FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 Questions with complete Answers

FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1 Questions with complete 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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. 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: Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment? Carl: This is a stupid assignment. Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk about it? In her interaction with Carl, which of the following elements of effective communication did the teacher exhibit? A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and paraphrasing B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a reflective listener C. being a thoughtful questioner and paraphrasing D. redirecting and paraphrasing B A high school calculus teacher decides to attend a workshop on a sophisticated mathematical software program at a state conference. The teacher's probable purpose for attending the workshop is to A. be a risk-taker and innovator. B. participate in collaborative decision making. C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly defined goals. D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge D An interdisciplinary team of middle school teachers wants to develop lessons that promote students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the following is most likely to promote the higher-order thinking skills of middle school students? A. in math, filling in the missing components of a pattern B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing significant events of a historical period C. in science, graphing data from an experiment D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem C A first-year third-grade teacher has received her class roster for the upcoming school year. She notes that the 19 students in her class are culturally diverse and that two students are receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services - one is visually impaired, and the other has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom layout, it is most important for the teacher to consider the A. materials and resources available in her classroom. B. availability of assistive technology equipment in the school. C. potential discipline problems she might encounter with such a varied group of students D. instructional approaches she is planning to use in her classroom. D Ms. Kim, a middle school teacher, overhears two students, Jimmy and Curtis, talking about drugs. The teacher confronts the students to discuss what she heard. Following is an excerpt from their discussion: Ms. Kim: Jimmy, I want to talk to you about what you said to Curtis about needing some drugs. Jimmy: Ms. Kim, you got it all wrong. I was just kiddin' around. I don't do drugs. Curtis: That's right, Ms. Kim. Jimmy doesn't mess with drugs. Ms. Kim: I'm not so sure. Some of your other teachers have told me that your grades have dropped a lot since school started, Jimmy. Aren't you failing math and English? Jimmy: Well, I'm not doing real good in school right now, but it's not because of drugs. You gotta believe me, Ms. Kim Ms. Kim: Well, you two go on to your next class. I'll talk to you about this later. When Ms. Kim discussed Jimmy's grades in front of Curtis, her actions were A. Inappropriate, because the suspected drug abuse was a more important issue. B. Inappropriate, because she publicly disparaged Jimmy. C. Appropriate, because Jimmy's behavior will likely change as a result. D. Appropriate, because peer pressure from Curtis toward Jimmy to do better will likely result. B Which of the following strategies would be best for developing a fourth-grade student's reading fluency? A. Encourage the student to reread books written at the student's independent reading level. B. Encourage the student to memorize common phonics rules to improve decoding skills. C. Have a peer give constructive feedback after listening to the student read aloud. D. Have the student practice blending onsets and rimes for word families quickly and accurately. A After a cooperative learning activity in language arts, the teacher asks students to determine whether the activity was successful and to reflect on their roles and participation. Which of the following is a benefit of having students do this assignment? A. It will allow the teacher to assess students' mastery of the language arts objective for the cooperative learning activity. B. It will promote self-reflection and self-assessment on the part of the student. C. It will promote a healthy, competitive spirit among students. D. It will allow the teacher to identify those students who exhibited leadership skills. B A social studies teacher uses a town controversy over whether a large oil company should be permitted to drill on the site of a historic landmark as the basis for a discussion in class. The teacher poses the following question to the class: "Should preservation of historic landmarks stand in the way of economic development? Why or why not?" The teacher's questions are probably posed for the purpose of A. encouraging students to recall factual information. B. providing students with clues to the teacher's personal opinion about the controversy. C. checking students' understanding of the nature of the controversy. D. providing a framework for engaging students in critical thinking about the controversy. D The computer science teacher volunteers to conduct a professional learning workshop for the other teachers at school on using a popular spreadsheet software program. Conducting the workshop best