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PLT: Grades K-6 (5622) Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Zone of Proximal Development - answer✔Students learn best in a social context in which a
teacher teaches the students something they could not learn on their own. A teacher must
determine what a student can do independently and then provide the student with
opportunities.
Achievement tests - answer✔Measure mastery of skills. A teacher can use the results of the
test to determine whether the student is on grade level.
Auditory-Processing problem - answer✔Difficulty remembering information and trouble
following directions
Research about bullying consistently shows that boys are more likely to bully others and to use
physical aggression. - answer✔Bullying Research
Classical Conditioning
Ivan Pavlov - answer✔A learning process that occurs through associations between an
environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.
Explains why some students show a particular dislike of certain subjects that continue
throughout their academic career.
Constructivist Learning - answer✔Students build upon prior knowledge to construct new
meaning.
The roles of the teacher are to facilitate interactive, discovery learning and to avoid direct
instruction and passive learning.
True - answer✔Under copyright laws, teachers may not make copies of music to be performed
outside the classroom by students.
Criterion-referenced tests - answer✔Are used for assessing student mastery of specific
concepts or skills.
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1. Identify the lesson's objective
2. Develop assessment criteria
3. Choose instructional activities - answer✔Teacher Planning Instruction (3 steps)
Analytic scoring rubrics - answer✔Used to evaluate specific criteria the students must
incorporate in an assignment.
Mentorship - answer✔One-to-One Support between new teachers and the school
Standard Deviation - answer✔A measure of how spread out, or bunched together, the numbers
are in some data set.
"Why do you think...?" - answer✔Which question best promotes the highest level of student
thinking skills?
Holistic Scoring - answer✔Used to give students a single, overall score for an assignment as a
whole.
Subject-specific professional organizations - answer✔Best way to improve content knowledge
on a subject?
Percentiles - answer✔Rank an individual's score among the scores of a specific population.
KWL Chart - answer✔A graphic organizer that encourages students to consider what they know
about a topic and what they want to learn about the topic before beginning a unit of study, and
then record what they learned about the topic after the lesson.
Providing students with instructional choices - answer✔One way to increases students'
motivation and achievement.
Request a meeting with the principal to discuss how to manage the problem - answer✔If you
are having an issue with your mentor the first thing you should do is...
Student Motivation - answer✔Engagement of students and student success lead to.....
A well-stocked and well-organized classroom library - answer✔Teaching strategy for motivating
elementary students to read recreationally?
The No Child Left Behind Act - answer✔Which of the following requires that public schools
provide increased accountability measured by the administration of standardized tests?