MTTC QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Question: What are the Common Core Standards? ✔✔ Answer: A shared set
of academic standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics for
students in grades K-12. These standards were designed to ensure that students
graduating from high school are prepared for college or the workforce, regardless
of which state they live in.
Question: What is a "Scaffold" in an educational context? ✔✔ Answer:
Temporary support provided by a teacher to help a student complete a task
they cannot yet do independently. As the student gains competence, the scaffold
is gradually removed. This concept is central to Vygotsky’s theory of learning.
Question: What are "Readiness Tools" and how should a teacher use them?
✔✔ Answer: Assessments or checklists used to determine if students possess
the prerequisite skills needed to begin a new unit. * Key Step: Before using
these tools, a teacher must first identify the specific "entry-level" skills required to
tackle the upcoming challenges of the curriculum.
Psychomotor Objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on the students skills-tasks or
actions they can execute. For ex: "Students will be able to tell time from an analog
clock." What students do.
Cognitive Objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on student learning. For ex:
"Students will be able to explain how a bill becomes a law." How they think.
affective objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on student feelings and values. For ex:
"Students demonstrate respect for ideas different from their own." How they feel.
,Goals-based unit -ANSWER✔✔focuses on a group of standards in the same
content area. ex: unit on fractions
Thematic Units -ANSWER✔✔Draws on standards from multiple content or
subject areas. "Unit on math and art"
Project-based unit -ANSWER✔✔focuses on the creation of a specific end product
that demonstrates mastery of the objectives. Math-based art museum.
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development -ANSWER✔✔A theory made up of
sensorimotor period, pre operational period, concrete operations, and formal.
Children's intelligence undergoes as they grow.
Vyotsky's Zone of Proximal Development -ANSWER✔✔The space between what
a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance
or in collaboration with more capable peers. Learning occurs through development
and teaching. Children learn through interactions with adults
preoperational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6
or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet
comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
concrete operational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the
mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
, formal operational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to
think logically about abstract concepts.
sensorimotor stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about
2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities
Bloom's Taxonomy -ANSWER✔✔A system for categorizing levels of abstraction
of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following
competencies: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation. The goal is for students to move up from lower-level concepts, to
higher. The objectives build off of developed knowledge.
Cognitive Theory -ANSWER✔✔Comprehension of the world around them,
including cause and effect, reasoning and patterns.
language theory -ANSWER✔✔Alphabetic and phonemic awareness: written and
oral language.
physical theory -ANSWER✔✔Gross and fine motor skills.
Social-emotional theory -ANSWER✔✔Also called affective; social interactions,
development of empathy, kindness and respect for others.
adaptive theory -ANSWER✔✔Self-care skills and increasing independence.
WITH A+ SOLUTIONS, UPDATED 2026,
SUCCESS GUARANTEED, FULL
EXPLANATIONS
Question: What are the Common Core Standards? ✔✔ Answer: A shared set
of academic standards in English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics for
students in grades K-12. These standards were designed to ensure that students
graduating from high school are prepared for college or the workforce, regardless
of which state they live in.
Question: What is a "Scaffold" in an educational context? ✔✔ Answer:
Temporary support provided by a teacher to help a student complete a task
they cannot yet do independently. As the student gains competence, the scaffold
is gradually removed. This concept is central to Vygotsky’s theory of learning.
Question: What are "Readiness Tools" and how should a teacher use them?
✔✔ Answer: Assessments or checklists used to determine if students possess
the prerequisite skills needed to begin a new unit. * Key Step: Before using
these tools, a teacher must first identify the specific "entry-level" skills required to
tackle the upcoming challenges of the curriculum.
Psychomotor Objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on the students skills-tasks or
actions they can execute. For ex: "Students will be able to tell time from an analog
clock." What students do.
Cognitive Objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on student learning. For ex:
"Students will be able to explain how a bill becomes a law." How they think.
affective objectives -ANSWER✔✔Focuses on student feelings and values. For ex:
"Students demonstrate respect for ideas different from their own." How they feel.
,Goals-based unit -ANSWER✔✔focuses on a group of standards in the same
content area. ex: unit on fractions
Thematic Units -ANSWER✔✔Draws on standards from multiple content or
subject areas. "Unit on math and art"
Project-based unit -ANSWER✔✔focuses on the creation of a specific end product
that demonstrates mastery of the objectives. Math-based art museum.
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development -ANSWER✔✔A theory made up of
sensorimotor period, pre operational period, concrete operations, and formal.
Children's intelligence undergoes as they grow.
Vyotsky's Zone of Proximal Development -ANSWER✔✔The space between what
a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance
or in collaboration with more capable peers. Learning occurs through development
and teaching. Children learn through interactions with adults
preoperational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6
or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet
comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
concrete operational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the
mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
, formal operational stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive
development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to
think logically about abstract concepts.
sensorimotor stage -ANSWER✔✔in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about
2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their
sensory impressions and motor activities
Bloom's Taxonomy -ANSWER✔✔A system for categorizing levels of abstraction
of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following
competencies: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and
evaluation. The goal is for students to move up from lower-level concepts, to
higher. The objectives build off of developed knowledge.
Cognitive Theory -ANSWER✔✔Comprehension of the world around them,
including cause and effect, reasoning and patterns.
language theory -ANSWER✔✔Alphabetic and phonemic awareness: written and
oral language.
physical theory -ANSWER✔✔Gross and fine motor skills.
Social-emotional theory -ANSWER✔✔Also called affective; social interactions,
development of empathy, kindness and respect for others.
adaptive theory -ANSWER✔✔Self-care skills and increasing independence.
