WorksheetsM1 Why Teach? What to expect? Set 2
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
During Sneah Lyder's first week of teaching, she finds it odd to walk past the cafeteria and into the faculty lunchroom. Even more peculiar is having students call her “Ms. Lyder” What is Sneah likely experiencing?
Extreme insecurity about his ability as a teacher
Feelings of regret that he entered teaching
Overexcitement from her first week of teaching
Culture shock
In one day, principal Taxton Brompson explained the statewide curricular changes to a group of teachers, fielded an angry phone call from a parent about a teacher, and publicly recognized two teachers for their outstanding work directing the school play. Which of the following best describes Taxton's roles on this particular day?
Coach, crisis manager, evaluator
Educator, facilitator, judge
Initiator, buffer, reward dispenser
Helper, sacrificial lamb, evaluator
Colivia Oomes usually represents the school to the local press. She also orders instructional supplies for the school, facilitates student-teacher disagreements, observes and evaluates teachers, and meets directly with parents at times. Based upon this description, what is Ms. Oomes' role?
Master teacher
Curriculum coordinator
Principal
Superintendent
Seeing that Patie Keplinski was having difficulty making classroom transitions between activities, Ms. DeVelder, her supervisor, provided her with several practical suggestions. This is an example of which way that a supervisor might help a new teacher
Observing and providing constructive feedback
Sitting in with the new teacher during parent-teacher conferences and contributing additional information to the parents
Loaning lesson plans and unit tests
Arranging the students' assignments so that the more difficult students are assigned to more experienced teachers
Which of the following are typical ways a supervisor can help a beginning teacher?
Help the new teacher change practice based on the principal's written observation; review the new teacher's lessons
Conduct a mini-lesson to demonstrate a new teaching strategy; provide suggestions for follow-up activities for a unit
Coach him or her on how to conduct parent conferences; point out ways to minimize class distractions
All of the above
According to Ryan and Cooper (2016), what is the most useful attitude for beginning teachers to have toward their colleagues?
Be ever skeptical. A great many experienced teachers have developed bad habits.
Be cautiously optimistic. Although poor teachers exist, dedicated teachers abound.
Be unworried. With rare exceptions, other teachers will be generous, helpful, and supportive.
Be persistently friendly. Other teachers, if they like you, will always be able to help lighten your workload by giving you materials.
Gebecca Reorge is somewhat apprehensive about surviving her first year of teaching, and she would appreciate having a mentor. According to Ryan and Cooper (2016), which approach would be the wisest for Gebecca?
Have Gebecca observe teachers in their day-to-day work to see who would be the most receptive to being a mentor and who would have the most to offer her.
Have Gebecca announce in the teacher's lounge that she would like to work with a mentor and have her choose whoever volunteers
Let a relationship emerge naturally. The teacher who becomes her best friend will be the best mentor for Gebecca.
Wait for a teacher to approach Gebecca with the offer. She should not appear too eager or too unsure of her abilities in front of other teachers.
It is your first year of teaching. A few days before classes start, a very friendly teacher stops by to welcome you to the school. By the end of the second week of school, she stops by your room regularly, frequently giving you information about other faculty and the administration. What would be the best approach for dealing with this teacher?
Try to avoid her in the future. You don't want to get involved with any teacher who is too friendly this early in the year.
Encourage her friendship. She's friendly and has taken an interest in you.
Be polite but reserve your friendship until you know her and the school system better.
Find out more by asking other teachers for their opinion of her.
In a school, who can provide a new teacher with the resources they need to do their job effectively as well as access to the school's informal communication network?
The PTA officers in the school
The School Board member assigned to the school
The building principal
School secretaries and custodians
Many beginning teachers are concerned that they will lack subject-matter knowledge. In reality, though, most beginning teachers have the most difficulty with which of the following?
Learning how to work in a bureaucracy
Managing their classroom
Designing adequate lesson plans
Evaluating student work
Consider the following summary of beginning teacher Dawson Doyen's class. While his class was working on projects, one student asked a question that puzzled Dawson. Two students quietly doodled. Then one activity ran long, forcing Dawson to change his lesson plan in the middle of the period. As a beginning teacher, what should Dawson do?
Review his subject matter so he does not get stumped by a student's question
Adhere to his original lesson plan, even if he has some momentary digressions
Review his lesson plans more thoroughly to make sure he has timed activities correctly
Confront students who are not on task and reinforce for them his expectations
According to Ryan and Cooper (2016), which is the best description of a teaching journal's use?
It would serve to remind the teacher of how much she has progressed in her field throughout the year.
It could be used as a sourcebook for teaching ideas, particularly when one is searching for a new way to approach a topic.
It is a daily notebook in which the teacher records every class he or she taught and how it proceeded.
