OPTE 6-12
Describe a visual spatial learner
uses clustering as a brainstorming tool, highlights with color, uses visual memory techniques
Hey student incorrectly answers three of six items on a daily math quiz. Which of the following examples of teacher feedback would best promote student improvement on the next quiz covering similar material?
"I see the problem. You multiplied rather than dividing at the step right here. I think we need to review the steps for solving this type of equation"
Which of the following scenarios is the best example of a high school teacher in a leadership role at the local level? A) A history teacher creates "This Day in History" Podcast for student spotlighting important historical events and Individuals of the date. B) Mathematics teacher share his information with the school board on how high stakes assessments impact teaching practices and student learning C) A journalism teacher regularly response to online blogs that discuss trends in media coverage of important news events D) A Fine arts teacher attends a district meeting or fine arts teachers when the colleagues who was slated to go to the meeting is unable to attend
A mathematics teacher shares information with the scoreboard on how high stakes assessments impact teaching practices in student learning.
Which of the following situations most clearly illustrates how a student's development in one domain (cognitive, linguistic, physical, social, emotional) can affect development and/or performance in another domain? A) A student with severe physical disabilities exhibit strong verbal and conceptual skills in her academic work B) A student who is a talented athlete is also one of the highest achievers and her school and science and math C) A student with low self-esteem refuses to attempt new or challenging learning task before he is sure he will fail. D) A student who is bilingual shows similar skills and confidence in both languages in which he is proficient.
A student with low self esteem refuses to attempt new or challenging learning tasks because he is sure he will fail.
In which of the following situations is the teacher's strategy most likely to promote students' ability to regulate their own learning? A) A teacher shows students how to maintain a log of each book they read for recreation during a grading period. B) A teacher helps Each student identified weekly goals that target the student specific academic needs. C) A teacher uses the results of regularly administering interest inventories to select reading materials for classroom activities D) A teacher offers after school review sessions before test, but allows students to decide for themselves whether to participate
A teacher helps each student identify weekly goals that target the student specific academic needs.
According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which ability do adolescents develop that they did not have in earlier stages?
Abstraction and hypothesis testing
English language learners at the middle school and high school levels are likely to be more successful in their learning when they receive explicit instruction and support in which of the following areas?
Academic language development
When children construct meaning, they may address new information that does not fit into their existing concepts or schemes by either forming a new scheme or changing an existing one. What is this process called?
Accommodation
The teacher can best promote students interested motivation to master content and skills by using evaluation practices that:
Acknowledge each students improvement and progress in learning
What is the first way in which teachers can apply processes of acquiring and integrating new knowledge to help ELL students access meaningful learning?
Activate prior knowledge
A teacher wishes to adopt a proactive classroom management approach to help prevent minor incidents of miss behavior and disruptions to students learning. The teacher converse achieve this goal by:
Actively monitoring students work and activities in addressing potential behavior issues early
Which of these takes place first in the process of producing national or state standardized achievement tests?
Administering the tests to student samples
When should teachers write lesson plans for effective organization and implementation?
After a plan of study, units, timelines, and lesson plan calendar
If a high school student is interested in a subject but the school does not offer any classes in it, what is true about other ways the student can acquire skills in this subject?
An internship or apprenticeship will provide instruction, modeling, and hands-on learning by doing.
Which one of the following statements about objectives is NOT true?
An objective describes how to get to the outcome.
An experienced high school teacher is examining recent research describing evidence based writing instruction for long-term English language learners. The teacher can best use this research studies to improve personal professional practice by taking which of the following actions first? A) Gathering information on the credentials of the individuals who conducted the research studies B) Comparing the characteristics of the participants in the research studies with the characteristics of the students in the teachers classes. C) Analyzing the extent to which the teachers current practices reflect the research findings
Analyzing the extent to which the teachers current practices reflect the research findings
A student is facing a five day suspension for violating a school rule. In this situation, the student has a right to which the following protections? A) And opportunity to refute the charges before and objective decision maker B) Access to an official advocate, such as a teacher or school counselor. C) Make up sessions with qualified staff to compensate for Missed work
And opportunity to refute the charges before an objective decision maker
Which of these is true about effective nonverbal communication by teachers?
