FTCE Professional Education Practice Test
#1 Questions and Answers
1. A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they
could use the word HOMES to help them remember the names of
the Great Lakes
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quickly
recognize that the first letters of the names of the lakes can be
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to memorizing
information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote
Answer A
2. During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes
would it be appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended
questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity
Answer A
,3. After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade
language arts teacher consults a colleague about how to improve the
quality of students' writ-ing assignments. The teacher's decision to
ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the following
principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective
practition-ers.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make
decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of
desired outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices.
Answer A
4. Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end
of a com-puter simulation activity to promote students'
evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the
simulation activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell
why they did or did not like the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in
the
simulation activity.
,D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they
learned from the simulation activity.
Answer B
5. Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate
their writ-ing projects. The teacher observes a few students who are
artistically talented making rude comments about the drawings of
their classmates who are less artistically inclined. The teacher
immediately lets the rude students know that such behavior will not
be tolerated. The best follow-up response from the teacher to
this situation is to
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the
Internet to illustrate their writing project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their classmates
who are less artistically inclined to help them create better
drawings.
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and talk
with them about respecting others.
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude
behavior and enforce the consequences consistently
Answer A
6. Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida
Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct?
A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue concerning a
, student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
C. representing one's personal views as those or the school district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school
Answer C
7. In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that
focuses on using reading as the foundation to improve student
achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the following
ways would be best for promoting struggling middle school
readers' growth as effective and competent readers of expository
text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically
challenging assign-ments that are reading-intensive
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to
use different comprehension strategies and to repair
comprehension problems
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice of
skimming through every text that they plan to read before
actually reading it.
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in
the content areas as much on their adherence to specific
processes as on the content of the final product
Answer B
#1 Questions and Answers
1. A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they
could use the word HOMES to help them remember the names of
the Great Lakes
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quickly
recognize that the first letters of the names of the lakes can be
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to memorizing
information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote
Answer A
2. During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes
would it be appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended
questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity
Answer A
,3. After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade
language arts teacher consults a colleague about how to improve the
quality of students' writ-ing assignments. The teacher's decision to
ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the following
principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective
practition-ers.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make
decisions.
C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of
desired outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices.
Answer A
4. Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end
of a com-puter simulation activity to promote students'
evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the
simulation activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell
why they did or did not like the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in
the
simulation activity.
,D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they
learned from the simulation activity.
Answer B
5. Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate
their writ-ing projects. The teacher observes a few students who are
artistically talented making rude comments about the drawings of
their classmates who are less artistically inclined. The teacher
immediately lets the rude students know that such behavior will not
be tolerated. The best follow-up response from the teacher to
this situation is to
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the
Internet to illustrate their writing project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their classmates
who are less artistically inclined to help them create better
drawings.
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and talk
with them about respecting others.
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude
behavior and enforce the consequences consistently
Answer A
6. Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida
Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct?
A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue concerning a
, student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
C. representing one's personal views as those or the school district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school
Answer C
7. In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that
focuses on using reading as the foundation to improve student
achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the following
ways would be best for promoting struggling middle school
readers' growth as effective and competent readers of expository
text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically
challenging assign-ments that are reading-intensive
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to
use different comprehension strategies and to repair
comprehension problems
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice of
skimming through every text that they plan to read before
actually reading it.
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in
the content areas as much on their adherence to specific
processes as on the content of the final product
Answer B
