Professional study guide test

If a student makes a comment concerning something interesting but unrelated to what happened in classes, the teacher must respond with

"Can we relate this to our discussion? If not, we will save it for later"

An English teacher who wants her students to appreciate Shakespeare, wants to convert this objective into a form of behavioral objective. The first question she needs to ask is

"How can I measure students' individual perception of Shakespeare's work?"

An example of a transition statement is

"Now class, let's put all books away and get ready for music"

A teacher is setting the stage for a learning process. The best introductory remark will be

"What is unusual about the picture on the bulletin board?"

77. Teachers expect to find the greatest fluctuations in the physical, social, and intellectual development of a student between the ages of

12-15

The silent period varies from

2 weeks to 2 years or more

When a teacher has been dismissed by the school board for inappropriate behavior, the teacher's former superintendent must report the teacher to the

Florida Department of Education

The best instruction to give students who are getting ready to take a test is

Read the directions carefully, then read all options before marking your answer

What does a student's grade of 5.2 on a national standardized reading test mean?

Reading achievement is comparable to the average student in the second month of fifth grade

What should be used as a preliminary guideline in planning the content for a course?

State and district goals

A divergent thinker is best described as one who is

a careful observer; sees things from different perspectives and looks for meanings of things

To find out if students have mastered the instructional objectives at the end of the unit, the teacher must use

a diagnostic test

To know if your student's knowledge of a subject is similar to that of other students throughout the country, you need to use

a norm-references achievement test

Conducting a 20 minute review session each Monday during class is an illustration of

a periodic review enhances long term memory

In selecting materials for a course, the teacher has particular concerns for the needs of a student with a developmental disability who will be unable to use materials selected for other students. The most appropriate procedure for the teacher to follow in this situation is to

adapt materials based on the objectives of the course to be used by the special student

The Education Practice Commission may permanently revoke the educator's certificate once an educator is

adjudged delinquent in meeting a court ordered child support obligation

The most efficient use of computer lab time for an elementary class orientation when each student has access to a computer is to

allow individual students structured hands on experiences

The best procedure to address the need of a classroom containing non English speaking students is

allowing these students to use their native language when necessary

A student has recently become irritable, argumentative, nervous, and restless in class. These changes in behavior may indicate abuse of

amphetamines

A high school honors the highest achieving students at an academic award ceremony banquet every year, where they are presented scholarship vouchers for college. This event is an example of

an incentives program

If a teacher asks students to explain how different British responses were to some events that changed the outcome of the American Revolutionary war, he wants them to develop

analytical skills

National board certified teachers are considered highly effective because they have

analyzed and reflected on their lessons as they relate to a set of standards

An activity that would best foster critical thinking of high school students is

analyzing a political cartoon

When a teacher has new students from culturally different backgrounds from the majority of the class, it is best for the teacher to

arrange for the new students to demonstrate games they play in their culture because sharing knowledge will help to enrich learning by all students and the teacher

When students in a class with varied interests and abilities are having difficulties communicating and establishing relationships t is best to

arrange seating so that the students with high ability are next to someone who needs help

In teaching math and science, a teacher wants students to analyze information and to adjudge, or express a value. The teacher should stimulate high level thinking skills of the students by

asking students to compare and evaluate situations

Speech and language delays and abnormal ways of relating to people, objects, and events are characteristics of

autism

When students are making fun of a new student from a non-western country who has been added to a class, the teacher must

begin a unit on non-western cultures and have students learn the cultures of these countries

The best procedure for a teacher to liven up the discussion portion of a lesson to increase student participation is

by asking questions that require students to show, explain, or describe

As she leaves the classroom, a student whispers to the teacher that she thinks another student has a knife in her purse. The teacher should first

call the office to inform the designated administrator

To assess a student's reading comprehension of a passage, an alternative to a multiple choice test would be having the student do a

cloze activity on the passage

If you decide to monitor the progress of your students more carefully after they have failing grades at the end of each unit, you must

conduct assessment at selected periods or stages during instruction

High school students are studying the US democratic elections. An assignment to best foster critical thinking about issues that would impact the next actual election would be:

conducting a poll on residents' concerns and predicting election results based on the data analysis