Appropriate movements expressing energy and enthusiasm work.
Which of the following reflects a general principle for teachers to apply in responding to student diversity in their classrooms?
Ask students more open-ended questions.
How do experts advocate that teachers communicate with their students' parents?
Asking each student's parents which forms of communication work best for them
What is one valid guideline for teachers to avoid problems with classroom diversity?
Avoid using idioms; translate or explain any they do use.
To recruit parents as allies to reinforce school expectations at home, teachers should establish and communicate high standards and expectations at the beginning of the school year. Why?
Because research finds parental expectations strongly predict student achievement
Which of the following assessment strategies is the most appropriate and effective method for monitoring students progress towards achieving grade level content standards
Benchmark test
In Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, which stage(s) and nuclear conflict(s) is/are typically encountered during the teenage years?
Both (Identity vs. Role Confusion & Intimacy vs. Isolation)
Which of these do standardized ability tests and standardized aptitude tests both do?
Both measure potential, not execution.
Throughout the school year, students and an eighth grade science class conduct Internet research on a wide range of topics. The teacher wants to facilitate students ability to determine the credibility of the information they fine. What's the following strategies with the best support students in this area
Bring students develop a checklist of criteria to use when evaluating online information sources
Students in my science class are Studying rain forests. The class is briefly discuss some of the issues related to the shrinking of rainforest around the world, and the teacher would like to help students gain a deeper understanding of these issues. One strategy the teacher plans to use is to have students read and respond to recent magazine articles on these issues. And selecting articles for this activity, the teachers primary goal should be to select articles that:
Can we read and understood by students with different knowledge and skill levels
Of the following, which do Cloze procedures involve on the part of the student?
Changing incomplete sentences to complete sentences
What is the preoperational stage?
Children are developing language skills. Use symbols to represent objects. They will be able to follow directions, but they will not be able to reverse them, They have difficulty dealing with more than one problem at a time and they have difficulty seeing things from another person's point of view (aka Egocentrism).
For classroom teachers, awareness of issues in the family situations of their students is important. Which of the following is nottrue about children ofdivorce?
Children from non-divorced parents have no fewer problems than children from divorced parents.
Which term refers to the process of training a reflexive response to occur upon receiving an originally unrelated stimulus?
Classical Conditioning
Which of these teaching/learning strategies associated with indirect instruction most promotes student visualization, organization, and application of ideas they have learned?
Concept mapping
A middle school teacher gives students a quiz halfway through a mathematics unit. Many of the students perform poorly on the quiz. Which of the following should the teacher took first in addressing this situation
Conducting an error analysis to determine how best to adjust instruction
Relative to assessment, what is a definition of statistical reliability?
Consistency in a test's results across repeated administrations
Which of the following defines discriminant validity in assessment?
Constructs expected to be unrelated are tested and are found unrelated.
What kind of validity indicates how representative a test is of every part or detail of a construct?
Content Validity
Which of the following learning processes produces the result of reconstructing or repositioning a belief system or value system?
Creating cognitive dissonance with an existing position
A student with multiple disabilities will be in rolled at a middle school. In regard to educating this student, school staff should be aware of their legal responsibility to: A) Deliver instruction and services to the student and the least restrictive environment appropriate for meeting his or her needs B) Incorporate into the student school day ongoing opportunities to interact with similarly disabled peers or adults C) Revise the students individual education program each grading. In response to his or her classroom performance
Deliver instruction and services to the student and the least restrictive environment appropriate for meeting his or her needs
Teachers in a high school science department want to improve their teaching practices To better promote students learning. They have arranged to observe instruction in each others classrooms on a regular basis and discuss their observations afterward. The teachers converse help ensure the effectiveness of this process by: A) Keeping the high school principal informed about their progress B) Choosing a mediator to assist in resolving differences of opinion C) Demonstrating receptiveness to constructive feedback D) Working toward developing similar teaching styles.
