FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 with Verified
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A social studies teacher asks the students in the B. Have a whole-class discussion in which
class how they could use the word HOMES to students are asked to tell why they did or did not
help them remember the names of the Great like the simulation activity.
Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and C. Have students write a paragraph explaining
Superior. The students quickly recognize that the how they participated in the simulation activity.
first letters of the names of the lakes can be D. Have students work in groups to make a list of
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to concepts they learned from the simulation
memorizing information best exemplifies using activity. - ANSWERS - B
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal Students in a fourth-grade class are making
D. rote - ANSWERS - A drawings to illustrate their writing projects. The
teacher observes a few students who are
artistically talented making rude comments about
During a class discussion, for which of the the drawings of their classmates who are less
following purposes would it be appropriate for a artistically inclined. The teacher immediately lets
teacher to ask a closed-ended questions? the rude students know that such behavior will
A. to check for agreement among students not be tolerated. The best follow-up response
B. to encourage brainstorming from the teacher to this situation is to
C. to probe for more information A. allow students the option of downloading free
D. to foster creativity - ANSWERS - A clip art from the Internet to illustrate their writing
project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one
After reading essays students have written, a with their classmates who are less artistically
sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a inclined to help them create better drawings.
colleague about how to improve the quality of C. have students who make rude comments stay
students' writing assignments. The teacher's after class and talk with them about respecting
decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates others.
which of the following principles? D. hold a class meeting to establish
A. Teachers need to understand the importance consequences for rude behavior and enforce the
of being reflective practitioners. consequences consistently - ANSWERS - A
B. Teachers should actively engage in group
processes to make decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage Which of the following would constitute a violation
student achievement of desired outcomes. of the Florida Code of Ethics and Principles of
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current Professional Conduct?
knowledge and practices. - ANSWERS - A A. disagreeing with the principal about a
discipline issue concerning a student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic
Which of the following actions should the teacher to students
take at the end of a computer simulation activity C. representing one's personal views as those or
to promote students' evaluation-level thinking? the school district
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same
encountered during the simulation activity. school - ANSWERS - C
,FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 with Verified
Answers Graded A+
that a student, Carl, is frowning. The teacher
walks over to Carl's desk and the following
In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed exchange occurs:
legislation that focuses on using reading as the Teacher: Do you have a question about the
foundation to improve student achievement in all assignment?
subject areas. In general, which of the following Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
ways would be best for promoting struggling Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk
middle school readers' growth as effective and about it?
competent readers of expository text? In her interaction with Carl, which of the following
A. regularly require struggling readers to do elements of effective communication did the
academically challenging assignments that are teacher exhibit?
reading-intensive A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn paraphrasing
when and how to use different comprehension B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a
strategies and to repair comprehension problems reflective listener
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a C. being a thoughtful questioner and
regular practice of skimming through every text paraphrasing
that they plan to read before actually reading it. D. redirecting and paraphrasing -
D. base struggling readers' grades on research ANSWERS - B
assignments in the content areas as much on
their adherence to specific processes as on the
content of the final product - ANSWERS - B A high school calculus teacher decides to attend
a workshop on a sophisticated mathematical
software program at a state conference. The
A teacher is concerned about appropriate teacher's probable purpose for attending the
assessment of content area learning for students workshop is to
in the class who have histories of limited A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
academic success. To ensure fair and accurate B. participate in collaborative decision making.
assessment of these students, it would be most C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly
appropriate for the teacher to defined goals.
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills
assessing their progress. and knowledge - ANSWERS - D
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-
challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal An interdisciplinary team of middle school
assessment measures, such as observations, teachers wants to develop lessons that promote
interviews, test scores, and samples of daily students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the
work. following is most likely to promote the higher-
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self- order thinking skills of middle school students?
assessment procedures in assessing their A. in math, filling in the missing components of a
acquisition of knowledge and skills. - pattern
ANSWERS - C B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing
significant events of a historical period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem -
, FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 with Verified
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ANSWERS -C A. Inappropriate, because the suspect -
ANSWERS - B
A first-year third-grade teacher has received her
class roster for the upcoming school year. She Which of the following strategies would be best
notes that the 19 students in her class are for developing a fourth-grade student's reading
culturally diverse and that two students are fluency?
receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) A. Encourage the student to reread books written
services - one is visually impaired, and the other at the student's independent reading level.
