Mr. Jimenez, a high school math teacher recognizes that one of his students seems to be left out a lot when students are choosing partners or groups and picked on frequently for being different. Why is this situation particularly harmful in a high school setting?
The influence of peers is stronges...
PPR EXAM PRACTICE
Mr. Jimenez, a high school math teacher recognizes that one of his students
seems to be left out a lot when students are choosing partners or groups and
picked on frequently for being different. Why is this situation particularly harmful
in a high school setting?
The influence of peers is strongest in adolescence.
Providing students with various tools based on their level of understanding of a
topic is an example of which instructional strategy?
Scaffolding
Allowing prekindergarten students free choice in their learning centers helps
develop their decision-making skills. Which of the following will also help them
develop decision-making skills?
Including a variety of appropriate materials.
Mrs. Toups, a 5th grade teacher in an advanced math classroom is using an
online stock market simulation to teach her students about economics. Students
have $100,000 to invest in the stock simulation and they must track their
investments overtime. During the project, her students will work independently to
address the economics and technology objectives. Many of her students are
unfamiliar with the stock market, so this is a challenge that her project faces.
To prepare, Mrs. Toups creates the following lesson sequence for the project:
Days 1-3: provide project details and background information about the stock
market and the online simulation.
Days 4-5: Facilitate the selection of stocks through internet research.
Days 6-18: Support students as they track their investments using a spreadsheet.
Days 19-20: Present an evaluation of the success of the students' investment
strategies, using graphs created in a spreadsheet program.
Based on the sequence of the lesson, when would it be most beneficial to
students to provide them instruction on a decision-making strategy?
Days 4-5
After a long research project, a teacher has her students fill out a post project
report that looks like the following:
Post Project Report:
Write and submit by the end of the Day 16 a one-page report that answers the
following questions:
What part of this project was most challenging?
What was the most interesting part of the project?
What do you wish you had done differently?
Which of the following skills are the students developing as the complete the
post project report?
Reflection
Mr. Givens has assigned a research project to the students in his senior
government class regarding voting and how the popular vote is different than the
, electoral vote. Following the research portion of the assignment, he requires
students to hold a mock election for the neighboring elementary school.
The primary purpose of the mock election is for the high school students to
develop which of the following skills?
Application
Mrs. Valle frequently uses independent work stations in her first-grade
classroom. The primary purpose of the workstations is to create an environment
in which her students can choose which projects they want to work on, complete
and share with the class. Even though Mrs. Valle has carefully planned what the
students will do at each station, many students seem unsure of what to do. What
should Mrs. Valle do to help her students understand how to work independently
at the workstations?
Have student volunteers role-play how to work in the stations.
Mrs. McDowell notices some abrupt changes in one of her 4th grade students,
Lainey. Though Lainey has never had behavior issues, she is now consistently
disrupting class, and making significantly lower grades than she used to. Mrs.
McDowell has also noticed that Lainey has been hanging around a different group
of students, many of whom have a history of behavior issues like the ones Lainey
is now exhibiting. What is the best initial response for Mrs. McDowell?
Discuss her concerns with Lainey in a firm but caring manner, while gathering
information so she can better assist her.
Ms. Davis is teaching her class a lesson in the science lab. Before she lets them
begin their group work, she goes over the proper procedures for gathering
necessary lab supplies and returning them to the proper place after use. The
primary reason she explains these procedures is to
Promote students' organizational skills.
Mrs. Peterson has a classroom made up of general education students, students
with disabilities, and English Learners. Which teaching strategy would best
benefit the English Learners?
Using visuals in combination with oral directions.
Zoe is a 4th-grade student who really enjoys collecting, caring for animals, and
classifying items. What type of intelligence is Zoe expressing?
Naturalistic
Mr. Jones creates a menu of assignments for students to select from to
determine how well they have learned the material from the previous unit on
Texas History. The primary value of this approach is that it allows the teacher to
address the various learning styles in the classroom.
Yeung Ma is an English learner who demonstrates little or no ability to use
English in writing. Yeung Ma uses occasional high-frequency words in her writing
although they do not create meaning. Which of the following best identifies
Yeung's level of English language proficiency in writing?
Beginning
What characteristics are you most likely to see in students at the intermediate
level of English-language proficiency?
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