ELEMENTARY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS METHODS C105 PRE ASSESSMENT
EXAM 2024/2025
Which characteristics of artful teachers contribute to student curiosity
and motivation in relation to arts education? - Precise Answer
✔✔Passion, openness, and confidence
A teacher promotes taking breaks in instruction where students jump up
and down, shake their limbs, and mimic animal voices.
How does this play contribute to children's development? - Precise
Answer ✔✔It alleviates stress.
An art teacher has redesigned a lesson plan that includes an assignment
in which students work in groups to create and present original
commercials. She plans to let the groups decide what the commercials
will advertise and will encourage students to use their own experiences
to make effective commercials. The students will create their own
schedules for completing the assignment and she has developed a rubric
for evaluating the results.
How does this lesson plan align to current research findings in student
development? - Precise Answer ✔✔Current research shows that
students learn best when they are given the opportunity to connect new
information to existing understandings.
A kindergarten teacher wants to prepare students for first grade
cognitively and socially while making each day fun.
,How could the teacher support this goal? - Precise Answer ✔✔By
having students make up rhyming games together using the names of
letters, numbers, or colors
How can teachers recognize expressions of creativity in children? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Look for children who can act out a story
Which are two effective activities for encouraging the development of
creativity in children? - Precise Answer ✔✔Have students theorize what
an unfamiliar object could be used for
Ask students to imagine a journey, such as a journey through a tree
What actions are part of the Responses and Solutions phase of the
creative problem solving process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Reflect and
evaluate, revise, and publish
A third-grade teacher would like to plan a lesson about folk tales and
story telling. The teacher wants to enhance creative thought and
expression in the class which includes several English Language
Learners (ELL).
How can the teacher meet both of these goals? - Precise Answer
✔✔Incorporate student storytelling related to their backgrounds as a
means of including drama, dance, art, and music responses
, What is an appropriate response to students' artistic expressions? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Ask the students to explain what they have created
A teacher observes that the students are happiest and most engaged
when they are given the opportunity to engage in creative role playing,
art projects, and music. The teacher includes these creative activities
every few weeks as a supplement to the lesson plans.
How does this teacher's attitude affect the creativity of his students? -
Precise Answer ✔✔The teacher's treatment of creative activities as
extra, not essential, will undermine the development of students'
creativity
The Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (CNAEA) K-4
standards call for students to accurately demonstrate
non-locomotor/axial movements and create a sequence with a beginning,
middle, and end.
Which teaching strategy fosters creative thought and expression for
students in this age group to meet all elements of the identified dance
standard? - Precise Answer ✔✔Implement the apply-practice-rehearse
method to prepare students to perform the difficult bending and
swinging dance steps in their upcoming dance routine
A teacher wants to encourage creativity and divergent thought while also
covering required content about Colonial America.
EXAM 2024/2025
Which characteristics of artful teachers contribute to student curiosity
and motivation in relation to arts education? - Precise Answer
✔✔Passion, openness, and confidence
A teacher promotes taking breaks in instruction where students jump up
and down, shake their limbs, and mimic animal voices.
How does this play contribute to children's development? - Precise
Answer ✔✔It alleviates stress.
An art teacher has redesigned a lesson plan that includes an assignment
in which students work in groups to create and present original
commercials. She plans to let the groups decide what the commercials
will advertise and will encourage students to use their own experiences
to make effective commercials. The students will create their own
schedules for completing the assignment and she has developed a rubric
for evaluating the results.
How does this lesson plan align to current research findings in student
development? - Precise Answer ✔✔Current research shows that
students learn best when they are given the opportunity to connect new
information to existing understandings.
A kindergarten teacher wants to prepare students for first grade
cognitively and socially while making each day fun.
,How could the teacher support this goal? - Precise Answer ✔✔By
having students make up rhyming games together using the names of
letters, numbers, or colors
How can teachers recognize expressions of creativity in children? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Look for children who can act out a story
Which are two effective activities for encouraging the development of
creativity in children? - Precise Answer ✔✔Have students theorize what
an unfamiliar object could be used for
Ask students to imagine a journey, such as a journey through a tree
What actions are part of the Responses and Solutions phase of the
creative problem solving process? - Precise Answer ✔✔Reflect and
evaluate, revise, and publish
A third-grade teacher would like to plan a lesson about folk tales and
story telling. The teacher wants to enhance creative thought and
expression in the class which includes several English Language
Learners (ELL).
How can the teacher meet both of these goals? - Precise Answer
✔✔Incorporate student storytelling related to their backgrounds as a
means of including drama, dance, art, and music responses
, What is an appropriate response to students' artistic expressions? -
Precise Answer ✔✔Ask the students to explain what they have created
A teacher observes that the students are happiest and most engaged
when they are given the opportunity to engage in creative role playing,
art projects, and music. The teacher includes these creative activities
every few weeks as a supplement to the lesson plans.
How does this teacher's attitude affect the creativity of his students? -
Precise Answer ✔✔The teacher's treatment of creative activities as
extra, not essential, will undermine the development of students'
creativity
The Consortium of National Arts Education Associations (CNAEA) K-4
standards call for students to accurately demonstrate
non-locomotor/axial movements and create a sequence with a beginning,
middle, and end.
Which teaching strategy fosters creative thought and expression for
students in this age group to meet all elements of the identified dance
standard? - Precise Answer ✔✔Implement the apply-practice-rehearse
method to prepare students to perform the difficult bending and
swinging dance steps in their upcoming dance routine
A teacher wants to encourage creativity and divergent thought while also
covering required content about Colonial America.
