FTCE Professional Education Practice Test

Teachers who conduct action research might:

1- Videotape their lessons to reflect on instructional strategies.

2- Analyze student performance and adjust teaching methods accordingly.

3- Collaborate with peers to enhance learning outcomes.

4- Identify areas for improvement in their practice.

5- Share findings with the educational community to foster professional growth.

A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text. The 4 basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are:

Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing.

What type of test could a school district use to determine if state standards were being effectively taught?

Criterion-referenced test

مِعيَار

used to measure student performance against specific educational standards.

Which of the following is the best example of a cognitive objective?

Students will complete a two-digit multiplication skills test with 85% mastery.

An educator signed up for a paid online professional development session that required watching short video segments and personally reflecting on their content. The educator let the videos run in the background, and quickly clicked through the acknowledgments without completing the reflections. What portion of the Code of Ethics does this violate?

The obligation to the profession.

duty

Learning activities should always be based on:

specific objectives.

An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their children. The most effective way to do this while fostering parent communication is to:

Invite parents to a "reading night" where student and parents meet to read and share favorite poems.

Which of the following statements from a teacher would be considered classroom management through use of negative reinforcement?

"If you would start turning in your homework, I wouldn't have to call your mother every afternoon!"

In order to practice effective behavior management, classroom rules

should be followed by all students and be consistently enforced.

Which of the following would be a responsibility of a school advisory council?

Developing a school improvement plan

Which of the following would be an example of negative reinforcement?

The teacher stops complaining about the messy floor after the students clean it up.

A teacher has discovered and implemented a new online behavior-management program that is improving student behavior while providing an easy way to communicate with parents. The teacher should

Meet with the principal to discussing sharing the new product at the next professional development day.

The best tool for a teacher to use to keep a running, averaged record of student scores throughout the year is

Spreadsheet

The most effective way to present vocabulary is

in context to convey rich meaning to the students.

The best graphic organizer for analyzing similarities and differences is

a Venn diagram

An ELL joins the classroom mid-year. She appears to speak fluent English and participates well in class, yet struggles academically in reading and science. When questioned, the teacher learns that the student has only lived in America for 2 years. The student's academic struggles are likely the result of

Not having mastered cognitive academic language proficiency due to the length of time she has been speaking English.

BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills) and CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) are two types of language proficiency identified by Jim Cummins, with BICS focusing on everyday social language and CALP on the language used in academic settings. BICS typically develops faster, within 1-3 years, while CALP can take 5-7 years or more. 

The input-hypothesis model developed by Steven Krashen would suggest that ELLs would benefit from

Being given information that is just slightly above their ability level in the second language.

The No Child Left Behind Act states that

Student whose first language is not English may only be tested in English.

Student test performance reflects

a student's understanding of the topic and the quality of instruction.

When teaching idioms it is important to

Explicitly teach the implied meaning of the phrase.

Example: It is raining cats and dogs.

A teacher wants to know if he is allowed to copy software onto more of his classroom computers. To find this out he should consult the

site license

A student comes to school and says that her report is done but she is out of ink on her home printer. She asks the teacher if she can email the assignment to school and have the teacher print it out. The teacher should

be cautious because emails can contain viruses.

Prior to teaching a unit on bacteria and viruses, a teacher has students evaluate a list of content-area statements as being true or false. After the lesson is complete, the students reevaluate the statements. What was the purpose of giving the assignment before the lesson if it was also to be complete afterwards?

The teacher using an anticipation chart to increase student interest and focus the instruction.

A culturally responsive teacher should be aware of students'

social skills, home culture, interests & attitudes.

A teacher gets a ticket for running a red light in a school zone. According to the Code of Ethics, the teacher should

Do nothing. This was a minor traffic violation.

A convergent question

has a simple, short answer and requires the use of lower-order thinking skills.

Shared classroom materials should be

easily accessed, assembled prior to beginning the lesson, and safe for student use.

Drill and practice is primarily used to

re-teach a skill that a student has failed to master.

A teacher is arrested for domestic violence, but does not report the incident because it was unfounded. The teacher

will be terminated as soon as the State of Florida learns of the offense.

A teacher notices that a student has lost her appetite and has difficulty walking or sitting. She also seems to be behaving in a sexually sophisticated manner. The teacher should

immediately contact the Florida Abuse Hotline (DCF).

Teachers that meet regularly to reflect on instructional methods are members of

a reflective learning community.

When planning a unit, a teacher must ensure that the lessons

activate prior knowledge and ensure coherence throughout the unit.

Who is responsible for implementing the school improvement plan?

