As students in a social studies class watch a video about the importance of recycling, the teacher periodically stops the video and poses questions about the ideas presented. This strategy is most probably motivated by the teacher's understanding that

teachers' efforts to maintain and reinforce student involvement correlate with students' cognitive engagement.

teachers should demonstrate and model the use of higher-order thinking skills.

students stay on task when they are aware that they are being monitored.

students need structured, well-managed environments.

The most appropriate way for a teacher to share an innovative instructional strategy with school colleagues is to

speak with the principal about demonstrating the strategy as part of a workshop for all interested teachers

send an email to all teachers describing the strategy and offering to demonstrate it in their classrooms.

speak with the superintendent about ways the strategy could be implemented throughout the school district.

explain the strategy at the next school board meeting.

Which of the following is most likely to promote the creative thinking skills of high school students?

in English, writing an original short story

in algebra, recognizing an equivalent representation of a numerical quantity

in economics, locating details on a graph, chart, or diagram

in science, predicting the logical next step

A student who exhibits a cognitive style that is right-brain dominant is likely to learn best through instruction based on

visual and kinesthetic global activities

presentation of content in small, step-by-step increments

detailed verbal explanations and instructions

objective, short-answer questioning

During a technology workshop, Mr. Black, the art teacher, tells the workshop presenter that he has been using a popular computer graphics software package in his classes and that his students thoroughly enjoy it. However, Mr. Black goes on to say that he has discovered that the school does not own any licensed copies of the software. What action, if any, should Mr. Black take?

Immediately remove all copies of the software from the computers in the classroom.

Continue to use the software, but contact the manufacturer about obtaining licensed copies.

Continue to use the software, but contact the district technology specialist and discuss the problem.

Continue to use the software and say nothing, because educators are allowed to use software without obtaining licensed copies.

Which of the following strategies should a fourth-grade teacher use to promote students' comprehension of expository text?

Giving them explicit instruction in identifying and using the various structures found in expository text.

Routinely assigning them challenging expository text to read that requires consulting resource materials

Encouraging them to memorize definitions of words they encounter frequently in expository text.

Rewarding them (for example, with free time) for reading unassigned expository text on their own

Mr. James, a new high school American history teacher, has asked Ms. Field, a mentor teacher, to observe a session of his history class because he has had difficulty motivating students to stay on task during cooperative learning activities. Mr. James can most effectively help Ms. Field prepare for the classroom observation by providing her with a

Lesson plan for the class session that she will be observing.

Seating chart that indicates the students who tend to be "ringleaders" of the off-task behavior.

Written detailed description of the problems he is having with students

List of all students' names along with designation of their current grades in the class.

A language arts teacher attended a summer workshop on critical thinking. The teacher plans to incorporate ideas from the workshop into her lessons. Which of the following language arts tasks would best elicit students' critical thinking skills?

Evaluating the effectiveness of a written response according to audience and purpose

Using a dictionary to find the meaning of words

Identifying and summarizing the major events in a narrative

Identifying standard English grammatical structures in a written work

A teacher has a class composed of students from varied cultural backgrounds. DVDs, CDs, magazines, and books related to the students' home culture would be most effectively used as resources for the purpose of

A teacher has a class composed of students from varied cultural backgrounds. DVDs, CDs, magazines, and books related to the students' home culture would be most effectively used as resources for the purpose of

Matching students according to similar cultural communication styles.

Determining students' personal interests related to their home cultures

Improving communication with the parents of students.

A teacher sees another faculty member commit a violation of Florida education rules. The teacher must

Report the alleged misconduct to appropriate authorities

Discuss the alleged misconduct with the other faculty members

Wait a reasonable period to see of the other faculty member self-reports the misconduct

Keep quiet about the matter because it would be unethical to tell on anyone about the alleged misconduct

Which of the following strategies is most effective for promoting students content area vocabulary development?

semantically grouping new vocabulary words in the content area with familiar words that have similar meaning

providing ongoing, corrective feedback regarding pronunciation during reading in the content area

giving frequent, short quizzes over content area vocabulary

having students look up the definitions of a set of assigned words related to the content area

When leading class discussions teachers should

establish positive interactions that support students' responses.

ask more questions of students sitting in the back of the room to make sure they are involved in the discussion.

mainly use questions that elicit specific, concrete information about the topic of discussion.

provide the correct answer if no one responds immediately.

