FTCE Professional Education Exam Questions and Answer Proven 100%(A+)

FTCE Professional Education Exam Questions and Answer Proven 100%(A+) Which of the following would require inductive thinking? (A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for resources affect population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research the topic to find possible answers. (B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make a Venn diagram to show what they learned. (C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it. (D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution and then has the students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. - (A) Inductive thinking starts with a question, then students must find the answer through experimentation or research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was famous for his inductive reasoning. A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is reading at a 75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student takes a multiple-choice quiz on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What does this mean? (A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a more level-appropriate text. (B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to comprehend the text. (C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before taking the assessment. (D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. - (A) Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words in a given text and is showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the student in the scenario is reading well below instructional level. Who elects parents to the school advisory council? (A) School board members (B) School instructional staff (C) Other parents (D) The principal and vice-principal - (C) Parents are elected to the school advisory council by other parents. According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a professional educator's primary concern? (A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing excellence in the profession. (B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and acquisition of knowledge. (C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of colleagues, students, parents, and other members of the community. (D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the development of the student's potential. - (D) The educator's primary concerns will always be for the student and for the development of the student's potential. If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal effect on the students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided? (A) Multiple choice (B) Cloze assessments (C) True/false questions (D) Essay questions - (C) Standard true/false questions give students a 50 percent chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified true/false questions that require students to rewrite false statements to make them true. A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to make eye contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into account? (A) Respect is earned, not demanded. (B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures. (C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of the above - (B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior adult is a sign of disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds of their students and not expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable in their native culture. A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to brainstorm a detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to secede. Why would the teacher start the lesson this way? (A) To conduct a formative assessment. (B) To conduct a summative assessment. (C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students. (D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. - (C) Activating prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence between lessons. Graphic organizers such as KWL charts give students an opportunity to record what they already know (K), what they want to know (W), and eventually what they learned (L). At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit ticket that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses them. The exit ticket is used? (A) as a classroom management technique. (B) to assess students' ability to follow directions. (C) as a tool to document learning gains. (D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. - (D) Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned during a lesson and what parts of the new material still needs to be addressed. A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately comprehending the meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of letter-sound recognition activities to help the student improve their reading skills. On what skill is the teacher focusing? (A) Encoding (B) Decoding (C) Semantics (D) Flu - (B) When a student decodes words, he or she must sound the words, then immediately comprehend the meaning. Letter-sound recognition activities help students learn to decode words. A middle-school math teacher has been documenting student performance on progressive skills tests throughout the semester. Currently none of the students are on an individualized education program. After analyzing the following data table, what should be the teacher's first step? (A) The teacher should recommend that student D be moved to a higher-level math class since that student's scores are so much higher than the mean scores of the class. (B) Student C is not showing significant progress and needs instructional support. (C) Student B is not responding to classroom instruction and needs to begin an intervention program in the classroom. (D) The teacher needs to contact student B's parents to develop an individualized education program (IEP) for the student. - (C) Student B has shown little improvement (22 percent, 38 percent, 24 percent, and 28 percent) as a result of regular classroom instruction. After reviewing the data, the teacher should implement an intervention program, beginning with small-group instruction and increased teacher support. If after that the student still showed no progress, the teacher should also include one-on-one intervention outside of the whole-class instruction. Only after the teacher provided a systematic, documented intervention over a significant period of time (9-18 weeks) would the need for an individualized education program (IEP) be addressed. Why would a classroom teacher use fishbone diagrams? (A) To show a timeline of events (B) To demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships (C) To give a student the opportunity to develop a concept (D) To show what a student knows prior to beginning a lesson - (B) Fishbone diagrams are used to show cause-and-effect relationships in a text. A teacher wants to make sure that her students understand and remember the classroom rules. The best way to accomplish this is to? (A) hang them on a poster in the back of the room. (B) print them out and have students sign that they will follow them.(C) present them to the class, clearly post them, then review them periodically. (D) send a copy of them home so that parents can review them with the students. - (C) Classroom rules are most effective when they are presented to the class, clearly posted, then reviewed periodically. A teacher wants to build a spirit of community and peer-support in a student-centered classroom. Which of the following would best meet the objective? (A) The teacher would show the students video clips showing how working together is critical for career success. (B) The teacher would use direct instruction to share with the students how a spirit of community is effective in the classroom. (C) The teacher would put the students into mixed-ability, cooperative learning groups, then give them tasks that require them to work together to meet a common goal. (D) The teacher would put the students in mixed-ability groups and give them individual projects to work on then present to the class as a whole. - (C) Heterogeneous cooperative learning groups who are given tasks that require them to work together to meet a common goal develop a spirit of community and peer support. A performance-based assessment would include? (A) creating a model, assembling a collection, or writing a term paper. (B) completing a cloze exercise. (C) performing well on a year-end assessment. (D) working in small groups. - (A) Performance-based assessments require students to create something or to perform in order to be assessed. Which of the following format accommodations is not allowed on state standardized testing? (A) Allowing extra time to complete the assessment (B) Providing an alternative setting for testing (C) Enlarging the images on the screen (D) Only requiring very few questions that actually cover the standards - (D) Reducing the number of questions is not a format accommodation that is allowed on end-of-the-year, state-mandated testing. Jerome Bruner would encourage teachers? (A) to not just teach content, but to teach students how to apply critical thinking skills to new situations. (B) to provide students with a more experienced student to scaffold knowledge. (C) to provide peer interaction in the classroom, which is critical for cognitive development. (D) to focus on creating developmentally appropriate activities to teach the standards. - (A) Bruner believes that teaching students to think critically is more important than teaching them basic knowledge. Which of the following is not a way that a teacher can officially respond to or dispute a decision by the Office of Professional Practices? (A) The teacher can deny the charges and request a formal hearing.(B) The teacher can draft a formal letter to the school board to request a review of the charges. (C) The teacher can admit to the charges and request an informal hearing. (D) The teacher can agree to a settlement offer. - (B) The school board would not review decisions made by the Office of Professional Practices.