FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
questions with answers |\ |\
A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they
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could use the word HOMES to help them remember the names of
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the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
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The students quickly recognize that the first letters of the names
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of the lakes can be arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
memorizing information best exemplifies using |\ |\ |\ |\
A. an acronym
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B. chunking
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C. rehearsal
|\
D. rote - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
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During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes
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would it be appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended
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questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
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B. to encourage brainstorming
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C. to probe for more information
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D. to foster creativity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
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After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade
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language arts teacher consults a colleague about how to improve
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the quality of students' writing assignments. The teacher's
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,decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the
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following principles? |\
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
reflective practitioners. |\
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make
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decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement
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of desired outcomes.
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D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and
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practices. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A |\ |\ |\ |\
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end
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of a computer simulation activity to promote students'
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evaluation-level thinking? |\
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the
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simulation activity. |\
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
tell why they did or did not like the simulation activity.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
participated in the simulation activity. |\ |\ |\ |\
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they
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learned from the simulation activity. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B
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Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate
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their writing projects. The teacher observes a few students who
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
are artistically talented making rude comments about the
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drawings of their classmates who are less artistically inclined.
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The teacher immediately lets the rude students know that such
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
,behavior will not be tolerated. The best follow-up response from
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the teacher to this situation is to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Internet to illustrate their writing project
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
classmates who are less artistically inclined to help them create
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
better drawings. |\
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
talk with them about respecting others.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
behavior and enforce the consequences consistently - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔A |\
Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida
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Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct?
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A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue
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concerning a student |\ |\
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
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C. representing one's personal views as those or the school
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district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔C
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In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that
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focuses on using reading as the foundation to improve student
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
following ways would be best for promoting struggling middle
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
school readers' growth as effective and competent readers of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
expository text? |\
, A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
challenging assignments that are reading-intensive |\ |\ |\ |\
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
use different comprehension strategies and to repair
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
comprehension problems |\
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of skimming through every text that they plan to read before
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
actually reading it. |\ |\
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the content areas as much on their adherence to specific
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
processes as on the content of the final product - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔B |\
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
area learning for students in the class who have histories of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
limited academic success. To ensure fair and accurate
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the teacher to |\ |\
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
such as observations, interviews, test scores, and samples of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
daily work. |\
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
in assessing their acquisition of knowledge and skills. - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔C
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questions with answers |\ |\
A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
could use the word HOMES to help them remember the names of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
The students quickly recognize that the first letters of the names
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of the lakes can be arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
memorizing information best exemplifies using |\ |\ |\ |\
A. an acronym
|\ |\
B. chunking
|\
C. rehearsal
|\
D. rote - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
would it be appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
B. to encourage brainstorming
|\ |\ |\
C. to probe for more information
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
D. to foster creativity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
language arts teacher consults a colleague about how to improve
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the quality of students' writing assignments. The teacher's
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
,decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
following principles? |\
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
reflective practitioners. |\
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of desired outcomes.
|\ |\
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
practices. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A |\ |\ |\ |\
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of a computer simulation activity to promote students'
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
evaluation-level thinking? |\
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
simulation activity. |\
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
tell why they did or did not like the simulation activity.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
participated in the simulation activity. |\ |\ |\ |\
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
learned from the simulation activity. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔B
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
their writing projects. The teacher observes a few students who
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
are artistically talented making rude comments about the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
drawings of their classmates who are less artistically inclined.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
The teacher immediately lets the rude students know that such
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
,behavior will not be tolerated. The best follow-up response from
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the teacher to this situation is to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Internet to illustrate their writing project
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
classmates who are less artistically inclined to help them create
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
better drawings. |\
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
talk with them about respecting others.
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
behavior and enforce the consequences consistently - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔A |\
Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct?
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
concerning a student |\ |\
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
C. representing one's personal views as those or the school
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔C
|\ |\
In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
focuses on using reading as the foundation to improve student
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
following ways would be best for promoting struggling middle
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
school readers' growth as effective and competent readers of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
expository text? |\
, A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
challenging assignments that are reading-intensive |\ |\ |\ |\
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
use different comprehension strategies and to repair
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
comprehension problems |\
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
of skimming through every text that they plan to read before
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
actually reading it. |\ |\
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the content areas as much on their adherence to specific
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
processes as on the content of the final product - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔B |\
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
area learning for students in the class who have histories of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
limited academic success. To ensure fair and accurate
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
the teacher to |\ |\
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures,
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
such as observations, interviews, test scores, and samples of
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
daily work. |\
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
in assessing their acquisition of knowledge and skills. - CORRECT
|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
ANSWERS ✔✔C
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