Texas Teachers Assessment 4 - Elementary 700.4AE
How many intelligences does Gardner identify?
8
Which of the following best summarizes metacognition?
A strategy students can use before, during, and after reading to think about, question, have control over and better understand their reading.
Decide which of the following differentiated activities is at the Tier 2, mastery level:
A student uses the vocabulary words he/she has learned to write a short story.
Cooperative learning can best be described as...
A teaching strategy that allows students the opportunity to learn by doing and working both alone and together to complete a task or project.
What is the difference between the input phase of the lesson and the anticipatory phase of the lesson?
The input phase is a time to inspire students to learn and model what they will be able to do whereas the anticipatory phase engages students and introduces the content.
What effective feedback might you provide for a student whose science project did NOT meet your objectives?
Your hypothesis statement does not use the correct formatting of "if" and "then" and your lab report is missing important data on your experiments.
How does teacher pacing of a lesson affect students and/or classroom environment?
If a teacher moves too quickly then the slower students may lack a complete understanding of the content. If a teacher moves too slowly then the more advanced student can become restless and miss important information later.
Which of the following might be text features of a social studies textbook?
Maps and pictures of countries and continents
What three 21st century skills does the Maker Movement support?
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Why is differentiation of process necessary for English Language Learners?
Because they need sheltered instruction and language supports to understand and make sense of content.
What is a blog?
A blog is an online tool that allows teachers and students to write and create content on a subject and share publicly.
Why is it necessary for students to be able to decode words?
Being able to decode words allows students to build fluency and increases their reading comprehension.
In which of the following scenarios is the teacher differentiating the learning environment:
Ms. Gonzalez, a fifth-grade reading teacher has a variety of reading "nooks" in the room. During silent reading time, some students sit in bean bag chairs, others on the floor with blankets and pillows, some in desks and a few outside in the hallway right outside her room.
Formative assessment can be described as:
Ongoing, continuous assessment to monitor student work and progress which can include, exit slips, conferences and homework.
What are the benefits of developing a Professional Learning Network?
Provides a platform and an opportunity for educators to collaborate, communicate, share ideas and resources, and build community to improve and expanding their learning.
Which of the following is an example of differentiating the product for students in a fifth-grade reading class who are supposed to read and describe the parts of a story in a book they've read?
Providing some students with a story map after they read the book to outline the events of the story, allowing kinesthetic or tactile learners the opportunity to rewrite the book as a skit and perform it for the class, and letting visual learners draw out the events of the book and deliver a presentation on the visuals.
Identify which of the following activities is NOT an example of independent practice.
Students in an Algebra class are watching and listening to the teacher complete a problem on the board and taking notes.
Mrs. Jackson, a math teacher is modeling step by step how her third-grade students can answer double digit multiplication problems. She thinks aloud as she answers each problem and asks students for help along the way, saying "What should I do next?" She is modeling:
The process.
What is a benefit of allowing students enough time to think after you ask a question?
They can process the question and don't feel as pressured or anxious when called.
During guided practice, why should a teacher begin with simple examples first?
To build student confidence so that as they move to more complex examples they feel prepared to complete the task.
What is the purpose of the anticipatory set or focus activity at the beginning of a lesson?
To engage the student's attention toward the learning objective.
True/False: The action-flow lesson plan provides ample opportunities for student engagement and variety within the lesson.
True because the action flow lesson plan moves quickly building momentum throughout the lesson.
Mr. Jones has decided to read the book Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory with his fourth-grade students. Once they have been read the first few chapters and been introduced to all the characters, he wants the students to compare two of their favorite characters. Which of the following graphic organizers would work best for this goal?
Venn Diagram
What is the main purpose for understanding and using the ISTE Standards for Teachers, Students, Coaches and Administrators?
Allows for the successful implementation of digital strategies that impact learning, teaching, and working in a digital world.
What are the two conditions for using effective models or exemplars?
1) The model is accurate and correct when first introduced. 2) Criteria for the model is clearly stated.
