ABCTE PTK question n answers graded A+ 2024/2025

ABCTE PTKA group of students wants to produce and electronic magazine that publishes original student writing and art. Their adviser is planning a unit to train them how to use a word-processing application to create pages that include features such as images, multi-column layouts, sidebars, headers, footers, links, and page backgrounds. Which of the following would be the BEST culminating activity for this portion of the training? - correct answer Small teams producing a document under proctored conditions, using specified features, and within a time limit. Why? The purpose of the training is to prepare students to apply what they learn. The team and time limit conditions make the performance more realistic; the whole activity promotes retaining and transferring what has been learned. Which of the following is MOST likely to promote effective transfer of knowledge to students? - correct answer Having students work on their own with specific information related to a topic before giving an organizing lecture. Why? Studies indicate that topics need to be organized and connected in order to promote transfer of knowledge, but that a larger number of topics covered quickly will hinder student transfer because students have too little time to connect and organize the information. Introducing organizational structure early makes student learning difficult in that they first need specific information about the topic before thy organizational structure can make sense and be remembered. Students are about to take a paper and pencil test. If there is time for only one of the following activities, which would BEST prepare students for the test? - correct answer Students should make a chart of the important topics with notes on subtopics below each. Why? Organizational structures help students to connect and remember. How should a teacher generally begin almost every class? - correct answer By telling students what they will be covering that day. Why? Telling students what they will be covering helps focus students' attention. A teacher should remind students to pay attention if she notices that their attention is wandering, but she need not start every class with this reminder. Reviewing skills is helpful on occasion, but not in every class. Consider the following question asked by a first grade teacher: 'What do the three stories we have read by Tomie de Paola have in common?' - correct answer Analysis of the separate stores and comparison between them. Why? This question utilizes comparisons, which is part of the fourth level of Bloom's Taxonomy, analysis. The teacher is looking to see which students are able to think of all three stories at the same time and make comparisons between them. In order to use an inductive sequence for teaching about World War II, which of the following would be the BEST way for a class to work? - correct answer Examine events leading up to the war and develop a general model of world war in the process. Why? Induction is the process of building a general model. Given the following set of scores on standardized test, which choice most closely approximates the difference between the mean and median of the set: 89, 65, 77, 93, 80, 87, 79 - correct answer 1 Why? The mean of the data is 81.43 and the median is 80. The difference between them is 1.43, which is closer to 1. A 5th grade student has just finished a three-week unit on the American Revolution in social studies. Which strategy would be BEST to use to culminate the unit? - correct answer Give a free-response test on the 'big ideas' of the unit and have students choose a project from a list of eight projects. Why? In order to know whether the learning objectives of the unit have been met, the objectives must be measured. A test on the major concepts of the American Revolution achieves that goal. The project, from a limited number of choices that relate to the objectives, gives students another way to show what they have learned. Which of the following language arts activities requires the highest order of thinking skills? - correct answer Imagining and writing a new ending to a novel. Why? Imagining and writing a new ending to a story is an example of the synthesis level of thinking on Bloom's Taxonomy. The 6 levels of thinking skills are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation. Curriculum planning is a major aspect of a teacher's job. Which teaching practice listed below will BEST help students to achieve grade-level outcomes? - correct answer Using the state curriculum at the beginning of the school year to determine the learning objectives for the year, which are then incorporated units units of study. A 9 year old student with diagnosed ADD is in a regular education classroom. He has average ability in math. Which strategy below will MOST effectively help him memorize his multiplication facts? - correct