ABCTE PTK Practice Exam
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What type of question would most likely generate the widest range of answers and
discussions among students? - -Why would the author have ended the book
this way? "Why" questions tend to be the most open-ended.
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Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first
few days of class? - -To establish clear expectations for performance and
behavior. Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset.
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What method will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in
cooperative learning groups? - -Assign each student in the group a specific role
in accomplishing the objectives of the activity. If each student has a role in meeting
the objectives and the activity is well structured, then all students will be drawn into
participating because they all have something to do.
When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount
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of information in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of MOST
use to the typical parent? - -Specific areas of academic strength and
weakness. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize
working to improve them.
Suppose your objective for a lesson is "The student will demonstrate an ability to
differentiate among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks." Which of the
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following is the BEST activity for introducing students to the attributes of each type of
rock? - -Students examine rocks belonging to each group and identify the
similarities and differences. The activity is followed by a group discussion in which
the teacher brings out the important characteristics of each type. Students learn best
when they are actively involved.
A group of students wants to produce an electronic magazine that publishes original
student writing and art. Their adviser is planning a unit to train them how to use a
word-processing application to create pages that include features such as images,
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multi-column layouts, sidebars, headers, footers, links, and page backgrounds. What
would be the BEST culminating activity for this portion of the training? - -Small
teams producing a document under proctored conditions, using specified features,
and within a time limit. The purpose of the raining is to prepare students to apply
what they learn. The team and time limit conditions make the performance more
realistic; the whole activity promotes retaining and transferring what has been
leaned.
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What is MOST likely to promote effective transfer of knowledge to students? -
-Having students work on their own with specific information related to a topic
before giving an organizing lecture. Studies indicate that topics need to be organized
, and connected in order to promote transfer knowledge, but that a large number of
topics covered quickly will hinder student transfer because students have too little
time to connect and organize the information.
Students are about to take a paper and pencil test. If there is time for only one
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activity, what would be the BEST to prepare the students for the test? -
-Students should make a chart of the important topics with notes on subtopics
below each. Organizational structures help students to connect and remember.
What learning objectives uses a higher order thinking skill? -✅✅ -Bloom's
Taxonomy identifies thinking skills in increasing order of sophistication as knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "Students will
create a metaphor to describe an emotion." requires synthesis in order to complete
the task.
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What would provide the BEST introduction for a lesson on writing bibliographic
references? - -Demonstrate to students the specific procedure and order
expected. Procedures are best taught through demonstration.
A social studies teacher wants students to consider the role of geography in
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population patterns. She asks her class, "What role did geography play in the growth
of Chicago as a major U.S. city?" what should she do next? - -Tell students not
to call out responses but to raise their hand when they think of an answer and wait to
be called on. Students need various amounts of time to think through an answer to a
question, particularly for complicated questions. Allowing students to answer right
away can stop the thinking process for the other students.
Consider the following two questions a teach might ask a high school social studies
class.
I: According to our textbook, what does the public welfare system do to solve the
problems of poverty?
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II: What are some ways our country might solve the problems of poverty?
What best describes the differences between these questions? - -This question
is a matter of relative convergence and divergence. Question I converges on the
textbook; that is good answers will stick to what the textbook says. Question II allows
for answers that may draw on sources other than the textbook. Both questions are
open-ended.
II invites more divergent thinking than I.
What activity would BEST help students in a middle school social studies class
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understand why different Native American tribes had different trading practices? -
-Assign a tribe to each group of students and give each group handouts that
identify needs and oversupply for a particular tribe. Then stage trading activities
among groups and have students identify important aspects. Students engaged in
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