Demonstrating receptiveness to constructive feedback
Which of the following approaches represents the most effective way to differentiate instruction for a class of ninth grade students to perform at a wide range of skill levels? A) Revising academic standards to accommodate students individual skills levels B) Acquiring the Text books used at lower or higher grade levels as appropriate for students needs C) Implementing small group activities in which each group include students at various skill levels D) Designing tiered assignments for students that address the essential concepts being taught
Designing tiered assignments for students that address there is central concepts being taught
The seventh grade teachers and school are planning their first cross curricular unit. The teachers have reviewed relevant content standards and identified enter dependence as the unifying theme for the unit. Which of the following would be the most appropriate and effective step for the teachers to take next and planning process?
Developing a planning web on which to note connections among specific ideas and each content area and the theme of the unit
What's the following steps would be most helpful and appropriate for a teacher to take first and planning differentiated Instruction to help the students in a class achieve a particular learning goal?
Diagnosing the students first levels of readiness and need in relation to the defined learning goal
A high school history teacher wants to provide students with a body of factual knowledge to support their learning in an upcoming unit on the Korean conflict in the 1950s. Which of the following instructional approaches as likely to be most effective for this purpose? A) Guided Discovery B) Cooperative learning C) Direct instruction D) Inquiry learning
Direct instruction
Students in a high school class or riding cause and effect essays. The teacher reviews students for stress and provides feedback on areas of strength and aspects of their essays that need improvement. Which of the following steps should the teacher take next to promote students ability to write affective cause and effect essays
Discussing with students specific strategies for addressing areas of needs in their cause and effect essays
A 10th grade student with cerebral palsy uses a customers wheelchair to help normalize his posture and facilitate movement. the teacher wants to ensure that the Student is appropriately position to participate in different types of class activities. Which of the following actions would be most successful for the teacher to take first in this effort
Discussing with the students physical and occupational therapist how to position him for planned activities
Teachers who have had a goal of providing equitable instruction to diverse groups of students should begin by considering which of the following questions? A) Do I allow differences in culture, language, and behavior to shake my perceptions about student motivation and ability to learn? B) How frequently do I interact with individual students to make sure that I am meeting their learning needs C) And my consistent and providing an equal amount of time to each student regardless of culture language and behavior?
Do I allow differences in culture, language, and behavior to shake my perceptions about student motivation and ability to learn
One factor necessary to enable ELL students to succeed in middle and high school is effective instruction by their teachers. What is accurate about additional required factors?
Educators need shared knowledge bases of effective teaching methods for ELLs.
Several high school teachers across the state will be collaborating on the development of a program for school districts that will bring enrichment opportunities to underserved population of students. The majority of the teachers collaboration will take place online. Making which of the following activities the most important priority will best promote the success of the teachers virtual collaboration? A) Establishing procedures for quality assurance of the final product B) Taking turns planning and leading discussions C) Engaging in consistent and plentiful communication
Engaging and consistent and plentiful communication
Which of the following describes a student who is a tactile-kinesthetic learner?
Enjoys building models
A seventh grade student has been having difficulty keeping up with assignments finishing and turning in homework and studying for tests. The seventh grade teachers have met with the students parents who agree that their child will benefit from extra help in several areas. Together, the teachers and the parents identify supports for the student that will be implemented At home and at school. Which of the following additional steps so the teachers take to facilitate the parents involvement in addressing their child's challenges? A) Asking the parents to take responsibility for explaining to their child supports that will be implemented B) Recommending that the parents investigate private tutoring for their child should the supports prove unsuccessful C) Suggesting that the parents visit the classroom to observe their child during various instructional periods D) Establishing a dialogue journal to communicate with the parents about their child's progress and any issues that arise.
Establishing a dialogue journal to communicate with the parents about their child's progress and any issues that arise
Students in an eighth-grade English language arts class recently completed a literature unit focusing on identifying literary themes. The results of the end-of-unit assessment indicate that, although most students passed the assessment, the class as a whole appears to have a tenuous grasp of the concept. The most appropriate step for the teacher to take in response to this situation is to:
Examine instructional plan is to identify areas where adjustments can be made to provide students additional reinforcement and guided practice with extra concepts
A high school teachers US history class is beginning a series of lessons on the Montgomery bus boycott in the 1950s, And preliminary discussions of the topic, the teacher learns that most students believe that Rosa Parks was the first and only person to have been arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man and that she alone was responsible for the boycott. The teacher compress to spell this misconception by Engaging students in which of the following activities during the upcoming lessons?