The principal and staff

A teacher's professional development goals should be

relevant, measurable, and based on student needs.

Which of the following professional development classes would be most beneficial to a teacher wanting to focus on general instructional practices?

Action Research- How to Do It

What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic response from a student?

Constructed response

An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her students to categorize items like a scientist while appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence. Which plan would best meet her objective?

Plan an outdoor trip and have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based on their categories.

Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to

Meet with other educators to discuss and study more effective instructional practices.

A high-school English teacher reviewed data from a benchmark review and determined that the results showed that the students had not mastered a key concept. The teacher feels that she could improve her instructional practices and is looking for a scientifically-based approach to improve her teaching methods. How should she do this?

Attend a learning community meeting to discuss her instructional practices with other teachers with the same goal.

A first-grade teacher has students change the beginning letters of words to make new words (b-at, c-at, v-at), then has them switch the ending sounds on words (c-at, c-ar, c-ake). The teacher is having the students manipulate

onset-rimes

What would be the best way for a teacher to prepare her students for the state mandatory criterion-referenced test that is administered every year?

Make sure that the students have been taught the standards and are familiar with the test format.

A 6th grade history classroom is set up with desks facing each other in clusters of students mixed gender, ability, and cultures. Students are working on document-based questioning about Valley Forge. The teacher moves throughout the classroom, ready to offer guidance if necessary. What type of activity is the class performing?

A student-centered learning activity

The initial stages of language acquisition are:

pre-production, early production, speech emergent, intermediate fluency.

If a teacher does not want guessing to have a positive effect on test scores, she should avoid

true and false questions.

The purpose of asking a divergent question is to

promote critical thinking

In order to maintain good classroom management, a teacher should assist students in

self-monitoring their own behavior.

If a high school literature teacher wants to assess if her students understand sub-concepts that fall under a larger theme, she could have students create a

concept map.

Anecdotal records are

useful to compare student development over a period of time.

A student portfolio is an effective tool because it

provides a collection of student work over time.

If a teacher wants to be sure that her students are prepared for the state-administered standards test at the end of the year, she should

plan her instruction around state standards and benchmarks.

Well-formed teacher-made tests

are designed to assess student comprehension of specific skills based on state standards.

If a student repeatedly fails a mastery test, the teacher should

revisit prerequisite skills.

Which of the following activities would encourage students to use their critical thinking skills?

Problem-based learning activities

A beginning teacher is assigned a mentor that

promotes and supports peer teacher growth

A classroom teacher has a visually impaired student in his class. When preparing a class assessment, the teacher should

enlarge one copy of the test for the visually impaired student.

When testing for mastery,

students may retest on a skill until they demonstrate that they mastered it.

Teachers can bring rigor to their classrooms by incorporating

critical-thinking assignments

A high-school teacher responds to a student's solution by asking the class if they agree or disagree with the answer. The teacher is using

a redirect

Which is more effective for improving fluency, reading aloud or reading silently, and why?

Reading aloud, because students tend to skip words they do not understand when reading silently rather than making the effort to decode them.

The most appropriate time to give feedback on an assessment is

24 to 48 hours later.

What is the advantage of analyzing case studies?

-They present scenarios that teachers can study and apply to their own classrooms.
-They allow teachers to anticipate possible situations that may someday occur in their classrooms and prepare to respond accordingly.
-They provide teachers with the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to actual problems that have occurred in other classrooms.

-They allow teachers to anticipate possible situations that may someday occur in their classrooms and prepare to respond accordingly.

-They provide teachers with the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to actual problems that have occurred in other classrooms.

If a teacher asks a complex question and the student gives a brief response, the teacher can…

continue to ask follow-up questions of the same student to elicit a more thorough answer.

A 4th grade teacher notices that students bump into each other on the way to the pencil sharpener. Before changing the layout of the classroom, the teacher should

consider traffic flow patterns.

When would a teacher ask a follow-up question?

-When the original answer was too brief

-When the original answer contained a misconception.

-To encourage deeper thinking and understanding.

-When the original answer contained a misconception

-When the teacher is trying to elicit higher-order thinking skills from the student

A student in the pre-production stage of 2nd language acquisition will

participate in a "silent period" where the language is heard but not spoken.

Which of the following accommodations would be appropriate for any student to use, regardless of their learning abilities?

The use of highlighters to mark text.

When a teacher notices burns, bites, or bruises on a student and notices that the student withdraws at the approach of adults, the teacher should

contact the Florida Abuse Hotline

Which of the following is NOT an element of classroom instruction that can be differentiated by the teacher?

