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Texas Teachers Assessment 4 -
Elementary 700.4AE Questions with
Correct Answers for Specific Exam
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In which of the following scenarios is the teacher
differentiating the learning environment:
Ans: Ms. Gonzalez, a fifth-grade reading teacher has a
variety of reading "nooks" in the room. During silent
reading time, some students sit in bean bag chairs, others
on the floor with blankets and pillows, some in desks and a
few outside in the hallway right outside her room.
Identify the four factors you should consider when
planning differentiated lessons?
Ans: student readiness to learn, student background,
student learning style, student interest.
Administering a learning styles inventory and/or a student
interest survey at the beginning of each school year is
valuable because:
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Ans: It can help you gather information about your
students that will allow you to better understand how your
students learn and what their interests are to create
lessons and activities that engage them and meet
varying learning needs.
True/False: Differentiating content requires that students
be pretested.
Ans: True- because it can help you identify which
students do and don't require direct instruction.
Why is differentiation of process necessary for English
Language Learners?
Ans: Because they need sheltered instruction and
language supports to understand and make sense of
content.
Decide which of the following differentiated activities is at
the Tier 2, mastery level:
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Ans: A student uses the vocabulary words he/she has
learned to write a short story.
Differentiation of the curriculum falls into what three main
categories?
Ans: content, process, product
What does flexible grouping allow?
Ans: For learning that is appropriately challenging and
avoids labeling a student's readiness as static.
Which of the following is an example of differentiating the
product for students in a fifth-grade reading class who are
supposed to read and describe the parts of a story in a
book they've read?
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Ans: Providing some students with a story map after they
read the book to outline the events of the story, allowing
kinesthetic or tactile learners the opportunity to rewrite
the book as a skit and perform it for the class, and letting
visual learners draw out the events of the book and
deliver a presentation on the visuals.
Mr. Johnson wants to start differentiating his curriculum
but he doesn't know where or how to begin. Which of the
following steps would you suggest he take?
Ans: Administer a learning styles inventory and determine
which learning objectives and lessons he could adapt or
revise to begin incorporating student's learning styles in his
content delivery, classroom activities, and assessments.
How does blended learning meet the diverse needs of
students in a classroom?
Ans: Because it allows students the opportunity to control
the time, pace, path, and pace of their learning so they
can be engaged both in and out of the classroom.
:
vPretest - Stuvia US
Texas Teachers Assessment 4 -
Elementary 700.4AE Questions with
Correct Answers for Specific Exam
In which of the following scenarios is the teacher
differentiating the learning environment:
Ans: Ms. Gonzalez, a fifth-grade reading teacher has a
variety of reading "nooks" in the room. During silent
reading time, some students sit in bean bag chairs, others
on the floor with blankets and pillows, some in desks and a
few outside in the hallway right outside her room.
Identify the four factors you should consider when
planning differentiated lessons?
Ans: student readiness to learn, student background,
student learning style, student interest.
Administering a learning styles inventory and/or a student
interest survey at the beginning of each school year is
valuable because:
:
vPretest - Stuvia US
,2
Ans: It can help you gather information about your
students that will allow you to better understand how your
students learn and what their interests are to create
lessons and activities that engage them and meet
varying learning needs.
True/False: Differentiating content requires that students
be pretested.
Ans: True- because it can help you identify which
students do and don't require direct instruction.
Why is differentiation of process necessary for English
Language Learners?
Ans: Because they need sheltered instruction and
language supports to understand and make sense of
content.
Decide which of the following differentiated activities is at
the Tier 2, mastery level:
:
vPretest - Stuvia US
,3
Ans: A student uses the vocabulary words he/she has
learned to write a short story.
Differentiation of the curriculum falls into what three main
categories?
Ans: content, process, product
What does flexible grouping allow?
Ans: For learning that is appropriately challenging and
avoids labeling a student's readiness as static.
Which of the following is an example of differentiating the
product for students in a fifth-grade reading class who are
supposed to read and describe the parts of a story in a
book they've read?
:
vPretest - Stuvia US
, 4
Ans: Providing some students with a story map after they
read the book to outline the events of the story, allowing
kinesthetic or tactile learners the opportunity to rewrite
the book as a skit and perform it for the class, and letting
visual learners draw out the events of the book and
deliver a presentation on the visuals.
Mr. Johnson wants to start differentiating his curriculum
but he doesn't know where or how to begin. Which of the
following steps would you suggest he take?
Ans: Administer a learning styles inventory and determine
which learning objectives and lessons he could adapt or
revise to begin incorporating student's learning styles in his
content delivery, classroom activities, and assessments.
How does blended learning meet the diverse needs of
students in a classroom?
Ans: Because it allows students the opportunity to control
the time, pace, path, and pace of their learning so they
can be engaged both in and out of the classroom.
:
vPretest - Stuvia US