Examining primary documents and multiple secondary sources to explore the complexities of issues and events surrounding the boycott
In acquiring and integrating new knowledge, what is a key difference of younger children as opposed to high school students?
Fewer Schemata, Fewer Assimilations, and fewer accommodations
Which of the following social behaviors typically appears in early adolescense? A) During friendship as a mutual relationship based on trust B) Organizing peer groups based on proximity and similarity and gender and ethnicity C) Demonstrating awareness of gender stereotypes and personality traits D) Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds, attitudes, and values
Forming small groups of peers with similar family backgrounds, attitudes, and values.
What is an accurate finding about how gender and race differences can influence teacher and student communication?
Gender and race can influence teacher perceptions of behaviors by different students.
At the beginning of the school year and eighth grade language arts teacher asked students to identify areas of strengths and areas in need of improvement in their writing. This process is likely to be Particularly useful in helping students perform which of the following task?
Generating personal writing goals and action plans
According to Freud's theory of psychosexual development, which stage is typical of adolescence?
Genital
1. What is an effective interaction technique related to individual student age differences for teachers to accomplish communication goals?
Give students concepts and vocabulary slightly above their current levels at all ages.
Hey six grade teacher has a goal of helping students not only learn the meanings of new social studies vocabulary but also understand the new vocabulary at the conceptual level. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this outcome?
Guiding students and constructing concept webs for new topics
Which of these most accurately reflects expert recommendations of effective strategies for resolving classroom conflicts?
Have students track conflicts over time and discuss reactions.
Which of the following student assignments is likely to be most effective in helping a middle school teacher learn about the values and believes of students diverse cultures?
Having students interview an adult family member about his or her life as a child and stories he or she remembers from
Students and a seventh grade social studies class want to interview local candidates for an upcoming election for the school newspaper but they have no experience conducting interviews. The teacher can best support students efforts with this activity by:
Helping students develop specific questions and role play the interview process
A six grade teacher plans to have students write a book report throughout the year. The teacher would like to have the students use self assessment as part of the process of evaluating their book reports. Which of the following teacher actions were the best support students and using effective self assessment skills for their book reports
Helping students identify specific criteria for evaluating a book report and apply those criteria in their self assessments
A six grade teacher is planning a lesson to introduce a new science concert to a class that includes English language learners with varying levels of English language proficiency. The teacher can best help ensure that the lesson will be responsive to the needs of the English language learners by including which of the following steps in the planning process?
Identifying ways for students to use for his hands on materials and activities to reinforce and implied the target concept
Among the following stages designated by Erikson in his theory of psychosocial development, which are most associated with the life stage of adolescence?
Identity vs. Role Confusion and Intimacy vs. Isolation
Students in a middle school classroom have a very learning preference. In this situation, the teacher can best promote learning for all students by emphasizing which of the following approaches
Implementing activities that address multiple learning modalities as a regular part of instruction
Which of the following practices is likely to be most effective in facilitating a teachers ability to provide effective instruction?
Implementing systematic and comprehensive assessment of student learning
Middle school teachers are planning an interdisciplinary unit about freshwater ecosystems. The teachers want to ensure that all students learning needs are addressed in this unit and not the students benefit fully from instruction. Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping the teachers achieve this goal?
Including the unit multiple formative assessment of student progress in learning
Mapping curriculum scope is a way for teachers to do which of the following?
Integrate state and district learning standards into curriculum
Which of the following describes a logical-mathematical learner?
Interested in a career as an engineer
Which type of reliability indicates whether an assessment gets reliable results across its individual items?
Internal consistency reliability
An educational researcher gives the same test to two groups of students, then delivers an instructional intervention to one group, and then gives both groups the same test again. The intervention/treatment group scores much higher this time; the control (non-treatment) group scores essentially the same as the first time. The researcher concludes that barring other factors, the intervention was what raised one group's scores. What type of validity does this illustrate?
Internal validity
To make a classroom emotionally safe, what can teachers include among rules for both their students and themselves to follow?
It is never okay for any of us to insult any others.
What is a characteristic of indirect instruction?
It is teacher facilitated rather than teacher directed.
According to research into achievement motivation, what is the role of student self-determination?
