FTCE Professional Education Practice
Test Questions and Correct Answers
Teachers who conduct action research might:
Videotape their lessons to reflect on instructional strategies.
A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of
text. The 4 basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are:
Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing.
What type of test could a school district use to determine if state standards
were being effectively taught?
Criterion-referenced test
The best example of a cognitive objective?
Students will complete a two-digit multiplication skills test with 85% mastery.
,An educator signed up for a paid online professional development session that
required watching short video segments and personally reflecting on their
content. The educator let the videos run in the background, and quickly clicked
through the acknowledgments without completing the reflections. What portion
of the Code of Ethics does this violate?
The obligation to the profession.
Learning activities should always be based on:
specific objectives.
An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their
children. The most effective way to do this while fostering parent
communication is to:
Invite parents to a "reading night" where student and parents meet to read and
share favorite poems.
Which statement from a teacher would be considered classroom management
through use of negative reinforcement?
"If you would start turning in your homework, I wouldn't have to call your mother
every afternoon!"
,In order to practice effective behavior management, classroom rules
should be followed by all students and be consistently enforced.
Which would be a responsibility of a school advisory council?
Developing a school improvement plan
Which would be an example of negative reinforcement?
The teacher stops complaining about the messy floor after the students clean it up.
A teacher has discovered and implemented a new online behavior-management
program that is improving student behavior while providing an easy way to
communicate with parents. The teacher should
Meet with the principal to discussing sharing the new product at the next
professional development day.
The best tool for a teacher to use to keep a running, averaged record of student
scores throughout the year is
Spreadsheet
, The most effective way to present vocabulary is
in context to convey rich meaning to the students.
The best graphic organizer for analyzing similarities and differences is
a Venn diagram
An ELL joins the classroom mid-year. She appears to speak fluent English and
participates well in class, yet struggles academically in reading and science.
When questioned, the teacher learns that the student has only lived in America
for 2 years. The student's academic struggles are likely the result of
Not having mastered cognitive academic language proficiency due to the length of
time she has been speaking English.
The input-hypothesis model developed by Steven Krashen would suggest that
ELLs would benefit from
Being given information that is just slightly above their ability level in the second
language.
The No Child Left Behind Act states that
Student whose first language is not English may only be tested in English.
Test Questions and Correct Answers
Teachers who conduct action research might:
Videotape their lessons to reflect on instructional strategies.
A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of
text. The 4 basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are:
Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing.
What type of test could a school district use to determine if state standards
were being effectively taught?
Criterion-referenced test
The best example of a cognitive objective?
Students will complete a two-digit multiplication skills test with 85% mastery.
,An educator signed up for a paid online professional development session that
required watching short video segments and personally reflecting on their
content. The educator let the videos run in the background, and quickly clicked
through the acknowledgments without completing the reflections. What portion
of the Code of Ethics does this violate?
The obligation to the profession.
Learning activities should always be based on:
specific objectives.
An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their
children. The most effective way to do this while fostering parent
communication is to:
Invite parents to a "reading night" where student and parents meet to read and
share favorite poems.
Which statement from a teacher would be considered classroom management
through use of negative reinforcement?
"If you would start turning in your homework, I wouldn't have to call your mother
every afternoon!"
,In order to practice effective behavior management, classroom rules
should be followed by all students and be consistently enforced.
Which would be a responsibility of a school advisory council?
Developing a school improvement plan
Which would be an example of negative reinforcement?
The teacher stops complaining about the messy floor after the students clean it up.
A teacher has discovered and implemented a new online behavior-management
program that is improving student behavior while providing an easy way to
communicate with parents. The teacher should
Meet with the principal to discussing sharing the new product at the next
professional development day.
The best tool for a teacher to use to keep a running, averaged record of student
scores throughout the year is
Spreadsheet
, The most effective way to present vocabulary is
in context to convey rich meaning to the students.
The best graphic organizer for analyzing similarities and differences is
a Venn diagram
An ELL joins the classroom mid-year. She appears to speak fluent English and
participates well in class, yet struggles academically in reading and science.
When questioned, the teacher learns that the student has only lived in America
for 2 years. The student's academic struggles are likely the result of
Not having mastered cognitive academic language proficiency due to the length of
time she has been speaking English.
The input-hypothesis model developed by Steven Krashen would suggest that
ELLs would benefit from
Being given information that is just slightly above their ability level in the second
language.
The No Child Left Behind Act states that
Student whose first language is not English may only be tested in English.