has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom B. Encourage the student to memorize common
layout, it is most important for the teacher to phonics rules to improve decoding skills.
consider the C. Have a peer give constructive feedback after
A. materials and resources available in her listening to the student read aloud.
classroom. D. Have the student practice blending onsets and
B. availability of assistive technology equipment rimes for word families quickly and accurately. -
in the school. ANSWERS - A
C. potential discipline problems she might
encounter with such a varied group of students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to After a cooperative learning activity in language
use in her classroom. - ANSWERS - D arts, the teacher asks students to determine
whether the activity was successful and to reflect
on their roles and participation. Which of the
Ms. Kim, a middle school teacher, overhears two following is a benefit of having students do this
students, Jimmy and Curtis, talking about drugs. assignment?
The teacher confronts the students to discuss A. It will allow the teacher to assess students'
what she heard. Following is an excerpt from mastery of the language arts objective for the
their discussion: cooperative learning activity.
Ms. Kim: Jimmy, I want to talk to you about what B. It will promote self-reflection and self-
you said to Curtis about needing some drugs. assessment on the part of the student.
Jimmy: Ms. Kim, you got it all wrong. I was just C. It will promote a healthy, competitive spirit
kiddin' around. I don't do drugs. among students.
Curtis: That's right, Ms. Kim. Jimmy doesn't mess D. It will allow the teacher to identify those
with drugs. students who exhibited leadership skills. -
Ms. Kim: I'm not so sure. Some of your other ANSWERS - B
teachers have told me that your grades have
dropped a lot since school started, Jimmy. Aren't
you failing math and English? A social studies teacher uses a town controversy
Jimmy: Well, I'm not doing real good in school over whether a large oil company should be
right now, but it's not because of drugs. You permitted to drill on the site of a historic landmark
gotta believe me, Ms. Kim as the basis for a discussion in class. The
Ms. Kim: Well, you two go on to your next class.
teacher poses the following question to the class:
I'll talk to you about this later. "Should preservation of historic landmarks stand
in the way of economic development? Why or
When Ms. Kim discussed Jimmy's grades in front why not?" The teacher's questions are probably
of Curtis, her actions were
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A social studies teacher asks the students in the B. Have a whole-class discussion in which
class how they could use the word HOMES to students are asked to tell why they did or did not
help them remember the names of the Great like the simulation activity.
Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and C. Have students write a paragraph explaining
Superior. The students quickly recognize that the how they participated in the simulation activity.
first letters of the names of the lakes can be D. Have students work in groups to make a list of
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to concepts they learned from the simulation
memorizing information best exemplifies using activity. - ANSWERS - B
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal Students in a fourth-grade class are making
D. rote - ANSWERS - A drawings to illustrate their writing projects. The
teacher observes a few students who are
artistically talented making rude comments about
During a class discussion, for which of the the drawings of their classmates who are less
following purposes would it be appropriate for a artistically inclined. The teacher immediately lets
teacher to ask a closed-ended questions? the rude students know that such behavior will
A. to check for agreement among students not be tolerated. The best follow-up response
B. to encourage brainstorming from the teacher to this situation is to
C. to probe for more information A. allow students the option of downloading free
D. to foster creativity - ANSWERS - A clip art from the Internet to illustrate their writing
project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one
After reading essays students have written, a with their classmates who are less artistically
sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a inclined to help them create better drawings.
colleague about how to improve the quality of C. have students who make rude comments stay
students' writing assignments. The teacher's after class and talk with them about respecting
decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates others.
which of the following principles? D. hold a class meeting to establish
A. Teachers need to understand the importance consequences for rude behavior and enforce the
of being reflective practitioners. consequences consistently - ANSWERS - A
B. Teachers should actively engage in group
processes to make decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage Which of the following would constitute a violation
student achievement of desired outcomes. of the Florida Code of Ethics and Principles of
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current Professional Conduct?
knowledge and practices. - ANSWERS - A A. disagreeing with the principal about a
discipline issue concerning a student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic
Which of the following actions should the teacher to students
take at the end of a computer simulation activity C. representing one's personal views as those or
to promote students' evaluation-level thinking? the school district
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same
encountered during the simulation activity. school - ANSWERS - C
,FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 with Verified
Answers Graded A+
that a student, Carl, is frowning. The teacher
walks over to Carl's desk and the following
In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed exchange occurs:
legislation that focuses on using reading as the Teacher: Do you have a question about the
foundation to improve student achievement in all assignment?