A new high school English teacher joins the Florida Council of Teachers of English. Which of the following is the most significant benefit of joining a professional organization in one's content field?

increased opportunities to stay abreast of current developments in the field.

increased opportunities to obtain grants for school-based projects in the field.

expanded access to experienced mentors in the field.

expanded access to quality lesson plans and other instructional resources in the field.

When planning learning experiences for diverse students, which of the following is an important guideline for teachers to keep in mind?

Teachers should recognize that, within a particular cultural group, individual variation is to be expected.

Teachers should avoid incorporating the cultural backgrounds of their students into the curriculum.

Students from different cultural backgrounds will share few common educational interests and aspirations.

Students' cultural backgrounds have little impact on how students construct knowledge or interact in the classroom.

Students in a third-grade class are working in groups doing an experiment in which they drop a ball from various heights and measure the greatest height the ball reached when it bounced. Before the experiment begins, the teacher asks the students to formulate a hypothesis about what they expect to happen. After they have collected all their data, the students create a graph that shows maximum height reached when the ball was dropped from different heights. Afterward, which of the following prompts regarding the experiment would be most effective for assessing students' higher-order thinking skills?

Write a justification for the information shown in your graph.

Did you always measure the bounce to either the top or the bottom of the ball?

Did the ball bounce more times when it was dropped from a higher height?

Without referring to the instructions provided to you, write a set of step-by-step procedures that another person could follow to perform the experiment.

During a science unit on simple machines, a girl in the class complains to the teacher, "This is boy stuff. Why do I have to do it?" Several of the other girls in the class nod in agreement. The teacher ponders how best to deal with this incident. She should first

check herself to make sure she is not modeling any gender stereotyping.

lead a class discussion about science-related career opportunities.

check classroom materials to make sure they do not reflect gender stereotyping.

attend a workshop about promoting gender equity

A school district permits teachers to borrow computers from their schools to take home. According to the Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct for the Education Profession in Florida, if a teacher in the district borrows a computer from the school, it would be unethical for the teacher to

f ail to use the computer for authorized school business only.

fail to repair any damage that might occur to the computer when it is in his or her home.

keep the computer for more than one business day.

fail to delete his or her files before returning the computer

Which of the following assessment methods is most likely to yield valid information about what students know and understand?

informal observation with a checklist

A teacher begins a language arts class by saying, "Today, your 10-minute writing activity is on the subject of school uniforms. Please begin writing in your journals, and stop when I give the signal." Some of the students begin the writing assignment, but most of the students have puzzled expressions and are not writing. The teachers addresses the class, "Do you have a question about the assignment?" One student responds, "What do you want us to write? We don't understand."Which of the following tenets would have been most helpful for the teacher to consider when crafting the writing assignment?

Effective teachers communicate instructional tasks clearly to students.

Effective teachers know how to shape the classroom into a community of learners engaged in active inquiry.

Effective teachers use a variety of modes and tools of communication

Effective teachers appreciate the cultural dimensions of communication

A new high school teacher wants to learn how to more effectively lead whole-group class discussions. Which of the following measures probably would most help the teacher in improving his or her practice?

Arrange to observe a colleague who effectively uses whole-group discussions.

Ask colleagues for their opinions on whether holding whole-group class discussions is a worthwhile instructional activity.

Search the Internet for guidelines on how to effectively lead whole-group discussions and practice the advice provided.

Study articles in professional journals on how to effectively lead whole-group discussions.

Which of the following science tasks would best elicit students' critical thinking skills?

generalizing or drawing conclusions

solving a problem after choosing an appropriate formula

retrieving information from a chart, table, diagram, or graph

recognizing examples and nonexamples of concepts

Middle school students who are at risk of academic failure benefit most when

the students are given opportunities to experience academic success on assignments they perceive as meaningful and challenging

teachers help the students understand the structure and organization of school at the middle level.

the students are routinely grouped together to do class assignments to avoid being put in competition with their higher-achieving peers.

teachers minimize the use of any form of assessment to avoid causing stress due to low achievement.