Which of these is NOT an example of how to teach/incorporate digital citizenship into the classroom?
A history teacher has decided to use digital textbooks in his classroom. During the first week of class he explains to students how to access and read the digital text in a meaningful way.
Dyslexia is defined as:
A learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words.
What is the difference between a learning objective and a lesson activity?
A learning objective is what students are supposed to know and be able to do whereas the lesson activity is the task they complete to help them master the objective.
Mr. Johnson wants to start differentiating his curriculum but he doesn't know where or how to begin. Which of the following steps would you suggest he take?
Administer a learning styles inventory and determine which learning objectives and lessons he could adapt or revise to begin incorporating student's learning styles in his content delivery, classroom activities, and assessments.
The following activity is an example of what: Mr. Cole is a ninth-grade English teacher who is about to begin a unit on poetry, he has asked his students to print out and bring to class the lyrics to their favorite song. When students arrive in class he asks them to underline instances of rhyme and repetition in the lyrics they brought. He has students discuss their findings with a partner and then share aloud with the class as a whole. He then explains to students that song lyrics are poetry set to music and that they will see many of the same elements in poetry that they do in their favorite songs.
Anticipatory Set or Focus Activity
Read the scenario below and decide which strategy the teacher should use. Mrs. Castro is a fourth-grade teacher. She has been using cooperative learning groups in her class for the first couple of months during the school year. Lately, she has noticed that usually one or two students in each group is doing the work while the others waste time and are disengaged. Which strategy below could best help Mrs. Castro solve this issue?
Assign project/group roles to each student.
Why is specific feedback important to student learning and growth?
Because it allows students the opportunity to better understand their mistakes, strengths and weaknesses, and apply that feedback to future practice and learning.
How does blended learning meet the diverse needs of students in a classroom?
Because it allows students the opportunity to control the time, pace, path, and pace of their learning so they can be engaged both in and out of the classroom.
Why is it important that teachers encourage student questions in the classroom?
Because it can help expand student thinking, increase student investment in the content, cultivate curiosity, and engage students on a deeper and more personal level.
Why is it important for teachers to use and teach students how to use strategies like the Get REAL strategy or the CRAP test to determine if information found online is reliable and trustworthy?
Because of the wealth of information that is available to students now and in the future, it is important they begin to discern what is reliable and true. It I also important for students to be able to make sense of the information they find so they do not learn, misinterpret, and/or share incorrect information.
A first grade student is exhibiting the following reading and writing behaviors: letter and word reversals, transpositions, trouble remembering facts, difficulty decoding single words. If you were this student's teacher what might be your next action step to help this student?
Begin and/or continue to take field notes while observing the child during reading and writing time. Collect the student's work in a portfolio and after gathering enough learning artifacts, speak with the learning specialist at your school to determine next steps.
_____________________ information is breaking the information into smaller, digestible bits of information, then later ______________________that information over a series of lessons.
Chunking, scaffolding
The following scenario is an example of what? Mrs. Robinson a middle school social studies teacher has just taught a lesson on listing, identifying and locating the seven continents on a map. Students have researched the continents online and labeled and colored a world map with the seven continents. At the end of class Mrs. Robinson asks students "what did we learn about today?" She calls on students to respond and takes the time to clarify any misunderstandings.
Closure
Determine which of the following collaborative learning expectations would be MOST useful for effective group work?
Come prepared and/or be responsible for your work Treat others with respect and dignity.
When using technology in the classroom, what should teachers consider first before using it?
Curricular learning objectives.
The process of translating print into speech by rapidly matching a letter or combination of letters to their sounds and recognizing the patterns that make syllables and words is known as:
Decoding
Mrs. Jameson is teaching students sh sound and the ch sound. Students learn, practice and review words such as "share," "chair," and "ship," "chip." What is teaching?
Diagraphs
When a teacher asks a question like: "Can you elaborate?" or "Tell me more about that..." They are:
Encouraging critical thinking
True/False: Differentiating content requires that students be pretested.
