CFD Recruit Orientation Training Manual Questions With Complete Solutions

1. Explicit child-directed instruction (ECDI) can only take place within a _____________________. - ANSWER Relationship 2. _____________________ involve(s) changes to activities, routines, and learning centers support inclusion for children with disabilities and other special needs and to enhance their participation in the classroom. - ANSWER Modifications and adaptations 3. A primary goal of early childhood special education is to do all but which of the following. - ANSWER reduce the impact of low socioeconomic status on the developing child 4. The Individuals with Disabilities Act was civil rights legislation that provided children with FAPE. FAPE stands for __________________________________ - ANSWER Free and Appropriate Public Education 5. When children with disabilities demonstrate serious behavior problems, IDEA requires the team to create a(n) _______________________. - ANSWER Behavior Intervention Plan 6. The document that sets goals and provides services to age birth to three children and their family based on their particularly resources, concerns, priorities and needs is called _________________________. - ANSWER Individual Family Service Plan 7. A child is determined to have a disability and so is placed in a special education preschool classroom outside of their typical classroom prior to attempting interventions within their typical classroom. In this event, the program would be acting against which right set out by the IDEA? - ANSWER Least restrictive environment 8. Teaching rules and procedures should be a part of your lesson plans for - ANSWER until students become more independent in following rules and procedures, and then periodically throughout t 9. Mr. Night teaches a laboratory science class. His students are allowed to talk to students at their lab table during group work. However, they have begun to test this privilege and are talking across tables. Mr. Night should address this problem with - ANSWER reteaching and developing reminders for current rules and procedures. 10. Mr. Colins was a new teacher who wanted to develop good relationships with his students' parents. Mr. Colins should to do which of the following in order to develop effective parent/teacher partnerships. - ANSWER prepare a parent-friendly booklet of all classroom rules and procedures 11. Which of the following statements is false? - ANSWER a. Most businesses and other public facilities take great care to make their environment pleasing and welcoming to the public. b. When organizing your classroom, it is unnecessary to consider the activities that will take place in each area. c. Your classroom should look like a place where learning occurs, where learning is important, and where learning is celebrated. d. Happy, contented students are more likely to be cooperative. If your class is a place where students want to be, they will be less likely to exhibit inappropriate behavior to escape. 12. Which of the following should be removed from a classroom as soon as possible? - ANSWER unused furniture, equipment, or supplies 13. Happy, content students are more likely to be cooperative. When your class is a place where students want to be, they will be less likely to exhibit inappropriate behavior to escape. To accomplish this type of environment, Ms. Truman used which of the following? - ANSWER a. She used respectful talk to students, parents, and professional peers. b. She displayed quality student work. c. She adhered to a zero tolerance policy for any off task behavior. d. a and b only 14. One especially useful tool in developing and implementing rules and procedures is - ANSWER reminders 15. Ms. Jacobs developed five rules for her students: No talking; No leaving seats; and No horseplay. Ms. Jacobs taught the rules and had students practice the rules during the first few weeks of school. However, her students continued to have behavior problems, especially during transitions. Transitions took a long time, and students were usually loud and rowdy while transitioning. Which of the following will help Ms. Jacobs get better behaviors from her students? - ANSWER a. add punishment procedures to complement the rules b. state the rules in positive terms c. create procedures stated in positive terms to complement the rules d. b and c 16. In order to determine the procedures you need for your classroom, you need to - ANSWER a. consider the learning and behavioral characteristics of your students. b. consider all of the tasks required during the school day. c. list behaviors that will make your classroom a positive learning environment. d. all of the above 17. Which of the following questions will help you plan for activities in specific areas of your classroom? - ANSWER a. What materials will need to be stored in this area? b. How will the materials be stored and labeled? c. What materials will students access on their own? d. all of the above 18. WWB: When attempting to determine a child's preferences as part of a choice-making intervention, a teacher should consider all of the following EXCEPT - ANSWER a. items the child is naturally drawn to b. child preferences reported by the child's parent(s) c. activities the child is observed to regularly engage in during free play d. items and activities the teacher is naturally drawn to 19. Ch 7. Because PBS focusing on positive behaviors, it is always preferable to collect data on the replacement behavior rather than the challenging behavior. true or false - ANSWER false 20. Ch 7. Ms. Lopez is worried that Samantha rarely writes her name on her artwork, and she knows this skill will be important when Samantha attends kindergarten next year. Ms. Lopez decides to collect the classes artwork all week long to monitor how often Samantha and her classmates actually remember to write their names. Ms. Lopez is using which method of data collection? - ANSWER permanent product 21. Ch 7. Ms. Conrad wants to increase the amount of time Nicholas engages in cooperative play, rather than parallel play, during free play. However, in a classroom of 12 students and only one teacher, she cannot commit to observing Nicholas for all of free play. Ms. Conrad sets the time on her phone to vibrate every 5 minutes, at which point she glances at Nicholas, and marks on her data sheet if Nicholas