Which of the following behaviors by a teacher most likely would be considered a violation of the Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct for the Education Profession in Florida?

In front of a student's classmates, a teacher makes disparaging comments about the student's answer to a question from the teacher.

In a private conference with a student, the teacher points out that the student is not performing as well academically as the other students in the class.

A teacher offers extra points for correcting tests, which tends to benefit lower-achieving students more than higher-achieving students.

A teacher has a disruptive student removed from the classroom and asks the principal not to return the disruptive student to the classroom.

A teacher who holds a valid Florida professional certificate wishes to add a subject coverage. The teacher most probably can obtain accurate information about adding a subject coverage to his or her professional certificate by contacting

a member of the district school board

As a culminating activity for a unit on nutrition, a high school interdisciplinary team plans to have an informal social event at school for their classes. Which of the following is most likely to occur when the social event takes place?

Field-independent learners will tend to be more passive than field-dependent learners during the event.

Field-independent learners and field-dependent learners will be equally active during the event.

Field-dependent learners will tend to be more passive than field-independent learners during the event.

B oth field-independent learners and field-dependent learners will be passive during the event

It is appropriate for a teacher to share information about a minor student without written permission from the student's parent when

colleague who is conducting a research project wants to use non-personally-identifiable information from the educational records kept by the teacher on the student.

school counselor who has been seeing the student wants to examine the educational records kept by the teacher on the student.

colleague who has the student in another class wants to look at the educational records kept by the teacher on the student.

noncustodial parent want to review the educational records kept by the teacher on the student.

Current thinking regarding literacy instruction calls for a balanced and comprehensive approach to early reading instruction that includes

Explicit, systematic phonics instruction in the context of meaningful connected reading of informative, engaging text.

Intense instruction in phonics followed by literature-based, integrated language arts instruction.

Explicit, systematic phonics instruction alternated with basal reading program that includes grade-level reading materials for students.

Implicit acquisition of word recognition skills in the context of literature-based, integrated language arts instruction.

A high school economics teacher has students work as members of an investment team in a stock market simulation activity over a period of weeks. At the end of the simulation activity, each team must summarize its activities and present a report to the entire class. After the reports have been presented, the teacher asks the students to write a journal entry in which they assess the effectiveness of their investment team's decision making during the stock market simulation. Which of the following is a primary benefit of having the students reflect on the effectiveness of their team's decision making?

It will promote self-assessment on the part of the students

It will promote a healthy, competitive spirit among the students

It will allow the teacher to reward those students who exhibited leadership skills

It will provide a means for the teacher to assess the students' ability to apply decision-making skills

A teacher has observed that, during the whole-class discussions, English Language Learners (ELLs) in her classroom rarely volunteer comments. In leading class discussions, it is important the teacher is aware that

Cultural factors as well as language ability affect the extent to which ELLs speak out in class.

Asking the ELLs less challenging questions they can get right will make them more willing to participate in future discussions.

ELLs who are more willing to speak in class are usually more proficient language users than those who are reluctant to speak

Probing for further explanation or clarification when ELLs give responses should be avoided, so that they will not be embarrassed in front of their peers.

To encourage students to think critically and consider a variety of ideas during a class discussion, a teacher should ask

who, what, where, and when questions

A teacher who has academically gifted students in the class can best prepare to work with these students by keeping in mind they need

Opportunities for independent learning that encourage them to apply creative and critical thinking

Time to work independently when their peers are working in small groups

Structured activities that reinforce basic skills more often than their peers

External rewards because they often lack intrinsic motivation to learn

A fifth-grade student has a grade equivalent score of 7.6 on a standardized reading test. The student's grade equivalent score indicates that the student

Did as well on the test as an average seventh-grader in the sixth month of the school year would do on the same standardized reading test that the fifth-grade student took.

Is ready for seventh-grade reading material.

Is in the top 7.6 percent of students who took the test.

Did as well on the test as an average seventh-grader in the sixth month of the school year would do on a standardized seventh-grade reading test.