When a teacher presents content in small units, uses positive and negative reinforcements, and shapes the environment for successive approximations, he is applying the

connectionist learning theory

A teacher who plans content rich lessons targeting all students' learning styles in various activities and group work should also

consider requirements from the school district

Teachers who promote freedom and responsibility in their classrooms believe that the business of running a self definition will be described as

constructivists

An activity aimed to enhance an individual teacher's growth and performance in the classroom is

creating a professional development plan

Which strategy is best if a teacher wants to emphasize significant concepts and information

critical questioning techniques

The technique most effective for correcting students' errors is

critique

A teacher willing to introduce a new unit provides ideas of novel instructional materials and activities to encourage a student to do some exploring. This intrinsic instructional activity is

curiosity

A teacher is teaching a unit requiring students to obtain considerable amounts of current information on a topic from electronic sources. The best type of computer network for this purpose is a

database software network

A 10th grade teacher is planning a unit of instruction requiring the students to use equipment and materials that could cause injury if not used properly. The best solution for this problem is to

demonstrate the proper use of equipment or materials and monitor their use by students

Anybody found lying on his or her application for Florida teacher's certification would be

denied, because it is a fraudulent application

The amount of time a student is on task can be assessed only by

direct observation

A teacher action that will request students to complete a project on the same topic, but one project has gaps that cause concern

discussing the strengths and weaknesses, and provide an opportunity for revision

Before beginning a new instructional unit, a teacher administers a pretest and finds that half of the students do not have the necessary prerequisite skills for the new unit. The teacher should

divide the class into two groups and provide remedial activities for those who did not pass the pretest

A biology teacher who designs an experiment of creative thinking is LEAST concerned with the students'

documentation of their experiments

Brown v Board of Education established that equal access

does not guarantee equal opportunity

All of the following are purposes of today's public schools except

ensuring the continuity of cultural homogeneity

The most effective teacher response when a student asks for help on an oral report competition is to

establish a sequencing plan and follow it

The most appropriate method of determining a student's proficiency in reading is to

examine the student's achievement scores

A mother insists that her child is gifted and should be placed in the gifted program. When the placement is denied, the mother asked the teacher for the IQ scores of other children in the gifted class so that she can compare her child's scores with others. The teacher should

explain to the mother that the law of privacy protects confidentiality of students' records

A teacher whose students use the network classroom with no internet access should be most concerned about

file deletion

A teacher is disturbed because students are unable to recall important details and miss the main points in oral presentations. The teacher must

give students a resource list for each presentation

To help students do well on an exam, the teacher must include in his test taking skills training, advice to

go back and check answers

To help students who are having difficulty relating to other racially or culturally different students, the teacher should emphasize

group academic program from self-concept

A teacher of a class of gifted, highly motivated students ages 10-12 is planning a class lesson. The teacher wants students to develop their own concepts and principles for the lesson. The instructional strategy most appropriate for this situation is

guided discovery

For a 6th grade social studies class with both native English speakers and ESOL students who are about to study Greek mythology, the teacher's best approach is to

have a competition to see which students had the most creative way of meeting the lesson's objectives

A teacher is probing when

he uses HOW, WHY, etc. questioning in class discussions

To best help 10th grade students who are studying the American Revolution develop analytical skills, the teacher should ask students to discuss

how different responses about the same event could have changed the outcome of the American Revolutionary War

