2022 PPR EXAM PRACTICE 96 Questions with Complete Solutions

2022 PPR EXAM PRACTICE 96 Questions with Complete Solutions Mr. Jimenez, a high school math teacher recognizes that one of his students seems to be left out a lot when students are choosing partners or groups and picked on frequently for being different. Why is this situation particularly harmful in a high school setting? - Answer- The influence of peers is strongest in adolescence. Providing students with various tools based on their level of understanding of a topic is an example of which instructional strategy? -Answer- Scaffolding Allowing prekindergarten students free choice in their learning centers helps develop their decision-making skills. Which of the following will also help them develop decisionmaking skills? -Answer- Including a variety of appropriate materials. Mrs. Toups, a 5th grade teacher in an advanced math classroom is using an online stock market simulation to teach her students about economics. Students have $100,000 to invest in the stock simulation and they must track their investments overtime. During the project, her students will work independently to address the economics and technology objectives. Many of her students are unfamiliar with the stock market, so this is a challenge that her project faces. To prepare, Mrs. Toups creates the following lesson sequence for the project: Days 1-3: provide project details and background information about the stock market and the online simulation. Days 4-5: Facilitate the selection of stocks through internet research. Days 6-18: Support students as they track their investments using a spreadsheet. Days 19-20: Present an evaluation of the success of the students' investment strategies, using graphs created in a spreadsheet program. Based on the sequence of the lesson, when would it be most beneficial to students to provide them instruction on a decision-making strategy? -Answer- Days 4-5 After a long research project, a teacher has her students fill out a post project report that looks like the following: Post Project Report: Write and submit by the end of the Day 16 a one-page report that answers the following questions: What part of this project was most challenging? What was the most interesting part of the project? What do you wish you had done differently? Which of the following skills are the students developing as the complete the post project report? -Answer- Reflection Mr. Givens has assigned a research project to the students in his senior government class regarding voting and how the popular vote is different than the electoral vote. Following the research portion of the assignment, he requires students to hold a mock election for the neighboring elementary school. The primary purpose of the mock election is for the high school students to develop which of the following skills? -Answer- Application Mrs. Valle frequently uses independent work stations in her first-grade classroom. The primary purpose of the workstations is to create an environment in which her students can choose which projects they want to work on, complete and share with the class. Even though Mrs. Valle has carefully planned what the students will do at each station, many students seem unsure of what to do. What should Mrs. Valle do to help her students understand how to work independently at the workstations? -Answer- Have student volunteers role-play how to work in the stations. Mrs. McDowell notices some abrupt changes in one of her 4th grade students, Lainey. Though Lainey has never had behavior issues, she is now consistently disrupting class, and making significantly lower grades than she used to. Mrs. McDowell has also noticed that Lainey has been hanging around a different group of students, many of whom have a history of behavior issues like the ones Lainey is now exhibiting. What is the best initial response for Mrs. McDowell? -Answer- Discuss her concerns with Lainey in a firm but caring manner, while gathering information so she can better assist her. Ms. Davis is teaching her class a lesson in the science lab. Before she lets them begin their group work, she goes over the proper procedures for gathering necessary lab supplies and returning them to the proper place after use. The primary reason she explains these procedures is to -Answer- Promote students' organizational skills. Mrs. Peterson has a classroom made up of general education students, students with disabilities, and English Learners. Which teaching strategy would best benefit the English Learners? -Answer- Using visuals in combination with oral directions. Zoe is a 4th-grade student who really enjoys collecting, caring for animals, and classifying items. What type of intelligence is Zoe expressing? -Answer- Naturalistic Mr. Jones creates a menu of assignments for students to select from to determine how well they have learned the material from the previous unit on Texas History. The primary value of this approach is that it allows the teacher to -Answer- address the various learning styles in the classroom. Yeung Ma is an English learner who demonstrates little or no ability to use English in writing. Yeung Ma uses occasional high-frequency words in her writing although they do not create meaning. Which of the following best identifies Yeung's level of English language proficiency in writing? -Answer- Beginning What characteristics are you most likely to see in students at the intermediate level of English-language proficiency? -Answer- Exhibiting errors that may hinder communication when using less familiar or complex English. Marco is an English-language learner whose writing skills are comparable to his grade level peers. He is able to write for formal and informal purposes based on the audience. What level of English-language proficiency is Marco in writing? -Answer- AdvancedHigh Mr. Lunsford has a culturally diverse classroom. He is aware that students who are given opportunities to understand and accept other students' differences will not only learn about other cultures, but they will also be better prepared to participate in a heterogeneous society. What is one way he can facilitate his students to understand and accept each other? -Answer- Plan learning activities that allow for culturally diverse student groups to collaborate. Mr. Destin is a new teacher that is struggling with timing his lessons correctly. Some days he has too much time left at the end of class and other days he seems to run out of time. What is a strategy that Mr. Destin can use to be better prepared for this situation? -Answer- Be prepared with extra learning activities for the days that his lessons move faster than he is expecting. What is the value of building