PECT PRACTICE EXAM TIPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔What is the best thing to do if a parent of one of your students tells you they lost
their job? - ✔✔Tell them about opportunities in the community that may help them.
✔✔What is the best way to get parents involved in their education? -
✔✔Newsletters/frequent communication from the beginning of the year (Open House)
✔✔What is a summative assessment? - ✔✔Summative assessment (or summative
evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarizes the development
of learners at a particular time. One of the goals of summative assessment is to
evaluate student learning, for example, at the end of an instructional unit by comparing
it against some standard or benchmark. Examples of summative assessment include:
end of unit tests or projects, end of course grades, portfolios, and standardized
assessments.
✔✔*A student in your class has been comparing his work to his peers and is not happy
with his own work. What would be the benefit of a portfolio assessment? - ✔✔To help
him keep track of his own progress.
✔✔As a teacher, one of the main benefits of meeting with students to review artifacts
that were placed in their portfolios is? - ✔✔to see all of the student's achievements over
time.
✔✔What is a benefit of a teacher joining a Pennsylvania State Educator Program? -
✔✔To connect with other teachers.
✔✔What are the benefits of play for children? - ✔✔It promotes cognitive thinking.
✔✔What is the primary purpose of summative assessments? - ✔✔They generate data
for achievements relative to standards, they are "once and done" assessments at the
end of a unit/year.
✔✔What is a formative assessment? - ✔✔Formative assessments allow teachers to
adapt teaching strategies to best fit individual students.
Summative assessments generate data for achievements relative to standards.
✔✔A child is constantly asking questions. Using the psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson,
what should you do as a teacher? - ✔✔Answer all questions and encourage the student
to encounter the world around them.
✔✔You are teaching a unit on fairy tales. What would be an effective way to engage the
community?
, a. Put posters of fairy tales around the community.
b. Invite parents and community members to come in and read to the class.
c. Read books written by different community members.
d. Have the students illustrate their own fairy tale. - ✔✔b. Invite parents and community
members to come in and read to the class.
✔✔How do you promote a positive classroom environment?
a. Provide activities that meet different learning abilities, interests, and goals.
b. Plan lessons so that they tie directly into state standards.
c. Be sure to display environmental print around the classroom.
d. Utilize direct instruction to teach new content and review old material. - ✔✔a. Provide
activities that meet different learning abilities, interests, and goals.
✔✔You have an ESL student who recently scored well on a recent English exam. He
also communicates well in social settings. However, he is struggling with assignments
and does not participate in class discussions. Why?
a. He is fully proficient, but unhappy in school.
b. He has limited proficiency.
c. He is lacking self-confidence.
He cannot understand the directions. - ✔✔c. He is lacking self-confidence.
✔✔You have a struggling student in your class. When must you receive parent
permission?
a. Before taking anecdotal notes.
b. Before trying various interventions in the classroom.
c. Before allowing the child to work with the special education teacher.
d. Before sending the child to the principal. - ✔✔c. Before allowing the child to work with
the special education teacher.
✔✔You are teaching and introducing new concepts to a group of second graders. What
is an effective way to scaffold?
a. Place the students in heterogeneous groups.
b. Allow the students to choose their activity.
c. Watch a video to support the new concepts.
d. Model the new skills for the students - ✔✔d. Model the new skills for the students
✔✔You are conducting an experiment in which you have a car with round wheels and a
car with oval wheels. You send each down a ramp. A student is really excited to see
they roll differently. Why is his excitement good?
a. He is learning that you can solve problems in different ways.
b. He is learning to inquire and will want to figure out why the move differently.
c. He is having fun using the ramps.
d. He feels science is his favorite subject. - ✔✔b. He is learning to inquire and will want
to figure out why the move differently.
GRADED A+
✔✔What is the best thing to do if a parent of one of your students tells you they lost
their job? - ✔✔Tell them about opportunities in the community that may help them.
✔✔What is the best way to get parents involved in their education? -
✔✔Newsletters/frequent communication from the beginning of the year (Open House)
✔✔What is a summative assessment? - ✔✔Summative assessment (or summative
evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarizes the development
of learners at a particular time. One of the goals of summative assessment is to
evaluate student learning, for example, at the end of an instructional unit by comparing
it against some standard or benchmark. Examples of summative assessment include:
end of unit tests or projects, end of course grades, portfolios, and standardized
assessments.
✔✔*A student in your class has been comparing his work to his peers and is not happy
with his own work. What would be the benefit of a portfolio assessment? - ✔✔To help
him keep track of his own progress.
✔✔As a teacher, one of the main benefits of meeting with students to review artifacts
that were placed in their portfolios is? - ✔✔to see all of the student's achievements over
time.
✔✔What is a benefit of a teacher joining a Pennsylvania State Educator Program? -
✔✔To connect with other teachers.
✔✔What are the benefits of play for children? - ✔✔It promotes cognitive thinking.
✔✔What is the primary purpose of summative assessments? - ✔✔They generate data
for achievements relative to standards, they are "once and done" assessments at the
end of a unit/year.
✔✔What is a formative assessment? - ✔✔Formative assessments allow teachers to
adapt teaching strategies to best fit individual students.
Summative assessments generate data for achievements relative to standards.
✔✔A child is constantly asking questions. Using the psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson,
what should you do as a teacher? - ✔✔Answer all questions and encourage the student
to encounter the world around them.
✔✔You are teaching a unit on fairy tales. What would be an effective way to engage the
community?
, a. Put posters of fairy tales around the community.
b. Invite parents and community members to come in and read to the class.
c. Read books written by different community members.
d. Have the students illustrate their own fairy tale. - ✔✔b. Invite parents and community
members to come in and read to the class.
✔✔How do you promote a positive classroom environment?
a. Provide activities that meet different learning abilities, interests, and goals.
b. Plan lessons so that they tie directly into state standards.
c. Be sure to display environmental print around the classroom.
d. Utilize direct instruction to teach new content and review old material. - ✔✔a. Provide
activities that meet different learning abilities, interests, and goals.
✔✔You have an ESL student who recently scored well on a recent English exam. He
also communicates well in social settings. However, he is struggling with assignments
and does not participate in class discussions. Why?
a. He is fully proficient, but unhappy in school.
b. He has limited proficiency.
c. He is lacking self-confidence.
He cannot understand the directions. - ✔✔c. He is lacking self-confidence.
✔✔You have a struggling student in your class. When must you receive parent
permission?
a. Before taking anecdotal notes.
b. Before trying various interventions in the classroom.
c. Before allowing the child to work with the special education teacher.
d. Before sending the child to the principal. - ✔✔c. Before allowing the child to work with
the special education teacher.
✔✔You are teaching and introducing new concepts to a group of second graders. What
is an effective way to scaffold?
a. Place the students in heterogeneous groups.
b. Allow the students to choose their activity.
c. Watch a video to support the new concepts.
d. Model the new skills for the students - ✔✔d. Model the new skills for the students
✔✔You are conducting an experiment in which you have a car with round wheels and a
car with oval wheels. You send each down a ramp. A student is really excited to see
they roll differently. Why is his excitement good?
a. He is learning that you can solve problems in different ways.
b. He is learning to inquire and will want to figure out why the move differently.
c. He is having fun using the ramps.
d. He feels science is his favorite subject. - ✔✔b. He is learning to inquire and will want
to figure out why the move differently.
