FTCE Practice

A student is having trouble completing assignments on time. What can the teacher do to motivate the students to finish assignments on time?

• Design a contract with the student with short-term and long-term goals and designated assignment due dates

• Call home and talk to the students’ parents. Try to get the parents to help at home with the situation

• Give the student a detention every time the student is late turning in assignments

• Ask the peer teacher what to do about the student. Implement the strategies the peer teacher suggest

A student is engaging in a goal-setting activity. He is looking at previous assignments, writing, and test to determine his long-term and short-term goals for the year. What is the role of the teacher in this situation?

• Set parameters for the student regarding goals

• Assist students when needed

• Notify parents of the goals set by the student

• Transfer the goals into data folders to be evaluated later

A teacher is administering a pretest on chemical energy. She will use the test to make decisions on how to move forward in a unit. the teacher is using a:

• Diagnostic assessment

• Formative assessment

• Criterion-referenced assessment

• Norm-referenced assessment

What would be the most effective way for a teacher to foster critical thinking in a unit about the Vietnam War?

• Have students identify all the world leaders during the time of the war

• Have students read about the Vietnam War and write an essay on their understanding of the topic

• Have students work in groups to compare and contrast people’s feelings about the war

• Have students interview people who were alive during that era and evaluate how the war impacted communities

A teacher has a piece of text projected on the board, and the teacher and the class are reading in unison. This exercise is:

• Round robin reading

• Choral Reading

• Repeated reading

• Pre-reading

After being hired at Gulf High School, the teacher decides to interview in another county where she can make more money. If she is hired by the other county, she would:

• Be fired immediately

• Be permitted to leave after six months of teaching at the original school

• Be permitted to leave immediately to teach in the other county

• Be in breach of her contract

Students are categorizing words

1) “I don’t know this word well”

2)” I sort of know this word.”

3)” I have no idea what this word means.”

The students are engaging in a:

• Graphic Organizer

• Word Sort

• Kagan strategy

• KWL chart

An ESE student who uses a wheelchair will be joining your class. You should place the student:

• In the back of the room

• In the front of the room

• Close to the door

• In the least restrictive environment (LRE)