A teacher should rearrange the seating pattern in the class so that seats form a horse shoe to

increase eye contact between students

A student with taurette's syndrome exhibits:

involuntary tics and language utterances

The most effective strategy for engaging an ongoing dialogue with educators about the assessment of ESOL and ESE students is to

join an online discussion group's conversation about assessment

The technique that most effectively established a 9th grade teacher's expectations for assignments was:

keeping a list of due dates for each assignment for the grading period

From a social learning view point, a student who lacks perseverance, accepts faults, and avoids responsibility has developed

learned helplessness

To maximize students' learning, the teacher must

make the learning meaningful to the students

If a student says, "The lesson is boring, I don't like it" and the teacher replies, "If it is boring, let's talk a little about it" the method of correcting errors that the teacher is using is

modeling

The educational theory on which a teacher will base an assignment that requires knowledge in different subject areas is

multiple intelligences

A social studies teacher would like to know if her student's knowledge of social studies is similar to that of other students throughout the United States. The type of standardized test to BEST give the teacher this information is a

norm-referenced achievement test

Some of the students are unable to read the textbook. The teacher should handle the situation by

obtaining alternate forms of this textbook for the students

Students who have acquired basic interpersonal communication skills (BICS) will be able to use English in

ordering lunch in the school cafeteria, greeting the principal, and playing a game with classmates

The professional development opportunity that is best for a new teacher is

participation in school improvement meetings

Before copying a large quantity of a copy righted material

permission must be obtained from the publisher

According to current research, an efficient use of time at the beginning of the period is to

post assignments on the board so students can begin work when they enter class

The following scenario is an example of which communication strategy? "Students, it was important for our president to meet the leader of China to promote open communications between the leaders of two of the most powerful countries in the world." Teacher: "How would such a meeting promote open communication?"

probing

Teachers who want to encourage ESOL students to interact in the classroom should

promote linguistic risk taking

A strategy that would most effectively encourage multi-disciplinary studies is

promoting instructional reading and writing in content areas

A strategy a teacher would use to meet the needs of kinesthetic learners is

provide hands-on materials to illustrate major concepts

A teacher finds that a large number of her beginning students come to class and quickly go to work. They complete their work, then they begin to whisper, play, or sit until the end of class doing nothing useful. An end of period strategy likely to keep students on task all period is to

provide interesting, subject related materials and activities for students who finish early

The goal of specially designed academic instruction in English is

providing content support for ESOL students

The most appropriate teacher reaction when the teacher finds out that students repeating a class become disinterested in class activities and fail to complete assignments is

providing opportunities for students to experience success

A teacher discovers that a student has brought a pint of whiskey to class. The best teacher response to this discovery is to

refer the student to the principal

If a teacher is not satisfied with a lesson he taught and notes where it could have been improved to meet his student's learning needs, the teacher is engaged in

reflection

A student brings a computer disk that contains a copy right educational game that a teacher needs for her math class to school. The student offers to make a copy of the program for the teacher. The teacher should

refuse the offer but allow the student to use the program during class

When students have difficulty using standard English at school, it is best for the teacher to

reinforce correct usage; make some corrections and serve as a positive model

When a teacher applies Skinner's theory of learning to classroom instruction, she is

reinforcing the students positively

The teacher asks, "What is an equilateral triangle?" The student answers: " A triangle which has two equal legs." An effective response from the teacher is

remember our clue that we used yesterday that came from a Latin word that sounds like equal

When a teacher finds another teacher in an intimate embrace with one of their students, it is his ethical obligation to

report the case to the school principal

An activity a science teacher can best use to strengthen 11th grade students' skills in another subject area for developing science knowledge is

requesting that students write a process analysis of an experiment

The best procedure for providing feedback after a classroom test is

return test papers to students and go over each question

The best procedure for preparing a class of high achieving students to take a standardized aptitude test is to

review examples of the types of questions on the test

85. An appropriate accommodation for a student with a visual impairment is

seating the student in a well-lit area away from a light source to help reduce glare

According to Maslow's hierarchy, the highest level of needs is

self actualization

The type of software that is best for demonstrating different chemical reactions for a science class is

simulations

All of the following are components of an effective school except

students are pressured to succeed

As it relates to students' performance and instructional ability, 'self-fulfilling prophecy' means

students perform according to the teacher's perception of the student's abilities

A lesson best for critical thinking skills of middle school science students as they review the concept of friction is

students write a paragraph to describe the source of friction and ways it affects motion

