FTCE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PRACTICE
TEST 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED 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. Answer: 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.. Answer: 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.. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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.. Answer: C
◉ After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl,
is frowning. The teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following
exchange occurs:
TEST 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED 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. Answer: 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.. Answer: 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.. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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. Answer: 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.. Answer: C
◉ After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl,
is frowning. The teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following
exchange occurs:
