PTC FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - The learned and shared values, a system of beliefs and
attitudes or control mechanisms that shape our behavior.
Diversity - CORRECT ANSWER - Differences in characteristics, qualities, traits, values,
beliefs, and mannerisms in self and others based on predetermined factors (i.e., gender, race, etc.)
and changeable features (i.e., language, citizenship).
Identity - CORRECT ANSWER - Defined as knowing who we are and to what groups we
belong to.
English language learners (ELLs) - CORRECT ANSWER - Individuals who are
monolingual speakers of other languages.
Dual language program - CORRECT ANSWER - Emphasis is on the native language first
in grades kindergarten and first. Gradual use of English begins in second or third, and both
languages are used equally in fourth and fifth grade (90/10 model). The 50/50 model is one in
which half of the instruction is English and half in Spanish, but no simultaneously. Some
subjects are taught in the native language and others in English.
Maintenance program (Late exit) - CORRECT ANSWER - Programs focus on maintaining
the native language for instruction with ELL component very often up until fifth or sixth grade,
depending on the school.
Transitional Bilingual Education program - CORRECT ANSWER - Instruction in the
native language and English from kindergarten and an ELL component. Instruction in the native
language decreases until about third or fourth grade, when the native-language instruction is
replaced with English instruction.
Culturally relevant pedagogy - CORRECT ANSWER - A theoretical model that not only
addresses student achievement but also helps students accept and affirm their cultural identity
, while developing critical perspectives that challenge inequities that schools (and other
institutions) perpetuate.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 - CORRECT ANSWER - Requires that
"no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States, shall solely by reason of his
handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to
discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance". The law
requires public schools to provide students with a "free appropriate public education" and, in
addition, ensures that students with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in
school programs.
The Americans with Disabilities Act - CORRECT ANSWER - A law that states that child-
care centers designed as public accommodations, must be available to all who desire to use them.
They must serve all children, including those who are disabled, unless (a) the child is a direct
threat to self or others, (b) the facility cannot provide child care without it being an undue
burden, or (c) the child-care center would have to change the services it provides.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 - CORRECT ANSWER - All people
between the ages of 3 and 18 must be provided with free and appropriate public education. The
education must be in a program designed to meet the child's needs in the least restrictive
environment.
Pull out services - CORRECT ANSWER - Services in which children with similar needs
are "pulled out" of their base classroom to meet with a specialist for small-group teaching.
Push in services - CORRECT ANSWER - Services in which the specialist assigned to
children with disabilities works in their base classroom.
Reverse inclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A type of program in which typically
developing children are brought to the special education classroom for short periods of time to
interact with children with disabilities.
Amendments of 1983 - CORRECT ANSWER - Extended fiscal authorization for federal
aid to state and local school systems; improved reporting and information dissemination
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Culture - CORRECT ANSWER - The learned and shared values, a system of beliefs and
attitudes or control mechanisms that shape our behavior.
Diversity - CORRECT ANSWER - Differences in characteristics, qualities, traits, values,
beliefs, and mannerisms in self and others based on predetermined factors (i.e., gender, race, etc.)
and changeable features (i.e., language, citizenship).
Identity - CORRECT ANSWER - Defined as knowing who we are and to what groups we
belong to.
English language learners (ELLs) - CORRECT ANSWER - Individuals who are
monolingual speakers of other languages.
Dual language program - CORRECT ANSWER - Emphasis is on the native language first
in grades kindergarten and first. Gradual use of English begins in second or third, and both
languages are used equally in fourth and fifth grade (90/10 model). The 50/50 model is one in
which half of the instruction is English and half in Spanish, but no simultaneously. Some
subjects are taught in the native language and others in English.
Maintenance program (Late exit) - CORRECT ANSWER - Programs focus on maintaining
the native language for instruction with ELL component very often up until fifth or sixth grade,
depending on the school.
Transitional Bilingual Education program - CORRECT ANSWER - Instruction in the
native language and English from kindergarten and an ELL component. Instruction in the native
language decreases until about third or fourth grade, when the native-language instruction is
replaced with English instruction.
Culturally relevant pedagogy - CORRECT ANSWER - A theoretical model that not only
addresses student achievement but also helps students accept and affirm their cultural identity
, while developing critical perspectives that challenge inequities that schools (and other
institutions) perpetuate.
Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 - CORRECT ANSWER - Requires that
"no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States, shall solely by reason of his
handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to
discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance". The law
requires public schools to provide students with a "free appropriate public education" and, in
addition, ensures that students with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in
school programs.
The Americans with Disabilities Act - CORRECT ANSWER - A law that states that child-
care centers designed as public accommodations, must be available to all who desire to use them.
They must serve all children, including those who are disabled, unless (a) the child is a direct
threat to self or others, (b) the facility cannot provide child care without it being an undue
burden, or (c) the child-care center would have to change the services it provides.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 - CORRECT ANSWER - All people
between the ages of 3 and 18 must be provided with free and appropriate public education. The
education must be in a program designed to meet the child's needs in the least restrictive
environment.
Pull out services - CORRECT ANSWER - Services in which children with similar needs
are "pulled out" of their base classroom to meet with a specialist for small-group teaching.
Push in services - CORRECT ANSWER - Services in which the specialist assigned to
children with disabilities works in their base classroom.
Reverse inclusion - CORRECT ANSWER - A type of program in which typically
developing children are brought to the special education classroom for short periods of time to
interact with children with disabilities.
Amendments of 1983 - CORRECT ANSWER - Extended fiscal authorization for federal
aid to state and local school systems; improved reporting and information dissemination