It strengthens student motivation for learning and performance.
Which statement is most accurate about the instructional approach of using scaffolding?
It ultimately moves learning responsibility from teacher to student.
what consists of a tactile-kinesthetic learning environment?
Large Gym Floors, Dance Warm Ups, and Role Playing
When designing a virtual learning environment for students teachers can best facilitate the learning process by adhering to which of the following guidelines?
Linking supplemental resources directly from content pages to streamline students access to information
In general, students with specific learning disabilities are more likely than their peers without disabilities to develop: A) speech problems such as stuttering B) conduct disorder C) unrealistic fears of certain objects or situations D) low self-esteem 8
Low self-esteem
Which of the following actions by a high school teacher is likely to contribute most to the creation of a supportive and caring classroom learning environment?
Making an effort to learn about and incorporate knowledge of each students interests and aspirations
Teachers in a middle school provide students with opportunities to participate in regular exploratory activities designed to introduce them to a variety of specialized subjects. These activities are likely to be most effective in helping students to address which challenges? A) Developing a sense of self efficacy as learners B) Forming an accurate perception of their abilities C) Making decisions about their future education and career's D) Becoming independent and goal oriented in their learning
Making decisions about their future education and careers.
When ELL students with limited English proficiency (LEP) also have learning disabilities (LDs), which of these statements is most accurate about their learning?
Many teachers cannot tell LEP apart from real LDs as factors in school failure.
One goal for a middle school is to establish partnerships with local businesses to enhance student learning. Several local businesses have agreed to participate in this initiative. The teachers would like to identify how each of the businesses can best become actively involved in the students learning. Which of the following steps should the teachers take first in this effort? A) Arranging for representatives from each of the businesses to visit the school and observe instruction in several classrooms. B) Requesting that each of the businesses submit to the school a list of resources and services they are prepared to offer. C) Meeting with representatives from each of the business is to examine the curriculum and discuss specific ways they may be able to support its implementation
Meeting with representatives from each of the businesses to examine the curriculum and discuss specific ways they may be able to support its implementation
Accordingto Piaget's cognitive theory, how are schemata best defined?
Mental constructs
Which of the following is an important guideline for a teacher to follow in meeting with parents/guardians from diverse cultural backgrounds?
Monitor nonverbal communication ( e.g. proximity, eye contact) To avoid inadvertently offending the parents/guardians
As six grade classroom is equipped with an audience response system in which students respond to questions by clicking on a personal remote control. Students responses are displayed immediately on a presentation computer. This type of Response system can be use most effectively for which of the following purposes?
Monitoring students understanding of key concepts
Middle school teachers are developing new instructional units to ensure alignment with state standards. In determining an appropriate length of instructional time to a lot for a new unit, the teachers should first consider:
Nature and complexity of the content they will teach during the unit
What is the correct behaviorist term for strengthening a behavior by taking away something?
Negative reinforcement
As part of a long-term project, students in a high school science class will be participating in online discussion groups related to their projects. The teacher wants to help students use appropriate communication strategies in their discussions. The teacher can best achieve this goal by emphasizing which of the following guidelines A) Online discussions like nonverbal clues that convey meaning and face-to-face conversations, so you set a tire or sarcasm with caution. B) Reduce potential conflict by focusing primarily on positive comments in online discussions C) To avoid grammar and spelling errors, compose an edit Messages off-line before adding them to online discussions.
Online discussions lack nonverbal cues that convey meaning and face-to-face conversation so use satire or sarcasm with caution
Which type of behaviorist conditioning changes voluntary behaviors through manipulating environmental variables?
Operant conditioning
Which of the following is a common way for library media specialists to help classroom teachers and students?
Providing access to information
Among the developmental stages Freud identified in his theory of psychosexual development, which ones occur during infancy and early childhood through elementary ages?
