PPR FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔Mr. Hall, a middle school teacher, has the following goals while creating his behavior
management program.
Goal 1: Develop an effective set of behavior expectations for students, including
rewards and consequences.
Goal 2: Establish positive relationships with students' parents to get support for the
behavior management program.
Which of the following could Mr. Hall do to best achieve his main goal related to
parents?
A. Meet with the parents as soon as the students violate the behavior standards
B. Call the parents when help is needed to maintain the standards appropriately
C. Send an introductory letter home on the first day of school that asks for a conference
in the first month
D. Solicit parental involvement when there is an after-school grade-level activity -
✔✔Send an introductory letter home on the first day of school that asks for a
conference in the first month
✔✔Mr. Hall, a middle school teacher, has the following goals while creating his behavior
management program.
Goal 1: Develop an effective set of behavior expectations for students, including
rewards and consequences.
Goal 2: Establish positive relationships with students' parents to get support for the
behavior management program.
After the plan has been implemented, Mr. Hall schedules a phone conference with the
parents of a student who is not following the plan. In the conference, which of the
following approaches will best promote the second goal?
A. Developing behavior standards to be implemented at home and then summarizing
how to address academics and behavior
B. Preparing notes on the student's misconduct and then suggesting ways for the
parents to provide positive and negative consequences
C. Providing a more specific set of behavior standards and then suggesting that the
parents email any questions and/or - ✔✔Summarizing the student's achievements and
challenges and then encouraging the parents to discuss the situation
✔✔Ms. Lyons observes that a majority of the students in her class are not following a
recently taught math process on how to regroup while subtracting. Which of the
following would be the best way to reteach the math process?
, A. Selecting more complicated examples to better demonstrate the process
B. Connecting the underlying concepts to the process
C. Using abstract terms to explain the process
D. Presenting the process to a small group of students - ✔✔Connecting the underlying
concepts to the process
✔✔When posing a question, the amount of wait time a teacher allows before calling on
a student for a response primarily depends on the
A. familiarity of the concept being discussed.
B. amount of time allotted for the lesson.
C. cognitive level of the question being asked.
D. number of students with their hands raised. - ✔✔cognitive level of the question being
asked.
✔✔17. Before beginning a unit on plant life, students in a class answer the question,
"What questions do you have about plant life?" in their learning journals. At the end of
the unit, the teacher has students return to their list of questions and answer as many
as they can. A primary reason for using this activity is to help the teacher
A. understand students' opinions about plant life.
B. encourage interaction between students about plant life.
C. foster student ownership in their learning about plant life.
D. develop students' scientific vocabulary about plant life. - ✔✔foster student ownership
in their learning about plant life.
✔✔24. In a physical education class that includes several English-language learners
(ELLs) at various levels of language proficiency, the physical education teacher displays
a list of vocabulary words related to basketball. Which of the following strategies will
best support the ELLs' understanding of the vocabulary words?
A. Reviewing the definitions during each class period
B. Pantomiming the words with the class
C. Reading the words aloud as a whole class
D. Modeling the pronunciation of the words as a class - ✔✔Pantomiming the words with
the class
✔✔25. Which of the following is the most effective way for a teacher to monitor student
understanding of a task during group activities?
A. Observing student interactions while circulating around the room
B. Remaining in an accessible location to answer student questions
C. Asking one member of the team to report on the group's activity
RATED A+
✔✔Mr. Hall, a middle school teacher, has the following goals while creating his behavior
management program.
Goal 1: Develop an effective set of behavior expectations for students, including
rewards and consequences.
Goal 2: Establish positive relationships with students' parents to get support for the
behavior management program.
Which of the following could Mr. Hall do to best achieve his main goal related to
parents?
A. Meet with the parents as soon as the students violate the behavior standards
B. Call the parents when help is needed to maintain the standards appropriately
C. Send an introductory letter home on the first day of school that asks for a conference
in the first month
D. Solicit parental involvement when there is an after-school grade-level activity -
✔✔Send an introductory letter home on the first day of school that asks for a
conference in the first month
✔✔Mr. Hall, a middle school teacher, has the following goals while creating his behavior
management program.
Goal 1: Develop an effective set of behavior expectations for students, including
rewards and consequences.
Goal 2: Establish positive relationships with students' parents to get support for the
behavior management program.
After the plan has been implemented, Mr. Hall schedules a phone conference with the
parents of a student who is not following the plan. In the conference, which of the
following approaches will best promote the second goal?
A. Developing behavior standards to be implemented at home and then summarizing
how to address academics and behavior
B. Preparing notes on the student's misconduct and then suggesting ways for the
parents to provide positive and negative consequences
C. Providing a more specific set of behavior standards and then suggesting that the
parents email any questions and/or - ✔✔Summarizing the student's achievements and
challenges and then encouraging the parents to discuss the situation
✔✔Ms. Lyons observes that a majority of the students in her class are not following a
recently taught math process on how to regroup while subtracting. Which of the
following would be the best way to reteach the math process?
, A. Selecting more complicated examples to better demonstrate the process
B. Connecting the underlying concepts to the process
C. Using abstract terms to explain the process
D. Presenting the process to a small group of students - ✔✔Connecting the underlying
concepts to the process
✔✔When posing a question, the amount of wait time a teacher allows before calling on
a student for a response primarily depends on the
A. familiarity of the concept being discussed.
B. amount of time allotted for the lesson.
C. cognitive level of the question being asked.
D. number of students with their hands raised. - ✔✔cognitive level of the question being
asked.
✔✔17. Before beginning a unit on plant life, students in a class answer the question,
"What questions do you have about plant life?" in their learning journals. At the end of
the unit, the teacher has students return to their list of questions and answer as many
as they can. A primary reason for using this activity is to help the teacher
A. understand students' opinions about plant life.
B. encourage interaction between students about plant life.
C. foster student ownership in their learning about plant life.
D. develop students' scientific vocabulary about plant life. - ✔✔foster student ownership
in their learning about plant life.
✔✔24. In a physical education class that includes several English-language learners
(ELLs) at various levels of language proficiency, the physical education teacher displays
a list of vocabulary words related to basketball. Which of the following strategies will
best support the ELLs' understanding of the vocabulary words?
A. Reviewing the definitions during each class period
B. Pantomiming the words with the class
C. Reading the words aloud as a whole class
D. Modeling the pronunciation of the words as a class - ✔✔Pantomiming the words with
the class
✔✔25. Which of the following is the most effective way for a teacher to monitor student
understanding of a task during group activities?
A. Observing student interactions while circulating around the room
B. Remaining in an accessible location to answer student questions
C. Asking one member of the team to report on the group's activity