subject areas. In general, which of the following Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
ways would be best for promoting struggling Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk
middle school readers' growth as effective and about it?
competent readers of expository text? In her interaction with Carl, which of the following
A. regularly require struggling readers to do elements of effective communication did the
academically challenging assignments that are teacher exhibit?
reading-intensive A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn paraphrasing
when and how to use different comprehension B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a
strategies and to repair comprehension problems reflective listener
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a C. being a thoughtful questioner and
regular practice of skimming through every text paraphrasing
that they plan to read before actually reading it. D. redirecting and paraphrasing -
D. base struggling readers' grades on research ANSWERS - B
assignments in the content areas as much on
their adherence to specific processes as on the
content of the final product - ANSWERS - B A high school calculus teacher decides to attend
a workshop on a sophisticated mathematical
software program at a state conference. The
A teacher is concerned about appropriate teacher's probable purpose for attending the
assessment of content area learning for students workshop is to
in the class who have histories of limited A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
academic success. To ensure fair and accurate B. participate in collaborative decision making.
assessment of these students, it would be most C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly
appropriate for the teacher to defined goals.
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills
assessing their progress. and knowledge - ANSWERS - D
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-
challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal An interdisciplinary team of middle school
assessment measures, such as observations, teachers wants to develop lessons that promote
interviews, test scores, and samples of daily students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the
work. following is most likely to promote the higher-
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self- order thinking skills of middle school students?
assessment procedures in assessing their A. in math, filling in the missing components of a
acquisition of knowledge and skills. - pattern
ANSWERS - C B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing
significant events of a historical period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem -
, FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 with Verified
Answers Graded A+
ANSWERS -C A. Inappropriate, because the suspect -
ANSWERS - B
A first-year third-grade teacher has received her
class roster for the upcoming school year. She Which of the following strategies would be best
notes that the 19 students in her class are for developing a fourth-grade student's reading
culturally diverse and that two students are fluency?
receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) A. Encourage the student to reread books written
services - one is visually impaired, and the other at the student's independent reading level.
has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom B. Encourage the student to memorize common
layout, it is most important for the teacher to phonics rules to improve decoding skills.
consider the C. Have a peer give constructive feedback after
A. materials and resources available in her listening to the student read aloud.
classroom. D. Have the student practice blending onsets and
B. availability of assistive technology equipment rimes for word families quickly and accurately. -
in the school. ANSWERS - A
C. potential discipline problems she might
encounter with such a varied group of students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to After a cooperative learning activity in language
use in her classroom. - ANSWERS - D arts, the teacher asks students to determine
whether the activity was successful and to reflect
on their roles and participation. Which of the
Ms. Kim, a middle school teacher, overhears two following is a benefit of having students do this
students, Jimmy and Curtis, talking about drugs. assignment?
The teacher confronts the students to discuss A. It will allow the teacher to assess students'
what she heard. Following is an excerpt from mastery of the language arts objective for the
their discussion: cooperative learning activity.
Ms. Kim: Jimmy, I want to talk to you about what B. It will promote self-reflection and self-
you said to Curtis about needing some drugs. assessment on the part of the student.
Jimmy: Ms. Kim, you got it all wrong. I was just C. It will promote a healthy, competitive spirit
kiddin' around. I don't do drugs. among students.
Curtis: That's right, Ms. Kim. Jimmy doesn't mess D. It will allow the teacher to identify those
with drugs. students who exhibited leadership skills. -
Ms. Kim: I'm not so sure. Some of your other ANSWERS - B
teachers have told me that your grades have
dropped a lot since school started, Jimmy. Aren't
you failing math and English? A social studies teacher uses a town controversy
Jimmy: Well, I'm not doing real good in school over whether a large oil company should be
right now, but it's not because of drugs. You permitted to drill on the site of a historic landmark
gotta believe me, Ms. Kim as the basis for a discussion in class. The
Ms. Kim: Well, you two go on to your next class.
teacher poses the following question to the class:
I'll talk to you about this later. "Should preservation of historic landmarks stand
in the way of economic development? Why or
When Ms. Kim discussed Jimmy's grades in front why not?" The teacher's questions are probably
of Curtis, her actions were