True- because it can help you identify which students do and don't require direct instruction.
What are the five guiding principles of cooperative learning?
Face to face promotive interaction, positive interdependence, individual accountability and personal responsibility, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and reflection or group processing.
Identify which of the following tools can help you build your Professional Learning Network:
Facebook, Twitter, & Blogs
What makes a classroom group and collaboration successful?
Flexible norms, trust, and community
What does flexible grouping allow?
For learning that is appropriately challenging and avoids labeling a student's readiness as static.
What are the some of the qualities of a good reader?
Good readers know why they are reading a text and can question, infer, predict and evaluate a text to determine what it's about and whether they like it.
What is a rubric?
Grading criteria that the student is given prior to completing an assignment.
Joseph, in Mrs. Roebeck's fifth grade math class cannot seem to grasp the concept of long division. He consistently answers problems wrong in class, on homework assignments, and on the most recent quiz. Joseph is beginning to dislike math class. Mrs. Roebeck overheard him tell the other students that he is "not good at math" and so that must mean he is "dumb." What strategies could Mrs. Roebeck employ to promote a growth mindset in Joseph?
Guide Joseph through each step of the division process and provide positive feedback on the steps he completes correctly. Mrs. Roebeck needs to provide opportunities throughout the process for him to feel successful as they work together towards achieving the larger goal.
In her third-grade English and Language Arts class, Mrs. Ferdinand is teaching her students how to write an acrostic poem for springtime. After showing the class of an acrostic poem for the word spring, she asks the class to list a few other spring related words. Once they do, she chooses one and they work through each letter together as a class to write the acrostic poem for that word. Then, she assigns groups of four another springtime word to create an acrostic poem together. This is an example of:
Guided Practice
Students in a high school science class are watching their classmates give a presentation on a collaborative scientific experiment they researched and tested. Their teacher, Mr. Davidson would like for the class to provide feedback, ask questions, and engage in a discussion during each presentation without interrupting the presenters. Which of the following activities would help him achieve this goal?
He creates a backchannel discussion using the web based tool Today's Meet and asks students to use their devices to post questions and feedback comments throughout the presentations.
Mr. Gonzalez is a third-grade writing teacher. Over the school year he has been collecting student's writing in a portfolio. During each writing unit, he reviews each student portfolio to see how students have grown in their writing skills and where they still may need practice. What is Mr. Gonzalez doing and why?
He is collecting artifacts of learning as a form of formative assessment to better plan future lessons.
A history teacher wants to spend class time on having students discuss the pros and cons of the Civil War but he doesn't want to spend class time lecturing on the dates of battles won and lost for each side. What is a strategy he could use?
He/she can assign a reading assignment that covers these basic facts and concepts for homework and review them briefly in class before spending time on the critical thinking concepts
What is the relationship between independent practice and homework?
Homework can be given as a form of independent practice to help reinforce skills learned in the classroom.
A teacher is having trouble with class participation. When she asks questions only a few students raise their hands to respond and she always resorts to calling on these few bright students who know all the answers. Which of the following strategies would you recommend to help her increase student engagement and participation during discussions?
Implement a randomization strategy such as pulling popsicle sticks with student's names on them to encourage participation from all students. Have students answer the question with a partner first and then ask pairs to respond.
Mrs. Johansen has devised a strategy for calling on students in class during the question and answer portion of her lessons. Instead of calling only students who have their hands up, each student has been assigned a number and a family in a deck of cards. (i.e. queen of hearts) She asks her question, pausing for a moment, then she pulls a random card from the deck. If that student's card is pulled, he/she can answer the question. What strategy of effective questioning is Mrs. Johansen employing?
Including all students and keeping them engaged.
How would you categorize the following activity: You enter a third-grade classroom and see students working at various stations on multiplication, division, and fractions using worksheets, manipulatives and interactive web based games.
Independent Practice
What is the difference between independent practice and guided practice?
