EDU 200 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following statements accurately describes societal beliefs about teachers?
a) Most people believe that teachers play a very important role in our society
b) Most people believe that teachers are overpaid and under worked.
c) Most people believe that teaachers are under-qualified to teach our students
d) Most people believe that the teaching field is etraneous and unnecessary - Answers
:a) Most people believe that teachers play a very important role in our society
In a recent study, parents identified the most serious problems facing our schools as
a) Violence
b) Low test scores
c) Poor teacher quality
d) Lack of financial support - Answers :d) lack of financial support
After three years of teaching, the percentage of teachers that will have left the
profession is
a)10
b)20
c)30
d)40 - Answers :d) 40
Your first three years of teaching are referred as
a) mentoring
b) induction
c) professional development
d) tenure - Answers :b) induction
Renewal of teachers licenses usually requires all of the following EXCEPT
a) coaching/sponsorship activities
b) completion of several years of successful practice
c) continuing professional development activities
d) masters degree or teaching portfolio - Answers :a) coaching/sponsorship activities
Statements about what teachers should know and be able to do as a novice teachers
are
a) objectives
b)goals
c) portfolios
d) standards - Answers :d) standards
Teachers usually leave the classroom for all the following reasons EXCEPT
a) returning to school for graduate work
b) deciding to pursue a career that pays more
c) poor working conditions
, d) numerous opportunities for upward mobility - Answers :d) numerous opportunities for
upward mobility
Nearly half of the teachers hired in a given year come from the ranks of
a) experienced teachers moving from district to district
b) experience teachers reentering the field after having left
c) newly trained first-time teachers.
d) other professionals, e.g. engineers, musicians, etc who now wish to teach - Answers
:c) newly trained first-time teachers
an outline of the minimum and maximum salary for several leves of study beyond the
bachelors degee and for each year of teaching experiences is a
a) teaching contract
b) guarantee of employment
c) salary schedule
d) human resources agreement - Answers :c) salary schedule
A system of professional licensing based on the use of multiple assessments that
measure the candidates knowledge, skills, and dispositions to determine whether he or
she can perform effectively is
a)performance-based licensing
b)alternative licensing
c) emergency certification
d) additional certification - Answers :a) performance-based licensing
although it is believed that all people, regardless of their time and place in history have
cared for their young and prepared them for life, the greatest impetus for a more formal
type of education was the development of
a)suburbs
b) agriculture
c) oral traditions
d) written communication - Answers :d) written communication
The earliest known roots of the humnist movement in education are found in the writings
of
a) socrates
b) plato
c)arisotle
d)quintilian - Answers :d) quintilian
The period during which the importance of human learning and knowledge was
deemphasized in western civilization is called the
a) reformation
b)dark ages
c) renaissance
d) enlightenment - Answers :b) dark ages
Which of the following statements accurately describes societal beliefs about teachers?
a) Most people believe that teachers play a very important role in our society
b) Most people believe that teachers are overpaid and under worked.
c) Most people believe that teaachers are under-qualified to teach our students
d) Most people believe that the teaching field is etraneous and unnecessary - Answers
:a) Most people believe that teachers play a very important role in our society
In a recent study, parents identified the most serious problems facing our schools as
a) Violence
b) Low test scores
c) Poor teacher quality
d) Lack of financial support - Answers :d) lack of financial support
After three years of teaching, the percentage of teachers that will have left the
profession is
a)10
b)20
c)30
d)40 - Answers :d) 40
Your first three years of teaching are referred as
a) mentoring
b) induction
c) professional development
d) tenure - Answers :b) induction
Renewal of teachers licenses usually requires all of the following EXCEPT
a) coaching/sponsorship activities
b) completion of several years of successful practice
c) continuing professional development activities
d) masters degree or teaching portfolio - Answers :a) coaching/sponsorship activities
Statements about what teachers should know and be able to do as a novice teachers
are
a) objectives
b)goals
c) portfolios
d) standards - Answers :d) standards
Teachers usually leave the classroom for all the following reasons EXCEPT
a) returning to school for graduate work
b) deciding to pursue a career that pays more
c) poor working conditions
, d) numerous opportunities for upward mobility - Answers :d) numerous opportunities for
upward mobility
Nearly half of the teachers hired in a given year come from the ranks of
a) experienced teachers moving from district to district
b) experience teachers reentering the field after having left
c) newly trained first-time teachers.
d) other professionals, e.g. engineers, musicians, etc who now wish to teach - Answers
:c) newly trained first-time teachers
an outline of the minimum and maximum salary for several leves of study beyond the
bachelors degee and for each year of teaching experiences is a
a) teaching contract
b) guarantee of employment
c) salary schedule
d) human resources agreement - Answers :c) salary schedule
A system of professional licensing based on the use of multiple assessments that
measure the candidates knowledge, skills, and dispositions to determine whether he or
she can perform effectively is
a)performance-based licensing
b)alternative licensing
c) emergency certification
d) additional certification - Answers :a) performance-based licensing
although it is believed that all people, regardless of their time and place in history have
cared for their young and prepared them for life, the greatest impetus for a more formal
type of education was the development of
a)suburbs
b) agriculture
c) oral traditions
d) written communication - Answers :d) written communication
The earliest known roots of the humnist movement in education are found in the writings
of
a) socrates
b) plato
c)arisotle
d)quintilian - Answers :d) quintilian
The period during which the importance of human learning and knowledge was
deemphasized in western civilization is called the
a) reformation
b)dark ages
c) renaissance
d) enlightenment - Answers :b) dark ages
