ABCTE PTK EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Designing a curriculum - ✔✔Determine time needed, write assessment, teach skills,
review for assessment, give assessment, evaluate effectiveness, redesign and repeat
✔✔Objectives - ✔✔Easy to turn into test questions
✔✔Required reading for all new teachers - ✔✔Local curriculum guide
✔✔Assessments inform - ✔✔Instruction
✔✔Pace of instruction depends on - ✔✔Nature of students, difficulty of material, and
curricular goals
✔✔Rule 1 for teachers - ✔✔Meet the needs of the students
✔✔Rule 2 for teachers - ✔✔It isn't about how much you teach but how much they
remember
✔✔Rule 3 for teachers - ✔✔Students performance depends on teachers ability to
prepare appropriate lessons
✔✔Learning cycle - ✔✔Exploration, concept introduction, concept application
✔✔Concept introduction - ✔✔Teaching stage or guided discovery
✔✔Exploration stage - ✔✔The stage that involves more in-depth interactions
✔✔Concept application stage - ✔✔Apply new skills to new situations
✔✔active learning - ✔✔Involving the students more in the lesson
✔✔Warm up - ✔✔Focuses attention on a meaningful task, prepare students for learning
✔✔Lecture - ✔✔Teacher talking to the students
✔✔Demonstrations - ✔✔Perform some instructional act/ showing a technique, process,
or procedure
✔✔Worksheets - ✔✔Support classroom learning in practice or higher level thinking
✔✔Gallery walk - ✔✔Observe and think about instructional items around the room
, ✔✔Technology - ✔✔Allows differentiation, reinforcement of lesson and present new info
to faster learners
✔✔CAI - ✔✔Computer assisted instruction
✔✔Webquest - ✔✔Teacher created activity to use internet to guide students through
websites
✔✔Graphic organizers - ✔✔Shows connectedness of topics
✔✔Frayer model - ✔✔Vocabulary categorization (is, is not, examples and non
examples)
✔✔Concept attainment - ✔✔Helping them find the topic by explaining what it is and isn't
✔✔Concept mapping - ✔✔Graphical representation for how concepts connect
✔✔KWL - ✔✔- What you know, what you want to know, what you learned
✔✔Questioning - ✔✔Measure students understand in and promote student thinking
✔✔4 types of questions - ✔✔Recall, open ended, probing, guiding
✔✔Instructional responses - ✔✔Clarifying, paraphrasing, non-judgmental, advisory
✔✔Clarifying responses - ✔✔Reword thinking to eliminate extra or unnecessary info
✔✔Paraphrasing responses - ✔✔Restating the words to repeat the answer for learning
purpose
✔✔Non-judgmental responses - ✔✔Neutral communication that promotes the lesson
and continues it
✔✔Advisory responses - ✔✔Prompt them to remember the important part
✔✔Recitation - ✔✔Recall type questions and answers to see their understanding
✔✔Piggyback - ✔✔Encourages more answers following one from a student
✔✔Round robin responses - ✔✔Teacher asks a question and students respond in an
orderly way
GRADED A+
✔✔Designing a curriculum - ✔✔Determine time needed, write assessment, teach skills,
review for assessment, give assessment, evaluate effectiveness, redesign and repeat
✔✔Objectives - ✔✔Easy to turn into test questions
✔✔Required reading for all new teachers - ✔✔Local curriculum guide
✔✔Assessments inform - ✔✔Instruction
✔✔Pace of instruction depends on - ✔✔Nature of students, difficulty of material, and
curricular goals
✔✔Rule 1 for teachers - ✔✔Meet the needs of the students
✔✔Rule 2 for teachers - ✔✔It isn't about how much you teach but how much they
remember
✔✔Rule 3 for teachers - ✔✔Students performance depends on teachers ability to
prepare appropriate lessons
✔✔Learning cycle - ✔✔Exploration, concept introduction, concept application
✔✔Concept introduction - ✔✔Teaching stage or guided discovery
✔✔Exploration stage - ✔✔The stage that involves more in-depth interactions
✔✔Concept application stage - ✔✔Apply new skills to new situations
✔✔active learning - ✔✔Involving the students more in the lesson
✔✔Warm up - ✔✔Focuses attention on a meaningful task, prepare students for learning
✔✔Lecture - ✔✔Teacher talking to the students
✔✔Demonstrations - ✔✔Perform some instructional act/ showing a technique, process,
or procedure
✔✔Worksheets - ✔✔Support classroom learning in practice or higher level thinking
✔✔Gallery walk - ✔✔Observe and think about instructional items around the room
, ✔✔Technology - ✔✔Allows differentiation, reinforcement of lesson and present new info
to faster learners
✔✔CAI - ✔✔Computer assisted instruction
✔✔Webquest - ✔✔Teacher created activity to use internet to guide students through
websites
✔✔Graphic organizers - ✔✔Shows connectedness of topics
✔✔Frayer model - ✔✔Vocabulary categorization (is, is not, examples and non
examples)
✔✔Concept attainment - ✔✔Helping them find the topic by explaining what it is and isn't
✔✔Concept mapping - ✔✔Graphical representation for how concepts connect
✔✔KWL - ✔✔- What you know, what you want to know, what you learned
✔✔Questioning - ✔✔Measure students understand in and promote student thinking
✔✔4 types of questions - ✔✔Recall, open ended, probing, guiding
✔✔Instructional responses - ✔✔Clarifying, paraphrasing, non-judgmental, advisory
✔✔Clarifying responses - ✔✔Reword thinking to eliminate extra or unnecessary info
✔✔Paraphrasing responses - ✔✔Restating the words to repeat the answer for learning
purpose
✔✔Non-judgmental responses - ✔✔Neutral communication that promotes the lesson
and continues it
✔✔Advisory responses - ✔✔Prompt them to remember the important part
✔✔Recitation - ✔✔Recall type questions and answers to see their understanding
✔✔Piggyback - ✔✔Encourages more answers following one from a student
✔✔Round robin responses - ✔✔Teacher asks a question and students respond in an
orderly way