Independent practice occurs only when the teacher has ensured that students have achieved a basic level of skill to practice alone whereas guided practice occurs with the teacher modeling and working through exemplars with the students.
What is the difference between formal groups and informal groups in a classroom setting?
Informal groups are usually randomly selected and require students to work on short term goals and activities whereas formal groups require teachers to carefully select groups based on skills, ability and group dynamics. Formal groups are usually long term for students to work on a project or larger task.
The __________________________________ of lesson delivery is the identification and teaching of the main concepts and skills that students need to achieve mastery of the objective. It emphasizes clear explanations, provides models which are accurate and effective, and invites active student participation.
Input phase
What is the purpose or benefit of using a student-centered approach when incorporating Gardner's Multiple Intelligences into the classroom?
It allows students the opportunity to actively use their preferred intelligence to practice, and demonstrate an understanding of the concept to be more engaged and connected to the content.
What are the most important benefits of using technology in the classroom with your students?
It can help create opportunities for personalized learning experiences, collaboration, communication, creation, and critical thinking.
Administering a learning styles inventory and/or a student interest survey at the beginning of each school year is valuable because:
It can help you gather information about your students that will allow you to better understand how your students learn and what their interests are to create lessons and activities that engage them and meet varying learning needs.
Which of the following collaborative learning instructional strategies would you recommend for the following scenario? Mr. Davis wants his high school history students to understand the contents in chapter 12 of the history textbook. Chapter twelve is very long and very dense and he has found, that students seem bored and disengaged during his lectures. He has decided that he wants students to work together to learn the information. He knows all sections of the chapter are important and he wants to be sure all students get the content they need in an engaging and collaborative way. What strategy would you recommend?
Jigsaw so that he can assign each group a section of the chapter, they learn it, discuss it, become experts and then share the most important information with the class as they listen and take notes.
Mrs. Jacobs wants her students to collaborate, communicate, and submit work online for a group project they need to work on both in and outside of class. Which of the following tools could best help her achieve these goals?
Learning management systems like Edmodo and Schoology.
After reading the short story version of A Christmas Carol to her second-grade students, Mrs. Stevens asks her students the following questions: What do you think will happen to Scrooge after this Christmas experience? What other stories have your read or movies have you seen where someone really disliked something? Why do you think Scrooge changed his mind about Christmas? Mrs. Stevens is asking her students to:
Make inferences
Media literacy is taught in schools because:
Media is another form of communication that is everywhere and it is important for our students to learn how to understand, appreciate and interpret these messages.
In which of the following classroom scenarios is the teacher using a Flipped Learning model?
Mr. Jones has created a short six-minute video lecture on Chapter 9 in his History textbook. He asks students to watch his video at home for homework and answer ten questions via an online quiz. When students return to class the next day, they review their quiz answers and clarify misconceptions. Afterwards they engage in group discussions debating chapter 9 topics assigned by Mr. Jones.
Which of the following teachers is NOT cultivating student curiosity in the classroom?
Mrs. Sanders, a math teacher likes to begin each class with an online quiz about the homework from the night before and review student answers. She ends each class with an oral or written exit ticket with a series of at least five questions or math problems for the students to solve.
What can you infer is happening in the following scenario: The students in Ms. Gonzalez's fifth grade class walk into her room one day to find the desks toppled over, papers everywhere and the room a complete disaster. Ms. Gonzalez tells them to find a seat on the floor and watch the short video clip. She shows them a historical video of the 1900 hurricane storm that devastated Galveston, Island. After the film, she engages students in a discussion about the state of the room and the video clip.
Ms. Gonzalez is trying to engage her students with a focus activity and sensory experience anticipatory set about the effects of hurricanes.
Jason is a second-grade student in Ms. Forbes class. Today she wants them to choose a book and do some independent reading. As they read, she checks in on in each student individually and asks them to read a passage aloud. This is how she determines if the student has chosen an appropriate book on reading level. When she gets to Jason's desk he pauses for long periods of time after every couple of words, and when asked basic comprehension questions he cannot answer them. Should Jason be reading this book?
