Final Exam - Pedagogy

Which of the following activities best supports improving middle school students' engagement in experiments during science class?

Conducting debriefing activities where students discuss the validity and implications of the experiments.

A teacher is beginning a new unit of study covering cultures. To best meet the student's needs and drive instruction, the teacher's first step should be to

administer an anticipation guide to activate prior knowledge of the cultures.

A middle school science teacher notices that a student's grades are a little lower than usual since the class began a chemistry unit. To best facilitate communication with the student's parents, the teacher should

call the parents as soon as possible regarding the matter.

Which THREE of the following are important factors to consider when establishing routines for cooperative group work?

- goals to be met - individual accountability - equal opportunities

A high school teacher's goal is to scaffold reading of nonfiction texts for English-language learners who are at the beginning level of English-language proficiency in reading. To best achieve the goal, the teacher should provide which of the following scaffolds for the students?

Adapted texts that will reduce the amount of reading

An eighth-grade science teacher is currently planning a research project where students will be working in groups over a span of three weeks. When the teacher is organizing the groups, which of the following actions will best foster a successful collaboration among group members?

Asking each group to draft a work plan that includes responsibilities to review with the teacher

Mr. Larson is an eleventh-grade English teacher whose class includes students at various levels of English-language proficiency. Before teaching new vocabulary, Mr. Larson gives students a survey in which they evaluate their current level of understanding of a list of content-based vocabulary. For each word, they must decide if they lack familiarity with it, understand it, or are able to explain it to others. The primary benefit of this method of instruction is that it encourages the students to

Assess their own knowledge

A middle school math teacher begins a lesson by asking students to find the area of a certain shape. The teacher then directs the students to draw the same shape twice as large as the first and find the area of the larger one. In closing the lesson, the teacher asks the students what happens to the area when the size is doubled. The structure of the lesson best demonstrates the teacher's understanding of which of the following learning theories?

Constructivist

Which of the following strategies best supports a teacher's goal to incorporate critical thinking skills into language arts lessons?

Creating a forum for students to debate points of view

In the conversation, Mr. Canales best demonstrates an understanding of the importance of developing rapport with parents by doing which of the following?

Discussing Collin's personal activities and individual contributions to the class

A teacher wants to increase parental involvement for a kindergarten class. After some parents did not attend the school open house at the beginning of the year, the teacher set up home visits with three families. Which of the following is the most important reason for home visits?

Engaging with the family

Mr. Richard's seventh-grade class will be assigned a long-term research project. Students are required to complete and submit the project in stages. Which of the following strategies would best support the students in completing each stage of the project in a timely manner?

Establishing guidelines for each stage with completion dates

Which of the following teacher actions will best promote parents as partners in their child's education?

Having the parents sign their child's progress report so they can monitor the child's learning

A teacher changes the arrangement of desks in the classroom from rows to a circle facing the center. Which of the following is the primary benefit of the adjustment?

Maximizing students' opportunities for interaction and discussion.

At the beginning of the school year, an elementary school teacher wants to establish clear school procedures. To best achieve the goal, the teacher should have students

Practice the school procedures.

A teacher gives the class an assignment and describes the proper procedures for gathering the necessary supplies and for returning the supplies to their proper place after using them. A primary purpose of describing the procedures is to

Promote students' organizational skills.

Every week a teacher who has a personal interest in music shares with the class current news about musicians and music events and then displays the articles on a bulletin board. The teacher then encourages students to share current events of their own choosing with the class. By doing this the teacher is

Promoting a passion for learning.

A class is learning about the impact a famous person had on society. As an enrichment activity, the teacher allows students to choose any person that has influenced their life in a positive way and write about that person. By giving students a choice, the teacher best demonstrates an understanding of the importance of

Promoting motivation to better engage students in the learning process.

In a science class that includes English-language learners (ELLs), a teacher encourages all students to monitor their own level of understanding by having them take notes in their journal as they read assigned texts. What is the primary purpose of teaching ELLs in particular the skill of learning how to monitor understanding?

Promoting the students' ability to adjust their thinking as needed

. Which of the following strategies is most appropriate for assisting English-language learners (ELLs) at the beginning level of proficiency with reading content-specific material?

Providing instruction on text-based academic vocabulary prior to reading.

A kindergarten teacher is beginning a new unit on rocks. As an introduction to the unit, which of the following instructional strategies best facilitates students' learning through active play?

Providing students with a variety of rocks for sensory discovery and then discussing their findings

Which of the following is the most effective informal strategy for continuous monitoring of student learning?

Questioning students during daily class discussions.

After analyzing the data, Mr. Canales' most appropriate next step is to

create flexible-learning groups based on benchmark scores.

To best help parents from culturally diverse backgrounds actively participate in school, a teacher should

explain to parents how to join a parent organization.

A middle school reading teacher wants to help English-language learners who are at the intermediate level of language proficiency in speaking to accelerate their ability to correctly use English syntax. To best achieve the goal, the teacher should have students

practice using pretaught sentence stems with simple sentence structures and tenses during collaborative activities.

At the conclusion of a parent-teacher conference about Bobbie, the teacher and parents agree on a way to monitor how well she is doing on her behavior contract, which was written to reinforce appropriate behaviors at school. By agreeing to and following the procedure, the teacher and the parents demonstrate an understanding that

purposeful family involvement in a student's education helps to promote positive behaviors.