PLT Practice 1

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Which practice is not associated with Piagetian Theory?

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Aligning state-mandated standards

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Which of the following is the most reasonable statement based on the self-determination theory?

Teachers should enable students to be successful either through extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation, but never both.
Students who are prodded and able to accept help from others will display the most self-determination in school.
Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to others will be intrinsically motivated.

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Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to others will be intrinsically motivated.

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Michael, a middle school student diagnosed with an emotional disturbance, has difficulty controlling behaviors that interfere with his academic growth and development. Which of the following is the most effective teacher strategy for helping Michael focus on academics? Minimizing visual and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly outlining areas where specific behaviors are expected

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Minimizing visual and auditory stimuli for the student and clearly outlining areas where specific behaviors are expected

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A teacher wants to learn how to implement an instructional strategy for the upcoming school year. Which professional development practice will best help the teacher? Options: Attending a workshop, Taking a graduate course, Obtaining an internship, Joining a learning community

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Attending a workshop

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Which of the following best explains why grade-equivalent scores are useful? They determine whether a student can handle advanced content and should be accelerated to a higher grade. They provide a reliable way to interpret a student’s growth in skills and concepts over a school year. They provide a reliable way to interpret a student’s growth in skills and concepts over a school year. They compare a student’s performance with the average performance of students at other grade levels.

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They compare a student’s performance with the average performance of students at other grade levels.

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Which of the following is the most reasonable statement based on the self-determination theory? Teachers should enable students to be successful either through extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation, but never both. Students who are prodded and able to accept help from others will display the most self-determination in school. Self-determination is achieved when students transfer intrinsic motivation to extrinsic motivation regarding academics. Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to others will be intrinsically motivated.

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Students who are academically competent, independent, and able to relate to others will be intrinsically motivated.

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Mr. Burgess is creating a lesson for his eighth-grade English class to introduce a new novel with vivid descriptions of a historical event. He needs to establish the historical background to engage students in a preliminary dialogue about the event before they read the novel. Which strategy uses the most appropriate resource for introducing the new content? Options: A. Creating research groups to access information about the event on the Internet, B. Providing a textbook in which students can look up content vocabulary, C. Showing an educational video on the event to the class, D. Reviewing surveys of student content knowledge

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Showing an educational video on the event to the class

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Which of the following best describes the type of scoring that applies many criteria at the same time to evaluate an end-of-course project and results in a single grade? Task-specific scoring, Developmental scoring, Analytic scoring, Holistic scoring

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Holistic scoring

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A seventh-grade language arts teacher plans an instructional unit based on a novel that students will read in class. Which of the following activities is most appropriate to include in the unit if the students are in the formal operational stage of cognitive development? Writing an explanation about the symbolism found in the novel, Working with other students to role-play scenes from the novel, Sketching drawings of the sequence of the major events in the novel, Matching main ideas with the details that support them in the novel

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Writing an explanation about the symbolism found in the novel

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Which of the following approaches is the best way to establish and foster positive relationships between the school and families? Meeting and greeting families as they arrive to school events, Asking families to volunteer at school events several times during the year, Communicating important school information to families electronically, Holding parent-teacher conferences during the school day

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Meeting and greeting families as they arrive to school events