a group discussion

Explain to the class that differential treatment isn't tolerated

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