During an informal conversation, a second-grade English Language Learner (ELL) tells his teacher, "My madre - I mean, my mother - she work on grocery store." Which of the following would be the most appropriate teacher feedback in response to the student's statement?

"Your mother works in a grocery store? What does she do there?"

"Oh, so the Spanish word for mother is madre? That's good to know.

"What should you do to the verb work when it comes after the word she?"

"Should you say, "on a grocery store' or 'in a grocery store'?"

In which of the following classes is the activity LEAST consistent with a tactile/kinesthetic modality preference?

In mathematics, students do a survey on favorite jean brands and summarize results.

In language arts, students put on a play and dress in costumes.

In social studies, students participate in a simulation activity acting out a historical event.

In science, students work in small groups to compare the heat reflection properties of various fabrics

The Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener (FLKRS) is administered to all kindergarten students in Florida public schools to assess their school readiness at the beginning of the school year. This assessment practice can be expected to enhance the children's experiences in kindergarten by

Helping teachers to ensure instruction is developmentally appropriate for the children in their classes.

Promoting the children's awareness of their own skills and needs and thereby their ability to choose personally useful learning activities.

Helping teachers to determine whether teacher-directed or student-directed activities will best achieve targeted learning standards.

Encouraging children to view the classroom as a place where academic learning and progress are important.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following measures is a type of summative assessment?

an End-of-Course assessment

a homework assignment

a learning styles inventory

a whole-class question and answer session

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Students in a social studies class are having a whole-class discussion about the preservation of historical landmarks in their community. What are students likely to learn from the class discussion?

Historical landmarks have little economic value

Accurate information is critical for effective communication

Community problems can be solved through thoughtful discussion.

Working with others can lead to better and quicker solutions to problems.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A new teacher is using innovative instructional methods in his English class. To best ensure a supportive attitude from the principal, the teacher should

Invite the principal to visit his class to observe his teaching methods and their effects.

Present the principal with copies of scientifically based research that supports the teacher's instructional methods.

Send weekly reports to the principal to keep the principal apprised of the progress of the teacher's students.

. Organize parents to send e-mails to the principal supporting the teacher's instructional methods.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

After a science experiment, a high school teacher asks students to respond to the following two prompts:
1. Justify the results of your experiment.
2. Formulate a theory based on the results of your experiment.

helps them recall facts and basic concepts

allows them to apply their learning in a new context

provides a means for the teacher to assess their learning.

promotes their critical and creative thinking skills

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

With regard to administration of the mandatory statewide assessments, which of the following actions by a teacher would be considered unethical?

To present lessons in advance that focus on the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

To use a seating chart to plan and record student seat assignments in the testing room

To remain in the testing room when the students are taking the assessment.

To question students on test content or test items after the days set aside for state testing have passed.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

To become successful readers, which of the following skills is most important for students to have upon entering first grade?

the ability to recognize letters by name

the ability to recite the alphabet

the ability to recognize short, high-frequency sight words

the ability to use picture clues to aid in decoding text.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A student who scores at the 80th percentile on a standardized achievement test has

Scored the same as or better than 80 percent of a norm group

Scored better than 20 percent of a norm group

Correctly answered 80 percent of the test questions.

Correctly answered 20 percent of the test questions.

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FTC Professional Education Practice Test

Which of the following measures is a type of summative assessment?

Students in a social studies class are having a whole-class discussion about the preservation of historical landmarks in their community. What are students likely to learn from the class discussion?

A new teacher is using innovative instructional methods in his English class. To best ensure a supportive attitude from the principal, the teacher should

After a science experiment, a high school teacher asks students to respond to the following two prompts:1. Justify the results of your experiment.2. Formulate a theory based on the results of your experiment.

With regard to administration of the mandatory statewide assessments, which of the following actions by a teacher would be considered unethical?

To become successful readers, which of the following skills is most important for students to have upon entering first grade?

A student who scores at the 80th percentile on a standardized achievement test has

As students in a social studies class watch a video about the importance of recycling, the teacher periodically stops the video and poses questions about the ideas presented. This strategy is most probably motivated by the teacher's understanding that

The most appropriate way for a teacher to share an innovative instructional strategy with school colleagues is to

Which of the following is most likely to promote the creative thinking skills of high school students?

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