Standards

A classroom teacher has a student that needs extra practice with multiplication tables. The class has a single copy of a practice program, but the teacher doesn't want to risk losing it. What should the teacher do?

Never copy software since there are no situations where this is legal.

In addition to using audio or videotapes to conduct action research, teachers should also use

students' scores on assessments

A classroom teacher that understands how to differentiate instruction plans in advance should

provide tiered activities that allow students of all levels to understand the concepts but perform at different levels with necessary support.

Which of the following is true of how teachers should question students during a class discussion?

Below level-learners should be asked higher-order, critical-thinking questions that match their ability level.

In the middle of the year, a teacher has a gifted, physically-impaired student join her in the classroom. The student struggles to hold a pencil and writes very slowly. This student would benefit most from

a speech-to-text program

An 8th grade science teacher decides to work collaboratively with a teacher in the mathematics department to design a unit using basic algebra to calculate the density of various objects. By creating a cross-subject activity

student interest is increased as the science lesson gives relevance to the math.

According to the State of Florida, how long does a teacher have to self-report an arrest for possession of a controlled substance?

48 hours

A student has been given an alternative assessment to the end-of-the year criterion-based test that is required by the state. This an example of

a modification

A classroom teacher struggles with using base-ten blocks to teach multiplication and division of decimals. What would be the best resource for assistance?

A peer teacher

A student's individualized education program may require a modification if the students is

performing below grade level and classroom modifications are not sufficient.

When a teacher elects to participate in a professional development activity in technology, the primary focus should be on

how the design and delivery of instruction will impact student learning.

An ESOL teacher wants to find a way to make connections between English words and terms in Spanish that have the same meaning and similar pronunciation. The best way to achieve this would be to

build a word wall that includes cognates.

Enlarged text, use of speech-to-text programs, and talking word processors are all

accommodations for visually-impaired students.

When a teacher instructs students to put away their math textbooks and get out their science lab book she is managing the class learning environment through the use of

transition statements

A thematic unit

is a series of activities across the curriculum that focuses on one theme that addresses multiple standards in the same context.

A teacher asks a question, then pauses to call on a student even though many hands are waving in the air. The teacher is using

wait time.

Key Benefits of Wait Time:

• Enhanced Engagement:

  Wait time allows students to actively engage with the material and participate more fully in classroom discussions. 

• Improved Response Quality:

  Increased wait time allows for more thoughtful and well-supported responses from students. 

• Increased Student Confidence:

  Wait time can create a safer and more supportive environment where students feel comfortable taking risks and sharing their ideas. 

• Promotes Higher-Order Thinking:

  Wait time provides opportunities for students to engage in more complex and critical thinking processes. 

• Supports Diverse Learners:

  Wait time can be particularly beneficial for students who may need additional processing time due to various learning needs. 

• Encourages Peer Interaction:

  Wait time can foster a more interactive and collaborative learning environment where students can listen to and learn from each other. 

Which type of learning experience develops peer interaction skills?

Cooperative Learning

A local reporter asks a teacher her opinion on the new curriculum that has been implemented by the state. The teacher should

decline to comment

Which of the following gives the school districts the right and responsibility to establish programs for English language learners?

The No Child Left Behind Act

A classroom teacher needs to document a student's lack of focus in the classroom in order to develop accommodations to assist the student's academic achievement. The teacher should begin by

completing behavior inventory

The disadvantage of using drill and practice math programs on classroom computers is that

most classrooms do not have enough computers for the entire class.

A classroom teacher can foster higher-order thinking skills by asking students

-Follow-up and divergent questions

-To elaborate on a question that was already answered by classmates

-To elaborate on a question that was already answered by classmates

A teacher uses extinction when she is

ignores negative behavior so that students don't receive positive reinforcement by gaining the teacher's attention.

Which of the following describes a student-centered learning environment?

-Students work together on a jigsaw activity in cooperative learning groups.

-Students use a collaborative approach to research and develop a solution to a real-world problem.

-Students analyze multiple sources to develop their list of loaded words in persuasive articles as the teacher acts as a facilitator.

-Students use a collaborative approach to research and develop a solution to a real-world problem.

-Students analyze multiple sources to develop their list of loaded words in persuasive articles as the teacher acts as a facilitator.

Which of the following would not be used by a kindergarten teacher to develop phonemic awareness in her students?

Having students spell the words as they sound them out.

Should focus on Phonemic awareness activities such as singing songs or playing rhyming games.

kindergarten teachers often use more structured methods that focus on identifying and manipulating individual sounds in words, rather than directly spelling as they sound.