illustrates that the teacher knows how to A. use technology to enhance the mission of the school. B. actively share ideas with colleagues to contribute to a successful learning community. C. use community resources to promote professional growth. D. use group processes to make decisions and solve problems. B Students in a high school history class are debating a controversial historical issue. The teacher's main purpose for having the class debate is to A. provide a means for students to practice public speaking skills. B. give students an opportunity to engage in collaborative problem solving. C. engage students in higher-order thinking in an authentic context. D. minimize the negative effects of historical controversies on student performance. C A science teacher observes that most of her students seem to think of scientists as men. Which of the following would be the most effective way for the teacher to counter gender stereotyping? A. Have the students do research papers on female scientists. B. Show a video about famous female scientists. C. Have a day in which the class learns about and celebrates women in science. D. Invite a variety of male and female guests who have science science-related careers to visit the class throughout the year. D Parents of a student ask Mr. Mann, their child's teacher, to show them their child's grade sand also the grades of the child's classmates. Which of the following actions would be appropriate for Mr. Mann to take in response to the parents' request? A. Tell the parents that he cannot legally show them other students' grades B. Show the parents the grades of the other students, but caution that they must keep them confidential. C. Explain to the parents that there is no point in their seeing the grades because teachers have the sole right to assign grades. D. Tell the parents that their request must go through the principal's office first. A An effective strategy for promoting fifth graders' vocabulary development is to have the students A. Look up new words in the dictionary and use information from the definitions they find to write sentences containing the new words. B. Discuss the unfamiliar words in a story that was read aloud by the teacher. C. Make a list of high-frequency words in a word journal. D. Memorize definitions of unfamiliar words encountered in stories read in the reading center. B At midyear, a high school teacher asks the students to respond to the following three prompts: What I like best about this class What I like least about this class What I would change to make this class better This type of assessment is called a A. criterion-referenced assessment B. formative assessment C. needs assessment D. norm-referenced assessment B Florida law explicitly states that immediate intensive intervention for and elementary school student who has been identified with a reading deficiency must be provided A. daily B. twice a week C. three times a week D. every two weeks A A first-year third-grade teacher asks a counselor for professional advice on how best to help a student who has an Individualized Progress Monitoring Plan (PMP) meet state and district standards for proficiency in reading. The teacher's decision to consult the counselor is most in accord with which of the following principles? A. Teachers should understand that different students learn in different ways and can apply this understanding to promote learning. B. Teachers should know how to design outcome-oriented learning experiences that enhance academic success for all students. C. Teachers should be reflective practitioners who know how to work within a learning community to enhance students' academic performance. D. Teachers should use effective communication to shape the classroom into a community of learners. C Students in a second-grade class have finished reading a version of the classic tale, "Jack and the Beanstalk." The story tells about a boy named Jack who climbs a beanstalk and meets an unfriendly giant. At the end of the story, Jack deposes the giant. Which of the following questions about the story would likely be most effective for assessing students' creative thinking skills? A. Why did Jack climb the beanstalk? B. Why do you think Jack kept returning to the giant's castle even though he was scared of the giant? C. What did Jack do that made his mother angry? D. What would have happened if the giant and Jack had become good friends? D To promote all students' understanding and appreciation of diversity, it would be most beneficial for a teacher to A. Decorate the classroom with students' drawings based on readings of stories from students' home cultures. B. Make a presentation about the holiday traditions of people from a variety of cultures. C. Teach students numbers and other vocabulary from a variety of languages spoken in the community. D. Invite visitors from the different cultural backgrounds represented in the class to lead and participate in a variety of activities. D Which of the following is NOT one of the Principles of Professional Conduct for the Education Profession of Florida? A. Obligation to the student requires that the individual shall not unreasonably deny a student access to diverse points of view. B. Obligation to the parents requires that the individual shall maintain a classroom climate that promotes the lifelong pursuit of learning. C. Obligation to the profession of education requires that the individual shall maintain honesty in all professional dealings. D. Obligation to the public requires that the individual shall not use institutional privileges for personal gain or advantage. B