Oral, Anal, Phallic
In a high school, students overall scores on state assessments have to clean each year for the last three years. The department chairs persons have been asked by the principal to lead their teams and professional learning activities to help address this decline. As leader of this professional learning effort the department chairs person should ensure that their team members: A) Observe instruction and colleagues classrooms to establish a frame or reference for evaluating potential strategies for use in instruction B) Cite specific research in their lesson plans that support the use of new instructional approaches and student activities. C) Ask at least one colleague to review plan lessons that include new techniques or strategies before implementation. D) Participate actively and identifying goals for improve student outcomes and analyzing data related to the goals for improvement
Participate actively in identifying goals for improve student outcomes and analyzing data related to the goals for improvement
A middle school teacher develops a series of language art lessons he believes might be useful for other teachers in the district. The teacher wants to share the lessons and invite feedback about how other teachers implement the lessons in their classrooms. Which of the following approaches is likely to be most effective for accomplishing the teachers goal? A) Asking the principal to distribute the lessons to other schools B) Gathering email addresses of interested teachers at the next district meeting C) Posting the lessons and related materials on an interactive block
Posting lessons and related materials on an interactive blog
Jean Piaget described which of his cognitive developmental stages as including characteristics of egocentrism, intuitive thinking, centration, animism, and magical thinking?
Preoperational
When teaching children from non-English speaking families, it is correct to assume that:
Proficiency in one language can help in learning a second, so language skills will improve if children are encouraged to be bilingual.
A teacher often discuss his upcoming unit topics and planned lesson activities with the schools are in music teachers and considers ways to integrate fine arts and content area instruction. Which of the following is likely to be the most important positive outcome of this approach? A) Helping ensure consistency and the instructional approaches used across subject areas B) Enhancing the overall quality of the school work environment C) Minimizing the potential for redundancy and curriculum goals and objectives D) Promoting a climate a professional collaboration and mutual support
Promoting a climate a professional collaboration and mutual support
Students in a middle school science class are beginning a study of the human endocrine system. And the first lesson the teacher asked students to recall a situation in which they felt strong fear or panic. After a few students respond, the teacher asked them to think about how they Felt physically at that moment and soon after. Through discussion, the teacher leads students to responses such as rapid heartbeat mental alertness and fast breathing at this point the teacher introduces information about the bodies adrenal glands. the teachers approach To introducing new content best demonstrates an understanding of which of the following principles?
Promoting learning by connecting new content to students experiences
When students are working math problems independently, the teacher asked the students questions such as how did you decide which operation to use and what steps did you take to get to this solution? By taking this role different students independent work, the teachers most likely to achieve which of the following outcomes
Promoting students awareness and understanding of their own thinking processes
During the first week of school, a high school teacher provides students with a shortlist of basic classroom expectations. The teacher then poses the following questions to students: what do you need to be able to learn effectively? The teacher encourages students and a discussion of the question, charge the responses, and uses them to modify and add the teachers basic expectations. This process is likely to be most effective in helping the teacher achieve which of the following goals?
Promoting students consideration of various elements of a productive learning environment
Students in high school geography class are exploring population trends in the western hemisphere For the last 50 years. The teacher provides students with several graphic representations illustrating the same set of population data for students to have salmon and small groups this approach is likely to be most beneficial to students explorations a population trends of the teacher takes which of the following additional steps?
Prompting students to analyze the graphic representations in relation to one another to make inferences about the nature and causes of population trends
Which of the following is a correct way for classroom teachers to give understanding and support to a child whose family is in turmoil?
Provide classroom activities and materials, such as clay and paint, that might enable the child to work through feelings.
A ninth grade science teacher plans to use small Group discussions and activities as a regular part of instruction. The teacher can best promote students ability to work affectively and productively in small group by which of the following steps first
Providing students with Explicit instruction in group processes such as conflict resolution and consensus building
As six grade teacher is planning to engage students in a project about local government. The teacher has arranged for individuals holding various positions and local government to mentor students through email during the project. Although many students use email informally with their peers, this will be a new use of email for most students. This use of technology is likely to be particularly effective in achieving which of the following instructional goals?
Providing students with an authentic context in which to develop written communication skills
Which of the following approaches is likely to be most effective in facilitating middle school's students knowledge construction? A) Ensuring that students have access to information resources on a broad range of topics B) Quizzing students frequently a new concepts and vocabulary C) Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and meaningful contexts. D) Allowing students to establish their own goals and pace for learning
Providing students with opportunities to use new learning in authentic and meaningful context.
