ED 412 - PRAXIS Review '22

Jodeen is a 7-year-old who has been evaluated and found to have a mild expressive language delay. Her hearing is normal, and her functioning in all areas other than expressive language is age appropriate. Which of the following placements would be most appropriate for Jodeen?

• A self-contained special education class with speech and language services 

• A part-time placement in a resource room for developmental and oral reading

• A full-time general education placement with speech and language services

• A full-time general education placement with an emphasis on reading support

A 13 year-old student with an emotional disturbance attends general education classes with the support of a 1:1 aide. A special education teacher provides consultation support to his general education teachers. As part of his IEP, he has a behavior support plan. In managing learning environments for the student, the most important first step for his special education teacher to take is to:

• Ensure that each of the student's teachers understands and follows consistently the interventions specified in his behavior support plan.

• Arrange for each of the students teachers to observe how he behaves in other classrooms.

• Ask each of the students teachers to identify one of the interventions specified in his behavior support plan to try using in their classroom.

• provide each of the students teachers a copy of his complete educational and behavior records

Which supportive classroom environment would best promote achievement?

• Student or learner centered

• Knowledge Centered

• Community Centered

• All of the above

An occupational therapist (OT) is unable to attend the initial IEP team meeting for a student with a traumatic brain injury. To meet federal requirements, the OT should provide the IEP team with which of the following before the meeting?

• Charts documenting the student’s percent of progress toward goals

• Written consent from the principal to be absent from the meeting

• Detailed recommendations for environmental modifications

• A written proposal for an alternative or additional staffing meeting

A special education teacher and a general education teacher are coteaching a first-grade class composed of students with and without IEPs. All special education services are provided within the classroom. Which of the following best describes the most successful collaborative relationship between the teachers?

• The special education teacher instructs only small groups of students with IEPs, and the general education teacher groups the rest of the students by ability.

• The special education and the general education teachers plan together and use dynamic grouping to ensure that students receive instruction from both teachers.

• The general education teacher takes on the leadership role in the classroom and shares daily lesson plans with the special education teacher.

• The general education teacher provides all direct instruction, and the special education teacher pulls small groups of students to reteach lessons as necessary.

Which instruction strategy is the most useful for a second grade learner that is being taught new material?

• Direct Instruction

• Interactive Instruction

• Independent Study

• All of the above

Which Educational Philosopher has the following theories? 1. The sensorimotor stage, from birth to age 2 2. The preoperational stage, from age 2 to about age 7 3. The concrete operational stage, from age 7 to 11 4. The formal operational stage, which begins in adolescence and spans into adulthood.

• Piaget

• Montessori

• Aquinas

• Dewey

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Autism?

• limited eye contact

• difficulty in understanding other people's feelings and expressing their own

• late development of physical growth

• atypical speech patterns and tone of voice

Under the provisions of IDEA, an Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) for a 2-year-old child is most likely to include

• a budget for early-intervention services

• plans for making the transition into preschool

• techniques for the family to use in introducing academic subjects

• a recommendation of counseling for the child’s siblings

In special education, what is a referral?

• A specific request for a student to receive interventions before evaluation

• A specific request for a student to be evaluated for eligibility

• A specific request for behavior observations to take place

• A specific request for interventions to be stopped