in time for discussion at the end of a lesson instead of teaching right up to the bell? -Answer- Assessing what students have learned and preparing for where to begin the next day. Many of Ms. Morton's 4th grade students did not complete this week's homework on long division. When she looked into the issue, she found that many of the students didn't complete the homework because they didn't understand it once they got home. What is the best first step to addressing this issue? -Answer- Reteaching concepts that challenge students, by reviewing examples. Students at an elementary school use an online, interactive program that allows them to work on skills in their areas of weakness and progress at their own pace. What is the main advantage of using this type of program? -Answer- It provides students with individualized practice. A middle school literature class is doing a group research project. Each group selects a folktale based on the Snow-White theme and researches the customs and culture of the country from which the folktale was taken. The primary benefit of the lesson is to develop the students' ability to -Answer- have a multicultural learning experience Miss Scott, a 2nd-grade teacher, creates and administers a middle of the year math assessment that she gives to all of her students. She does not use this assessment as a grade. What is the purpose of giving this assessment? -Answer- She uses the information to see the students strengths and weakness. Ms. Tran teaches her 3rd grade math students about friction by giving them ramps, toy cars, tape measures, and different floor surfaces. Students will collect data about the different distances the cars travel on the different types of surfaces to better understand the concept of friction between the car's wheels and the floor. By providing this type of activity, Ms. Tran shows an understanding of how to -Answer- Engage students in active learning. In Mrs. Will's class students seem to be struggling with the retention of the content. At the end of the lesson, Mrs. Will asks questions regarding what she taught at the beginning of class and the students seem to have forgotten although they are able to remember this material taught at the end of class. This is known as the -AnswerRecency Effect In a science classroom with several English-language learners, a teacher names, labels and models the use of each piece of equipment needed to complete the experiment. The teacher is primarily including which of the following linguistic accommodations in the instruction? -Answer- Incorporating A 4th grade math teacher asks her students to find the area of a rectangle. She then asks them to draw a rectangle twice as large as the first and find the area of the second shape. She then has the students respond to the following questions, "What happens to the area of the rectangle when the size is doubled?" This best demonstrates the teacher's understanding of which of the following learning theories? -AnswerConstructivist A middle school Language Arts teacher is wanting to scaffold the reading of nonfiction texts for her English-language Learners who are at the beginning level of Englishlanguage proficiency. The best way to achieve this is for her to provide which of the following scaffolds for the students? -Answer- Adapted texts that will reduce the amount of reading. In all of the 3rd-grade math classes at Batterman Elementary math fact quizzes given every Friday that allow students to practice their math facts on a regular interval throughout the year. This style of practicing information over time is known as -Answerdistributed practice. Ms. Friedman's kindergarten class requires that the students work in independent work stations during part of their math instruction. What is the main benefit of incorporating visuals that indicate where center materials should be placed? -Answer- It teaches organizational skills. Mrs. Boyd is aware that her first-grade students are very concrete thinkers. She works hard to make sure that she is using her understanding of their development as she prepares her lesson. Which of the following would be useful for her to include in her math lesson on addition? -Answer- Using manipulatives to solve the addition problems. At the beginning of each day, Mrs. Kwan prepares her classroom so that she is ready for each of her lessons throughout the day. She keeps all of her materials in the location that she plans to use them and always has extra copies made of any material she is planning to use. Her extra effort in the morning saves her instructional time during the days. Mrs. Kwan is an excellent example of what type of skill? -Answer- Organizational skills Ms. Richardson's 5th grade GT students are working on a long-term research project. She requires them to finish and submit the project in stages. Which of the following would best support the students in completing each stage of the project in a timely manner? -Answer- Establishing guidelines for each stage with completion dates. When reading a story aloud to her class, Ms. O'Neal uses different voices for each character. Which of the following principles of effective teaching does Ms. O'Neal best demonstrate? -Answer- Using enthusiasm to promote student engagement Mrs. Garnett, a 5th grade Language Arts teacher is planning a long-term research project for her students, that will require them to work together in groups. When she organizes the groups, what is the best course of action so that she is fostering a successful collaboration among group members? -Answer- Asking each group to draft a work plan that includes responsibilities to review with the teacher. Inappropriate interactions among students can lead to disorder and hostility. How does the effective teacher quickly address these potentially harmful interactions? -AnswerConsistently enforcing behavior standards and implementing conflict resolution strategies. When having students work in groups, what is the best way to promote equal contributions among group members? -Answer- Providing specific tasks related to the activity to each group member. Mrs. Luther has set up the following procedures in his classroom: Use hand signals to ask to use the restroom. Do not ask to leave the classroom during whole group time. If finished with your classwork before others, read a book or work on something from your incomplete work folder. All of these are ways Mrs. Luther is working to reduce ______________. -AnswerInterruptions Mrs. Owallobe is working on creating a schedule for her kindergarten class. Which of the following is the least important consideration when making the schedule? -AnswerMaking sure that PE is before lunch so students will have a stro