A mathematics teacher wants to enhance students ability to analyze statistics And decides to instruct students in the use of a web based statistics to that allows students to display data in various types of graphs. Which of the following outcomes is the most important benefit of this approach for students learning? A) Providing students with visual a numeric representations of data B) Improving the complexity of students interpretations of data C) Building student confidence in the accuracy of their interpretation of data
Providing students with visual and numeric representations of data
A ninth grade English teacher is beginning a unit on writing persuasive essays. The teacher wants to communicate high expectations for students performance during this unit. Which of the following initial strategies by the teacher is likely to be most effective for this purpose?
Reading aloud a well written persuasive essay to students and guarding students and examining the key elements of the essay
Which of the following represents effective curriculum design in terms of sequence?
Reading before writing
When a student must remember something (e.g., on a test), which cognitive memory process is the most challenging?
Recall
A teacher is planning a geography lesson to introduce students to the concept that the resources available in a region influence the size and distribution of the regions population. The teacher is likely to be most successful and promoting student understanding of the target concept by implementing a lesson that:
Relates the concept too familiar situations or two concepts the students have previously learned
A high school classroom includes students who exhibit significant variation in their physical development. It is important for the teacher to consider this range in development when planning learning experiences that:
Require a high degree of coordination
Which of the following vocabulary skills would be most of properly introduced at the high school level?
Researching word origins as an eight to understanding meaning, derivations, And spelling as well as influences on the English language
Based on research findings, how does role-playing contribute to effective conflict resolution in the classroom?
Role-playing teaches perspective-taking and empathy.
2. According to cognitive information processing theory, in which of these do people receive input from the environment?
Sensory Memory
Which of the following do experts advise for managing productive learning environments in the classroom?
Sequence tasks on a continuum from easiest to hardest.
When children play, they learn and develop concepts through interacting with the environment. What kinds of concepts do they learn through their senses?
Showing students how connected ideas relate to main themes
According to Kohlberg's theory of moral development, which stages can adolescents typically achieve that they typically did not during early and middle childhood?
Social Contract and Individual Rights, Universal Ethical Principle
tests89. Regarding parent-teacher conferences, what reflects teacher reports of effective strategies?
Some teachers let students lead conferences on report cards, portfolios.
Students in the six grade science class will be creating multimedia presentation on self-selected topics. The students are encouraged to include text, graphics, photographs, and video clips and their presentation. In this situation, it would be most important for the science Teacher to emphasize which of the following guidelines for this Presentation? A) Copyrighted material used in the presentation must be preapproved by the teacher. B) Each visual element in the presentation should include a title or caption as appropriate. C) Sources of information in any format must be appropriately credited in the presentation. D) The creative use of visual elements will enhance the effectiveness of the presentation
Sources of information in any format must be appropriately credited in this presentation
Which of these do standardized ability tests measure in students?
Student competence
Which of these represents a caveat concerning independent instruction?
Students must first have developed skills needed to work independently.
What's the following characteristics must be present in an authentic assessment?
Students must use now is to perform a task that is grounded in real world contexts
Some students find their successes due to their talent and/or hard work and their failures due to their lack of ability and/or not studying; others find their successes due to good luck or help from others and their failures due to bad luck or interference from others. What is motivation theory's term for this?
Students receive visual illustrations of what they learn.
How can teachers interact with diverse students to clarify class goals and purposes for attaining communication goals?
Support student comprehension by providing analogies and metaphors.
A middle school teacher is beginning a teaching assignment in a new school with a diverse student population. The teacher knows very little about some of the students cultural backgrounds. Which of the following initial actions is likely to be most effective and enhancing the teachers understanding of students cultures? A) Developing a survey about cultural values and traditions to send students family during the first week of school B) Enrolling in a professional development workshop on culturally responsive instruction and learning environments C) Talking with teachers who have experience with the various cultural groups represented in the school
Talking with teachers who have experience with the various cultural groups represented at the school
What is true about teacher participation in school/district committees and activities?
Teacher support often determines extracurricular activities.
What accurately reflects effective teacher verbal communication strategies with all students?
Teachers get attention, show transitions, and enable processing via strategic pauses.
According to teachers and administrators, which is accurate about strategies for parent-teacher conferences they recommend?
