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FTCE Professional Education PracticeTest 2
Which of the following would require inductive thinking?
(A) Students are presented with the question, "How does competition for resources
affect population growth in an ecosystem?" then are asked to research the topic to find
possible answers.
(B) Students are taught about similarities in plant and animal cells, and must make a
Venn diagram to show what they learned.
(C) Students hear a story and must paraphrase it.
(D) The teacher gives a short lecture on the causes of the American Revolution and
then has the students develop a graphic organizer to show cause and effect. -
answer(A) Inductive thinking starts with a question, then students must find the answer
through experimentation or research. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes was
famous for his inductive reasoning.
A student is doing a cold read, and the teacher documents that the student is reading at
a 75 percent accuracy level. After reading the selection, the student takes a multiple-
choice quiz on the material and scores 60 percent correct. What does this mean?
(A) The student is reading at a frustration level and the teacher needs to select a more
level-appropriate text.
(B) The student is reading at an instructional level and needs some support to
comprehend the text.
(C) The student is distracted and needs to reread the text several times before taking
the assessment.
(D) The student is bored with the text and needs more challenging material. - answer(A)
Since the student cannot successfully read 90 percent of the words in a given text and
is showing a low comprehension level, it verifies that the student in the scenario is
reading well below instructional level.
Who elects parents to the school advisory council?
(A) School board members
(B) School instructional staff
(C) Other parents
(D) The principal and vice-principal - answer(C) Parents are elected to the school
advisory council by other parents.
According to the Code of Ethics of the Education Profession in Florida, what is a
professional educator's primary concern?
(A) The educator's primary concern will be to be a lifelong learner, pursuing excellence
in the profession.
(B) The educator's primary concern will be the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence,
and acquisition of knowledge.
,(C) The educator's primary concern is to maintain the respect and confidence of
colleagues, students, parents, and other members of the community.
(D) The educator's primary concern will always be for the student and for the
development of the student's potential. - answer(D) The educator's primary concerns
will always be for the student and for the development of the student's potential.
If a high-school science teacher wants to ensure that guessing has a minimal effect on
the students' grades, what type of test question should be avoided?
(A) Multiple choice
(B) Cloze assessments
(C) True/false questions
(D) Essay questions - answer(C) Standard true/false questions give students a 50
percent chance of guessing correctly. This can be remedied by using modified true/false
questions that require students to rewrite false statements to make them true.
A classroom teacher is frustrated when an English language learner refuses to make
eye contact when speaking to adults. What is the teacher failing to take into account?
(A) Respect is earned, not demanded.
(B) Making eye contact with adults is considered disrespectful in some cultures.
(C) The student is likely distracted with something else in the room.(D) None of the
above - answer(B) In many cultures, making eye contact with a superior adult is a sign
of disrespect. Teachers should be aware of the cultural backgrounds of their students
and not expect students to behave in a way that is unacceptable in their native culture.
A history teacher begins the unit on the Civil War by asking his students to brainstorm a
detailed list of what they think motivated the southern states to secede. Why would the
teacher start the lesson this way?
(A) To conduct a formative assessment.
(B) To conduct a summative assessment.
(C) To activate and assess prior knowledge in his students.
(D) To see if the students are capable of higher-order thinking skills. - answer(C)
Activating prior knowledge is an important key to having coherence between lessons.
Graphic organizers such as KWL charts give students an opportunity to record what
they already know (K), what they want to know (W), and eventually what they learned
(L).
At the end of a lesson, an elementary math teacher has students complete an exit ticket
that includes one thing that they learned and one thing that still confuses them. The exit
ticket is used?
(A) as a classroom management technique.
(B) to assess students' ability to follow directions.
(C) as a tool to document learning gains.
(D) to gather data that can be used to assess the effectiveness of instruction. -
answer(D) Exit tickets are an effective tool for assessing what students learned during a
lesson and what parts of the new material still needs to be addressed.
, A student is having difficulty sounding out words then immediately comprehending the
meaning of the words. The teacher develops a variety of letter-sound recognition
activities to help the student improve their reading skills. On what skill is the teacher
focusing?
(A) Encoding
(B) Decoding
(C) Semantics
(D) Flu - answer(B) When a student decodes words, he or she must sound the words,
then immediately comprehend the meaning. Letter-sound recognition activities help
students learn to decode words.
A middle-school math teacher has been documenting student performance on
progressive skills tests throughout the semester. Currently none of the students are on
an individualized education program. After analyzing the following data table, what
should be the teacher's first step?
(A) The teacher should recommend that student D be moved to a higher-level math
class since that student's scores are so much higher than the mean scores of the class.
(B) Student C is not showing significant progress and needs instructional support.
(C) Student B is not responding to classroom instruction and needs to begin an
intervention program in the classroom.
(D) The teacher needs to contact student B's parents to develop an individualized
education program (IEP) for the student. - answer(C) Student B has shown little
improvement (22 percent, 38 percent, 24 percent, and 28 percent) as a result of regular
classroom instruction. After reviewing the data, the teacher should implement an
intervention program, beginning with small-group instruction and increased teacher
support. If after that the student still showed no progress, the teacher should also
include one-on-one intervention outside of the whole-class instruction. Only after the
teacher provided a systematic, documented intervention over a significant period of time
(9-18 weeks) would the need for an individualized education program (IEP) be
addressed.
Why would a classroom teacher use fishbone diagrams?
(A) To show a timeline of events
(B) To demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships
(C) To give a student the opportunity to develop a concept
(D) To show what a student knows prior to beginning a lesson - answer(B) Fishbone
diagrams are used to show cause-and-effect relationships in a text.
A teacher wants to make sure that her students understand and remember the
classroom rules. The best way to accomplish this is to?
(A) hang them on a poster in the back of the room.
(B) print them out and have students sign that they will follow them.(C) present them to
the class, clearly post them, then review them periodically.
(D) send a copy of them home so that parents can review them with the students. -
answer(C) Classroom rules are most effective when they are presented to the class,
clearly posted, then reviewed periodically.
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