A resource to provide a teacher with data for grouping all students before the first week of reading instruction is

students' report cards from the previous year

A 9th grade student responds to overtures of other students with hostility and has extreme mood swings. The teacher should have the student

talk with the counselor today or tomorrow at the latest

An activity that provides the best information in developing a new curriculum unit for a high school teacher teaching chemistry who wants to add a forensic science unit is to

team teach with a peer science teacher

The complaint and all information obtained during an investigation of an educator by the Florida Department of Education is confidential until

the hearing officer's finding of fact is determined

The first step in selecting a new arrangement for a classroom where students often bump into each other when they are going to the pencil sharpener, trash can, or the water fountain is to consider

the physical environment requirements for different types of teaching strategies

A statement about classroom management supported by current research findings is

the proximity of a teacher to a student affects student's conduct

In Florida, the code of ethics of educator's primary professional concern is

the student and the development of the student's potential

A high school teacher wants to foster his students' critical thinking skills. The lesson he should assess them on is

the students interview recent immigrants and compose a comparing and contrasting text on immigration

A high school math teacher would like his students to explore geometric shapes-their forms, functions, and uses in daily life. An activity to best promote students' clear thinking of how to accomplish the teacher's goal is

the students use multimedia resources to identify and analyze geometric shapes found in daily life

When faced with the need to adapt materials for students to master the objectives, the most important variable to consider is

their stage of cognitive development

One characteristic of physically abused young children is that

they are aggressive and angry

According to Piaget's theories, most middle school students have the capacity to

think systematically about abstract and hypothetical concepts

A teacher action most likely to help develop students' divergent thinking abilities is

to ask students to discuss the ways to combat pollution in their area

The strategy a teacher should use if students continue to have difficulties learning material after instruction is

to assign a peer tutor to work with the student

An in-service training to develop teachers' critical thinking skills in fostering ESL students' parents to help their children acquire content and language knowledge is

to brainstorm a list of strategies in small groups

A teacher wants to improve the writing and thinking abilities of her students. An appropriate activity is

to engage the student in an imaginary exercise related to the topic on which they are to write

During the 6th class meeting, a teacher seeks the cooperation of the class in establishing certain ground rules about classroom behavior. The purpose of this activity is

to gain students' commitment to the rules

A strategy that best helps a new teacher improve classroom management skills is

to observe peer teachers

A useful strategy for helping students accept and follow classroom rules and standards for behaving is:

to request that a list of procedures be developed by student groups

A teacher writing sentences on the board is disturbed by mild talking in the class. "No more talking" the teacher said, pausing. The talking stops momentarily, but soon the noise level increases again. A non verbal behavior that might best be used to quiet the students is

to turn, establishing eye contact

A practice that does the most to perpetuate educational inequality is

tracking

The purpose underlying the enactment of the concern decree (META) was to

understand and successfully meet the various linguistic and cultural needs for non English speaking students

A teacher finds that the students quickly become bored and uninterested in the textbooks. The best teacher action needed in this situation is to

use a variety of mediums and materials appropriate to student needs and use a variety of seatwork activities in place of workbooks

A teacher wishes to evaluate a student's ability to apply concepts that have been presented in class. Test items should require students to

use the concepts in novel situations

If a teacher wants to improve the reliability of his test because they are inconsistent, he must

use the same rules for each test

The procedure most useful in making the academic assignments meet the needs of ESE students is

varying the length and depth of the assignment

An activity that provides the best feedback for a teacher who is unsure his instructional method is effective is to

videotape a lesson to review and analyze strategies

A teacher action considered to be part of the communication technique for active listening is

when the teacher restates the students' message

After a presentation of information about an assignment, a teacher realizes that the students do not understand how to complete the handout. The teacher should

work through one example from the handout with the students

To have 4th grade students creatively demonstrate their understanding of the independence of ocean life, a teacher should ask students to

write a play that illustrates the inter-relationship

A recommended method of improving the reliability of essay exams is

write test questions that are focused and explicit