Thanking parents for attending conferences is important.
Of the following, which is often the resolution to parent/teacher cultural conflicts?
The conflict is not resolved and parents/teacher continue their own practices.
Activity planning and lesson planning are the same in which of the following:
The plans can be designed for a whole unit.
Relative to adolescent cognitive development, what is true of structural changes in the brain?
The prefrontal cortex, which controls emotion, does not mature until the age of 18-25 years.
I knew high school math teacher is formulating lesson objectives for an upcoming instructional unit. Which of the following should be the teachers primary guide in this process
The relevant mathematics standards prescribed by the state for students in the appropriate grade level
Which of the following is a right of teachers under the First Amendment?
The right to academic freedom of expression
Which of the following accurately describes rubrics as assessment tools?
They typically define and describe general ranges or levels of performance.
Of the following, which most correctly represents informal assessments?
These are often performance based.
Which statement is most accurate in describing formal assessments?
They are frequently standardized tests.
What is correct in describing standardized achievement tests?
They are summative evaluations, usually given at the end of the school year.
What do research findings show about ELL/LEP student communication in classrooms?
They do not know the material, they know the answers but lack the English, or they know the content and English but feel discomfort.
What do standardized achievement test results enable educators to do?
They enable educators to compare an individual student's progress over the years.
How do teachers help students by making classrooms intellectually safe?
They enable every student to participate.
58. The IDEA guarantees due process rights to parents for which of the following?
To advance notice and refusal of all these special education stages
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), what rights do students and their parents have?
To reviews, correction requests, formal hearings, and contesting statements
FERPA regulations allow student records disclosure without consent under which conditions?
To schools where students transfer so records are needed
Which psychosocial stages did Erik Erikson say in his developmental theory are allexperienced by children from birth through the elementary school years?
Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority
A teacher is planning a presentation to introduce a complex concepts to the students in a 10th grade class. The teacher is aware that some students in the class find it easy to grasp conceptual content that involves using abstract thinking, while others have much more difficulty. The teacher can best help ensure all students success in learning the target concert by:
Using examples, analogies, And visual Representations during the presentation to clarify and reinforce the concepts
To address diversity among students within classrooms, which of these is a recommended teacher practice?
Varying instructional methods for different student learning styles
Research finds which of these is true regarding classroom conflicts?
Violent actions share retribution goals.
Among speech/language disorders, which category most often includes remediation via surgical procedures?
Voice Disorders
A team of eighth grade teachers are designing a multidisciplinary, project-based Learning assignment that will focus on the issue of poverty. Which of the following questions for the project is likely To be most effective and prompting students to analyze the complexities of this issue?
What actions can be taken at the local state and national levels to address global poverty?
What defines validity in terms of assessment?
Whether a test measures what it is meant to measure
Interactive learning activities can overlap with which other instructional methods?
With any, for certain activities
A teacher can best ensure the effectiveness of a teaching portfolio as a tool for professional development by which of the following strategies? A) Terrifying on a regular basis that there is appropriate Variety in the item selected as evidence of the teachers knowledge and skills B) Having a colleague review the items selected periodically to check the thoroughness and coherence C) Writing a brief rationale for each item selected describing how the item reflects the teachers knowledge skills and growth
Writing a brief rationale for each item selected describing how the item reflects the teachers knowledge skills and growth
Which of the following is an advantage of Instructional Objectives?
Writing objectives forces the teacher to think about what students should be working on.
Of the following terms, which one means thinking and learning about one's own thought and learning processes?
metacognition
In curriculum design, what is/are included in the definition of scope?
defined as how much subject content the teacher covers in instruction, by both breadth and depth
What is the sensorimotor stage?
in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
Which of the following does puberty involve?
physical maturation, hormonal changes, and sexual maturation
Which of the following is an example of experiential learning?
testing a hypothesis, taking notes
And which of the following questioning situations would it be most appropriate for a teacher to wait less than three seconds for a student response? A) The teachers emphasis is on enhancing students ability to think critically B) Students have extensive background knowledge about a discussion topic C) The teachers emphasis is on building students automatic recall of factual information D) Students are generally at similar levels of cognitive development
the teacher's emphasis is on building students' automatic recall of factual information
