Exploring Teaching as a Career

Which of the following would not be a personality characteristic for an effective teacher to have?

• Caring
  
• Kindness
• Intolerance
• Commitment 

Students who attend a community college and plan to transfer to a four-year college or university often earn which type of degree?

• Associate’s
  
• Bachelor’s 
• Master’s 
• Doctorate 

Postsecondary programs include which of the following? 

• Technical schools
  
• Community colleges
  
• Four-year colleges 
• Technical schools,  Community colleges, &  Four-year colleges 

Refers to an arrangement in which the same teacher and group of students remain in one classroom for most of the day, with one teacher teaching most or all subjects.

• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning
• curriculum
• nonsectarian

Learning that takes place when students work in groups to discuss and solve problems together.

• self-contained classrooms
• curriculum
• nonsectarian
• collaborative learning

The courses taught in a school, what is taught in each course, and how the courses are sequenced.

• curriculum
• nonsectarian
• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning

Not based on, or affiliated with, any religion.

• abstract thinking
• concrete thinking
• paraprofessional
• nonsectarian

Thinking about things that are actually experienced.

• curriculum
• abstract thinking
• concrete thinking
• school-based curriculum

A person who has less education or experience but works under the supervision of a more highly educated professional.

• teacher
• paraprofessional
• corporate trainers
• self-contained classrooms

Thinking about ideas and concepts and connecting feelings with thoughts (for example, justice or love).

• school-based curriculum
• concrete thinking
• curriculum
• abstract thinking