Professional Teaching Knowledge
Exam Questions and Answers
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Reflective Practice - ANSWER - The process through which a teacher considers and
challenges their own practices with an intent to improve. Should pay particular
attention to issues of equity and bias, intention, and action.
Cultural Competence - ANSWER - The teacher's ability to understand and
appropriately respond to students' and families' unique cultural variables.
Action Research - ANSWER - The person conducting the research is the one taking
the action.
Continuous Improvement Cycle - ANSWER - Identify Needs, Create a Plan,
Implement the Plan, Monitor Progress
Achievement Data - ANSWER - Tells you how well students have performed on an
assessment. Examples are standardized test scores, classroom grades, formative
assessment scores, and lexile scores.
Demographic Data - ANSWER - Describes a population of people. Some examples
include the percentage of students by race, gender, disability status, socioeconomic
status, ethnicity, and ELL status.
Process Data - ANSWER - Tells you aboit the processes and programs of the school.
Some examples include student participation in clubs, sports, afterschool programs,
counseling programs, student support programs, peer mediation, and data related
to lesson planning and instructional framework implementation.
Perception Data - ANSWER - the data that describes people's opinions, or what they
think they know. Often comes from surveys
Exam Questions and Answers
100% Correct
Reflective Practice - ANSWER - The process through which a teacher considers and
challenges their own practices with an intent to improve. Should pay particular
attention to issues of equity and bias, intention, and action.
Cultural Competence - ANSWER - The teacher's ability to understand and
appropriately respond to students' and families' unique cultural variables.
Action Research - ANSWER - The person conducting the research is the one taking
the action.
Continuous Improvement Cycle - ANSWER - Identify Needs, Create a Plan,
Implement the Plan, Monitor Progress
Achievement Data - ANSWER - Tells you how well students have performed on an
assessment. Examples are standardized test scores, classroom grades, formative
assessment scores, and lexile scores.
Demographic Data - ANSWER - Describes a population of people. Some examples
include the percentage of students by race, gender, disability status, socioeconomic
status, ethnicity, and ELL status.
Process Data - ANSWER - Tells you aboit the processes and programs of the school.
Some examples include student participation in clubs, sports, afterschool programs,
counseling programs, student support programs, peer mediation, and data related
to lesson planning and instructional framework implementation.
Perception Data - ANSWER - the data that describes people's opinions, or what they
think they know. Often comes from surveys