No because this book seems to be at his frustration level of reading which means that the book is too hard and he will have great difficulty understanding it.
The specific ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words is known as:
Phonemic Awareness
As a teacher, you can best use Gardner's theory on Multiple Intelligences to...
Plan engaging lessons to help your diverse classroom of students connect with and better understand the content.
Read the scenario below and determine which strategy the teacher is using. Mr. Pierre, a high school French teacher is teaching students how to order food in French. He begins class by showing pictures of various food and drink items and asks students to say them aloud together. He then asks students what are some of the ways they learned last class to order food. He lets a few students respond. He then asks students to role play various scenarios as if they were in a restaurant and they each must order different items off the menu using complete sentences. He circulates around the room providing assistance where needed and pauses to provide direct instruction when he identifies the need for clarification. He then allows a few pairs of students the chance to share their skits. At the end of class, he places a few sentences in English on the board and asks student to write down their French translations on a note card before leaving class.
Practice-Instruct-Review
Read the scenario below and determine which strategy is the teacher using. Mrs. Davidson, begins her fourth-grade writing class each day with a five minute free write on a topic chosen by the class. She then calls on two or three students to share what they wrote. Afterwards, students know to turn to the vocabulary section of their journals for the daily vocabulary lesson and game.
Predictability and Stability
Mr. Johnson is a second-grade teacher. He is teaching students about including adjectives in their writing to make it more interesting. Which of the following questions could he ask that would be MOST effective during a check for understanding? Question A: Is the word beautiful an adjective? Question B: An adjective is a word that describes a what? Question C: Who can give me an example of an interesting adjective to describe a horse?
Question C because it is an open-ended question with multiple correct answers that would allow many students the opportunity to respond.
What are the four categories of questioning?
Representing, Reasoning, Interpreting and Evaluating, and Communicating and Reflecting.
Mr. Stevenson is an elementary school science teacher. He wants his students to participate in the district science fair this school year. On the first day of his lesson on creating a science fair project, Mrs. Stevenson brings to class a former student's science fair display board and report. He introduces the concept of the science fair to the class and they discuss what they see on the display board and in the report. What is Mr. Stevenson doing in this scenario?
Showing an exemplar
An elementary school science teacher is interested in engaging her kinesthetic learners during a unit on weather. Which of the following activities should she consider?
She can introduce and reinforce different weather patterns and storms by having students play charades or act out with their bodies the various types of weather patterns.
Why is it important for students to access prior knowledge to be successful in acquiring new knowledge?
So a student can create schemas in his/her mind that create neural pathways for new learning and understanding.
Ms. Jackson, middle school science teacher has placed students in groups of three. She has provided each group with a tablet. For their assignment, students are taken outside and asked to take photographs of plant life and insects. As a group, they will then have to try and use what they've learned about environmental science to research and label the plants and insects. Ms. Jackson would like students to be able to collaborate on the final product and share their images for all to have access to the information for future reference. Which of the following tools would BEST help her achieve these goals?
Students can use Padlet or create a Wiki to post their labeled pictures and create a pinboard or permanent webpage with their findings.
The following scenario is an example of which ISTE Standard for Students? Students in Mrs. Miller's Spanish class are learning conversational Spanish vocabulary and grammar. Mrs. Miller wants students to practice their verbal and written Spanish. She has a colleague in Mexico who has agreed to collaborate with her to pair students in their classrooms to exchange online letters and engage in group discussions once a week via a moderated online chat room. Once a quarter, as a whole class they use a video conferencing program to have relevant discussions on sports, the weather and news events.
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
What is the relationship between monitoring and comprehension?
Students who monitor their comprehension and ask themselves "Do I understand what I'm reading?" have a better chance of improving their comprehension of what they read than those who don't.
A second grade teacher is teaching her students multi-syllable words. Before they read a short story, she introduces multi-syllable words students may have difficulty decoding. She sounds out the words such as: beau/ti/ful and com/plete/ly and asks students which letters make each sound. She then writes the word on the board and asks students to copy it and say it aloud. Then, they take turn reading parts of the story aloud sounding out the multi syllable words. Which method of phonics instruction is she using?
