COSMETOLOGY INSTRUCTOR EXAM STUDY
GUIDE Updated Actual Question and Answer
(2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• AACS/CEA -✓✓ American Association of Cosmetology Schools/Cosmetology
Educators of America
• ACTIVE LISTENING -✓✓ Be with the speaker, don't interrupt, repeat, gain
agreement.
• ADD/ADHD -✓✓ Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
• ADVISORY COUNCIL -✓✓ Composed of school owners and directors,
educators and employers, graduates, representatives from state, regulatory
oversight agencies. Identifies and prioritizes subject matter and skills that need to
be taught.
• ANECDOTES -✓✓ Describes a specific point to help get the learners focus
directed toward the objectives of the lesson.
• ANTICIPATORY SET -✓✓ The process of getting the students ready to learn.
• ASSERTIVENESS -✓✓ The degree of boldness or confidence one has in dealing
with others.
• AUTHORITY -✓✓ An individual cited or appealed to as an expert or to
influence thought, opinion, or behavior.
, • CLASSROOM ARRANGEMENTS -✓✓ Helps to determine educator control,
sightlines with and among students, and overall student participation.
• COMPASSION -✓✓ The deep feeling of sharing or feeling the pain or suffering
of another, sympathy.
• CONFERENCES -✓✓ Private, nonthreatening, face to face talk to bring about
change, not to intimidate or control behavior.
• CONSISTENCY -✓✓ Behaving the same way on repeated occasions when the
circumstances are the same or similar.
• COURSE OBJECTIVE -✓✓ AKA: Program objective - specifies the learning
outcomes of the program of study.
• COURSE OF STUDY -✓✓ AKA: Program of study - Properly developed
program will result in an orderly and systematic process of education.
• CRITICISM -✓✓ Be open to constructive criticism, be humble, put yourself in
the other person's shoes, apologize if necessary and don't whine, cry, or blame
others.
• CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT -✓✓ The process of developing a set of
courses constituting an area of specialization as prescribed by the state regulatory
agency.
GUIDE Updated Actual Question and Answer
(2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• AACS/CEA -✓✓ American Association of Cosmetology Schools/Cosmetology
Educators of America
• ACTIVE LISTENING -✓✓ Be with the speaker, don't interrupt, repeat, gain
agreement.
• ADD/ADHD -✓✓ Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder
• ADVISORY COUNCIL -✓✓ Composed of school owners and directors,
educators and employers, graduates, representatives from state, regulatory
oversight agencies. Identifies and prioritizes subject matter and skills that need to
be taught.
• ANECDOTES -✓✓ Describes a specific point to help get the learners focus
directed toward the objectives of the lesson.
• ANTICIPATORY SET -✓✓ The process of getting the students ready to learn.
• ASSERTIVENESS -✓✓ The degree of boldness or confidence one has in dealing
with others.
• AUTHORITY -✓✓ An individual cited or appealed to as an expert or to
influence thought, opinion, or behavior.
, • CLASSROOM ARRANGEMENTS -✓✓ Helps to determine educator control,
sightlines with and among students, and overall student participation.
• COMPASSION -✓✓ The deep feeling of sharing or feeling the pain or suffering
of another, sympathy.
• CONFERENCES -✓✓ Private, nonthreatening, face to face talk to bring about
change, not to intimidate or control behavior.
• CONSISTENCY -✓✓ Behaving the same way on repeated occasions when the
circumstances are the same or similar.
• COURSE OBJECTIVE -✓✓ AKA: Program objective - specifies the learning
outcomes of the program of study.
• COURSE OF STUDY -✓✓ AKA: Program of study - Properly developed
program will result in an orderly and systematic process of education.
• CRITICISM -✓✓ Be open to constructive criticism, be humble, put yourself in
the other person's shoes, apologize if necessary and don't whine, cry, or blame
others.
• CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT -✓✓ The process of developing a set of
courses constituting an area of specialization as prescribed by the state regulatory
agency.
