FTCE Professional Education Practice Test 2025
Questions And Correct Answers Graded A+
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area learning for
students in the class who have histories of limited academic success. To ensure fair
and accurate assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for the
teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as observations,
interviews, test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in assessing their
acquisition of knowledge and skills.
C
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is frowning. The
teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk about it?
In her interaction with Carl, which of the following elements of effective
communication did the teacher exhibit?
A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and paraphrasing
B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a reflective listener
C. being a thoughtful questioner and paraphrasing
,D. redirecting and paraphrasing
B
A high school calculus teacher decides to attend a workshop on a sophisticated
mathematical software program at a state conference. The teacher's probable
purpose for attending the workshop is to
A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
B. participate in collaborative decision making.
C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly defined goals.
D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge
D
An interdisciplinary team of middle school teachers wants to develop lessons that
promote students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the following is most
likely to promote the higher-order thinking skills of middle school students?
A. in math, filling in the missing components of a pattern
B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing significant events of a historical
period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem
C
A first-year third-grade teacher has received her class roster for the upcoming
school year. She notes that the 19 students in her class are culturally diverse and
that two students are receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services - one
,is visually impaired, and the other has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom
layout, it is most important for the teacher to consider the
A. materials and resources available in her classroom.
B. availability of assistive technology equipment in the school.
C. potential discipline problems she might encounter with such a varied group of
students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to use in her classroom.
D
A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they could use the word
HOMES to help them remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario,
Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quickly recognize that the first letters
of the names of the lakes can be arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to
memorizing information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote
A
During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes would it be
appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity
, A
After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts teacher
consults a colleague about how to improve the quality of students' writing
assignments. The teacher's decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of
the following principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective practitioners.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of desired
outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices.
A
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a computer
simulation activity to promote students' evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the simulation
activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell why they did
or did not like the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in the
simulation activity.
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they learned from the
simulation activity.
B
Questions And Correct Answers Graded A+
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area learning for
students in the class who have histories of limited academic success. To ensure fair
and accurate assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for the
teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as observations,
interviews, test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in assessing their
acquisition of knowledge and skills.
C
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is frowning. The
teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk about it?
In her interaction with Carl, which of the following elements of effective
communication did the teacher exhibit?
A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and paraphrasing
B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a reflective listener
C. being a thoughtful questioner and paraphrasing
,D. redirecting and paraphrasing
B
A high school calculus teacher decides to attend a workshop on a sophisticated
mathematical software program at a state conference. The teacher's probable
purpose for attending the workshop is to
A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
B. participate in collaborative decision making.
C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly defined goals.
D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge
D
An interdisciplinary team of middle school teachers wants to develop lessons that
promote students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the following is most
likely to promote the higher-order thinking skills of middle school students?
A. in math, filling in the missing components of a pattern
B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing significant events of a historical
period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem
C
A first-year third-grade teacher has received her class roster for the upcoming
school year. She notes that the 19 students in her class are culturally diverse and
that two students are receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services - one
,is visually impaired, and the other has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom
layout, it is most important for the teacher to consider the
A. materials and resources available in her classroom.
B. availability of assistive technology equipment in the school.
C. potential discipline problems she might encounter with such a varied group of
students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to use in her classroom.
D
A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they could use the word
HOMES to help them remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario,
Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quickly recognize that the first letters
of the names of the lakes can be arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to
memorizing information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote
A
During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes would it be
appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity
, A
After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts teacher
consults a colleague about how to improve the quality of students' writing
assignments. The teacher's decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of
the following principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective practitioners.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of desired
outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices.
A
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a computer
simulation activity to promote students' evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the simulation
activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell why they did
or did not like the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in the
simulation activity.
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they learned from the
simulation activity.
B