is or is not engaged in cooperative play. - ANSWER time sampling 22. Ch 6. Tosh has learned how to write complete sentences in his special education resource class. In his general education class, he often acts out when he is asked to write answers in complete sentences. Tosh has not reached what stage of learning as it applies to his writing? - ANSWER generalization 23. Ch 6. Mr. Jimenez, a kindergarten teacher, places a high value on his students socio-emotional development. For the first month of the year, he prioritized teaching skills like self-regulation and prosocial behavior, ahead of academic skills. After the first month, his students regularly demonstrated excellent socio-emotional skills, and Mr. Jimenez shifted the focus to reading, writing, and mathematics. Three months later, Mr. Jimenez noticed many of his students were no longer sharing, taking turns, or regulating their emotions appropriately. Mr. Jimenez failed to plan for, and his students failed to meet what stage of learning as it applies to socio-emotional development? - ANSWER maintenance 24. Brody is struggling to clean up after lunch. Before implementing anything directly with Brody, his teacher, Mrs. Johnson decided to write out the sequence of steps Brody should follow when cleaning 1) throw away trash, 2) put reusable containers back in his lunchbox, 3) zip up his lunchbox, 4) walk his lunchbox to the lunch basket. Mrs. Johnson then creates pictorial representations for each step. At this stage, by simply listing out the sequence of steps, Mrs. Johnson is using which instructional technique? - ANSWER task analysis 25. Ch 7. Mary will usually follow the teacher's direction to sit down at circle time, however it typically takes her much longer than the rest of her classmates. What type of data would help track this behavior? - ANSWER latency 26. When Lexi was first learning to wash her hands before snack, she often skipped steps in the process, and required additional support from a teacher to complete her hand washing routine. However, now she washes her hands quickly, thoroughly, and independently. Lexi has reached which stage of learning as it applies to hand washing? - ANSWER proficiency 27. Ch 7. Mr. Couch noticed that one of his students was having trouble following directions during math class. He decided to take baseline data. How much time should he spend taking baseline data? - ANSWER 3 to 5 observation periods 28. Which of the following is NOT one of the five steps involved in a functional assessment? - ANSWER explain findings to student 29. Which of the following statements about functional behavioral assessment is FALSE? - ANSWER a. they are less formal than functional analyses b. they are always helpful in addressing all types of challenging behavior c. they help identify patterns of behavior d. they are required by federal law under some circumstances 30. Educators should use functional behavioral assessment because - ANSWER a. it is required by The Elementary and Secondary Education Act. a. it increases the likelihood that interventions will be effective. b. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires FBA under certain circumstances. c. the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires FBA under certain circumstances AND it increases the likelihood that interventions will be effective. 31. A behavior intervention plan (BIP) need only to describe the challenging behaviors that interfere with a student's success. It does not need to address possible replacement behaviors, as replacement behaviors are described in a replacement behavior plan (RBP). - ANSWER True False 32. The school's behavior specialist, Mr. Smith, had a student who knocked his peers' food to the floor during lunch time. Mr. Smith decided that he needed to gather data from this student's teachers before developing an intervention to address the behavior. No environmental manipulations were to be made during the data collection period. Mr. Smith was preparing to use functional ___________. - ANSWER assessment 33. Mr. Graham told his behavior specialist that one of his students was especially rude everyday. The behavior specialist told him that "rude behavior" was too broad a term. She requested an operational definition of the behavior. What did the behavior specialist want from Mr. Graham? - ANSWER an unambiguous, objective definition of a target behavior A school uses a schoolwide reinforcement system. Is this school using SW-PBIS? - ANSWER Perhaps. We'd need to know more about this school before determining if they use SW- PBIS. It is important to have a perfect SW-PBIS program in place on the first day of school, because adjustments cannot be made as needed until the next school year. - ANSWER True False The SW-PBIS team is responsible for many duties. The team is most productive when they have which of the following elements? - ANSWER Structured meetings, including an agenda for each meeting. Which of the following might be interventions of SW- PBIS at the secondary level of prevention? - ANSWER a. A lesson plan on sharing, built around a picture book read to the entire class b. Small group instruction in social skills, self-control skills, or anger management skills c. Behavioral contracts d. all of the above e. b and c only Which of the following is NOT one of the four theoretical elements integrated in PBIS? - ANSWER a. operationally defined and valued outcomes b. research validated practices c. punitive discipline techniques d. systems change to both enhance the broad quality with which all students are living/learning, and reduce problem behaviors In a high-quality SW-PBIS program, data collection should monitor the effectiveness of - ANSWER a. universal level supports b. secondary & tertiary level supports c. fidelity of teacher implementation d. all of the above e. b and c only SW-PBIS is a package program for educators to use as a discipline system for their campus. - ANSWER True False Studies have shown that harsh, exclusionary punishments are disproportionately applied to which students? - ANSWER a. males b. minority students c. students with disabilities d. all of the above A rule matrix, also called a behavior expectation matrix, lays out the following information in a clear and concise format. - ANSWER behavior expectations across varying areas of activities of the school