Synthetic phonics
Which of the following teachers has provided students with specific and timely feedback? Teacher A gave a math test two weeks ago. She returns the tests with percentage grades and tells students to ask her at the end of class if they have any questions on their grade. Teacher B has listened to student speeches in her class. She grades the speeches in class using a rubric and the day after all speeches have been delivered she returns the graded rubrics with notes to students. Teacher C has asked his history students to write a research paper during the first six weeks of the school year. He returns the graded research papers back to students at the end of the semester with check marks on the sections that he found interesting or meaningful and question marks on the sections he found confusing. Teacher D has created a student response quiz online. At the end of class, he projects the questions on the board and asks students to answer them using their devices. Immediately after all students have responded to the questions he projects the correct answers on the board. Students can view and compare their answers with the correct answers.
Teacher B is providing timely and specific feedback because she returns graded rubrics to students within one day of completing their speeches and provides notes that align with the objectives on the rubric.
Which of the following is the BEST summary description of the Write-Share-Learn strategy?
The teacher begins class with a question. Students jot down their answers and then share their responses with a partner in a short time frame allotted by the teacher. Pairs share out with the class what they discussed. Teacher leads class through direct instruction portion of the class and ends the lesson by asking students the initial question again. Students are then asked to write down a few things they learned from the day's lesson.
What is the difference between the written objective and the stated objective?
The written objective is the specific TEKS that the teacher writes in his/her lesson plan whereas the stated objective is a student friendly version of the TEKS objective that the teacher shares aloud with the students throughout the lesson.
Categorize the following question about the story of Alice in Wonderland: What kind of person was the Queen of Hearts? OR Describe the Queen of Hearts.
Think and search
According to Wiggins, what are the qualities of effective feedback?
Timely, specific, formed to allow for student adjustment, clearly communicated
What is the purpose of closure during a lesson?
To allow students the opportunity to mentally categorize and save what they've learned as well as clarify any final misunderstanding.
True/False: A teacher wants to incorporate technology into his/her own classroom but is afraid and isn't sure where to begin. A recommendation you could make is to have him/her review their course objectives and decide where technology could be substituted to achieve the same goals.
True because the teacher should always consider the learning objectives first and then start small with a lesson he/she is comfortable with.
True/False: It is necessary for teachers to plan lessons that return to prior material taught and learned in class?
True because when students are confronted with the same material day after day they will eventually internalize it and master it gradually.
What criteria would you use to determine if you need to adjust the pace of your lesson?
Using questions to check for understanding and adjusting pace to help students catch up or move on. Reviewing assessments after a lesson and re-teaching misunderstood concepts.
Mr. Rodriguez has been working with ESL students on writing complete sentences with a subject and verb. After reading students first three sentences, Mr. Rodriguez realizes that about sixty percent of the students have mastered this objective but about 8 students are still struggling. He asks students to work in pairs to come up with a short story using complete sentences. He then pulls the 8 struggling students into a small group, and works with them using specific feedback. He says things like "I see that you have a noun which is your subject, but what action is your subject doing?" He then works individually with them until they are ready to move forward. This is an example of:
Using student feedback to adjust instruction.
The following short description could best be used to teach students what strategy? It was a dark and stormy night. All the children were curled up in their beds. The rain was falling hard on the big old house and the wind was whistling loudly. Suddenly the front door flew open and all the children sat up in bed scared and trembling.
Visualization
Based on what you've learned about teaching K - 3 elementary students the alphabetic principle, choose the list of words below that is in the most effective order. In other words, which word would you teach first, second, third, and last based on the alphabetic principle?
cat, doghouse, ugly, should
Differentiation of the curriculum falls into what three main categories?
content, process, product
Identify the four factors you should consider when planning differentiated lessons?
student readiness to learn, student background, student learning style, student interest.
