Mr. Bierhalter teaches at a middle school which is widely diverse both culturally and
socioeconomically. When teaching a lesson on communities, which of the following would be
appropriate instructional strategies for enhancing and accommodating this diversity in the
student population? - Answers 1. Include references to communities that are representative of
the student population.
2. References to cummunities that are not like those of the student population.
3. Activate students prior knowledge to help personalize learning.
4. Activate prior knowledge to help build a foundation for learning.
5. Allow choice in the activities students use to demonstrate learning.
Mrs. Lamont needs to assess progress in the writing skills for her secone-grade students.
Which of the following are appropriate assessment tools for her to use? - Answers Work
samples, Portfolios, Checklists, Rubrics, Observation
A junior high teacher wants to be sure to cover all concepts and skills that are designated for
the students in his grade level. Which of the following resources are available to help him know
what concepts and skills should be taught and in what order? - Answers Scope and sequence
Which of the following are true statements about the usefulness and purpose of assessment? -
Answers 1. Assesment should be used to understand areas of learning with which students are
having difficulty.
2. Assesment used to understand areas of learning which students are mastering.
3. Teachers should review and evaluate the contents of an assesment.
4. Assessment results should be used to inform and improve teaching.
5. Assessment resultes should be used to improve student learning.
How does actually moving manipulatives around the class, like the tennis balls in the activity,
help a learner more effectively solve problems? - Answers Concrete materials enable learners to
more effectively and effciently find a possible solution.
2. Concrete materials help learners discover patterns in order to find other possible solutions.
3. Concrete materials help learners find all the possible solutions to a given problem.
A teacher works with ELL at various levels of language proficiency. Which of the following
strategies supports ELL's during classroom instruction?
1. Visuals which illustrate complex concepts
, 2. Pretaught vocabulary words
3. Cooperative learning activities
4. Sentence stems - Answers 1. 2. 3. and 4.
The following is an instructional objective for a ninth-grade biology class: List the major
chemical elements in cells. This objective reflects? - Answers The Remember Level of Bloom's
Cognitive Domain
Alicia attends an early childhood center in he neighborhood. Alicia has been taught to share her
toys with others and in most cases behaves very well. However, when it comes time for centers
in school, Alicia runs to the beanbag chair, which is located in the reading center and claims it is
hers. Her teacher can change this behavior by? - Answers Modeling turn-taking and then
monitoring Alicia closely.
This type of sofware allows students to record, sort, mathematically analyze and represent
numerical data in tabular and/or graphical forms. - Answers Spreadsheet software
Ms. Jackson, the six-grade math teacher, wants to encourage all of the students in her class to
perform at their highest level in mathematics. Knowing what effective feedback sounds like,
which of the following is the least effective statement to make to a student having problems
with writing equations that represent problems related to the area of rectangles, parallelograms
trapezoids, and triangles? - Answers "Think about what you did here. You must use the
information that I give to you."
Mrs. Schneider has been the third-grade team chair for the last four years. She is ready for a
change and would like one of the other teachers to assume the responsibility. What should Mrs.
Schneider's FIRST approach be? - Answers Go to the principal and discuss the possible change.
Which of the following describes the zone of proximal develepment that a middle grade teacher
should look for when scaffolding learning for students? - Answers 1. The differentce between a
learner's ability to perform a task independently versus with guidance.
2. The "window of learning" where scaffolding should happen
A second-grade teacher is observing he students problem-solve Math word problems. What is
perhaps the most important drawback when students go directly to writing a number sentence
first in order to solve a problem? - Answers They may not be able to show their problem-solving
strategy on paper without using manipulatives first.
A teacher works with an intermediate-level English Language learner who is struggling to
understand concepts taught in science. If the science teacher is beginning a unit about
weathering and erosion, the teacher might scaffold instruction by - Answers sharing a short
video clip on the topic.