FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #2 ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION)
(MULTIPLE CHOICES) (A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
LATEST VERSION 2025
Which of the following would require inductive thinking?
(A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for
resources affect population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research
the topic to find possible answers.
(B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make
a Venn diagram to show what they learned.
(C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it.
(D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution
and then has the students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. -
(ANSWER)(A) Inductive thinking starts with a question, then students must find
the answer through experimentation or research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holmes was famous for his inductive reasoning.
A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is
reading at a 75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student
takes a multiple-choice quiz on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What
does this mean?
(A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a
more level-appropriate text.
(B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to
comprehend the text.
,(C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before
taking the assessment.
(D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. -
(ANSWER)(A) Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words
in a given text and is showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the
student in the scenario is reading well below instructional level.
Who elects parents to the school advisory council?
(A) School board members
(B) School instructional staff
(C) Other parents
(D) The principal and vice-principal - (ANSWER)(C) Parents are elected to the
school advisory council by other parents.
According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a
professional educator's primary concern?
(A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing
excellence in the profession.
(B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to
excellence, and acquisition of knowledge.
(C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of
colleagues, students, parents, and other members of the community.
(D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the
development of the student's potential. - (ANSWER)(D) The educator's primary
concerns will always be for the student and for the development of the student's
potential.
,If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal
effect on the students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided?
(A) Multiple choice
(B) Cloze assessments
(C) True/false questions
(D) Essay questions - (ANSWER)(C) Standard true/false questions give students a
50 percent chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified
true/false questions that require students to rewrite false statements to make
them true.
A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to
make eye contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into
account?
(A) Respect is earned, not demanded.
(B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures.
(C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of
the above - (ANSWER)(B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior
adult is a sign of disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds
of their students and not expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable
in their native culture.
A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to
brainstorm a detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to
secede. Why would the teacher start the lesson this way?
(A) To conduct a formative assessment.
, (B) To conduct a summative assessment.
(C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students.
(D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. -
(ANSWER)(C) Activating prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence
between lessons. Graphic organizers such as KWL charts give students an
opportunity to record what they already know (K), what they want to know (W),
and eventually what they learned (L).
At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit
ticket that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses
them. The exit ticket is used?
(A) as a classroom management technique.
(B) to assess students' ability to follow directions.
(C) as a tool to document learning gains.
(D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. -
(ANSWER)(D) Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned
during a lesson and what parts of the new material still needs to be addressed.
A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately
comprehending the meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of
letter-sound recognition activities to help the student improve their reading skills.
On what skill is the teacher focusing?
(A) Encoding
(B) Decoding
(C) Semantics
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION)
(MULTIPLE CHOICES) (A+ GRADED 100% VERIFIED)
LATEST VERSION 2025
Which of the following would require inductive thinking?
(A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for
resources affect population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research
the topic to find possible answers.
(B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make
a Venn diagram to show what they learned.
(C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it.
(D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution
and then has the students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. -
(ANSWER)(A) Inductive thinking starts with a question, then students must find
the answer through experimentation or research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holmes was famous for his inductive reasoning.
A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is
reading at a 75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student
takes a multiple-choice quiz on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What
does this mean?
(A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a
more level-appropriate text.
(B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to
comprehend the text.
,(C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before
taking the assessment.
(D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. -
(ANSWER)(A) Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words
in a given text and is showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the
student in the scenario is reading well below instructional level.
Who elects parents to the school advisory council?
(A) School board members
(B) School instructional staff
(C) Other parents
(D) The principal and vice-principal - (ANSWER)(C) Parents are elected to the
school advisory council by other parents.
According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a
professional educator's primary concern?
(A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing
excellence in the profession.
(B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to
excellence, and acquisition of knowledge.
(C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of
colleagues, students, parents, and other members of the community.
(D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the
development of the student's potential. - (ANSWER)(D) The educator's primary
concerns will always be for the student and for the development of the student's
potential.
,If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal
effect on the students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided?
(A) Multiple choice
(B) Cloze assessments
(C) True/false questions
(D) Essay questions - (ANSWER)(C) Standard true/false questions give students a
50 percent chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified
true/false questions that require students to rewrite false statements to make
them true.
A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to
make eye contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into
account?
(A) Respect is earned, not demanded.
(B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures.
(C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of
the above - (ANSWER)(B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior
adult is a sign of disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds
of their students and not expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable
in their native culture.
A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to
brainstorm a detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to
secede. Why would the teacher start the lesson this way?
(A) To conduct a formative assessment.
, (B) To conduct a summative assessment.
(C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students.
(D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. -
(ANSWER)(C) Activating prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence
between lessons. Graphic organizers such as KWL charts give students an
opportunity to record what they already know (K), what they want to know (W),
and eventually what they learned (L).
At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit
ticket that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses
them. The exit ticket is used?
(A) as a classroom management technique.
(B) to assess students' ability to follow directions.
(C) as a tool to document learning gains.
(D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. -
(ANSWER)(D) Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned
during a lesson and what parts of the new material still needs to be addressed.
A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately
comprehending the meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of
letter-sound recognition activities to help the student improve their reading skills.
On what skill is the teacher focusing?
(A) Encoding
(B) Decoding
(C) Semantics
