FTCE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
PRACTICE TEST #1 EXAM 2024/2025
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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts
teacher consults a colleague about how to improve the quality of
students' writing 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
practitioners.
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. -
Precise Answer ✔✔A
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a
computer 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. - Precise Answer ✔✔B
Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate their
writing 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
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 - Precise Answer
✔✔C
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
assignments 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔B
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area
learning for students in the class who have histories of limited academic
success. To ensure fair and accurate assessment of these students, it
would be most appropriate for the teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as
observations, interviews, test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in
assessing their acquisition of knowledge and skills. - Precise Answer
✔✔C
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is
frowning. The teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following
exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
PRACTICE TEST #1 EXAM 2024/2025
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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts
teacher consults a colleague about how to improve the quality of
students' writing 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
practitioners.
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. -
Precise Answer ✔✔A
Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a
computer 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. - Precise Answer ✔✔B
Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate their
writing 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔A
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 - Precise Answer
✔✔C
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
assignments 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 - Precise Answer ✔✔B
A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area
learning for students in the class who have histories of limited academic
success. To ensure fair and accurate assessment of these students, it
would be most appropriate for the teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as
observations, interviews, test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in
assessing their acquisition of knowledge and skills. - Precise Answer
✔✔C
After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is
frowning. The teacher walks over to Carl's desk and the following
exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
