FTCE Professional Education Practice
Test 1 Questions With 100% Correct
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\Q\.A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they could use the word HOMES
to help them remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and
Superior. The students quickly recognize that the first letters of the names of the lakes can be
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to memorizing information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes would it be appropriate for a
teacher to ask a closed-ended questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a
colleague about how to improve the quality of students' writing assignments. The teacher's
decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the following principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective practitioners.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make decisions.
,C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of desired outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices. - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a computer simulation
activity to promote students' evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the simulation activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell why they did or did not like
the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in the simulation activity.
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they learned from the simulation
activity. - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate their writing projects. The
teacher observes a few students who are artistically talented making rude comments about the
drawings of their classmates who are less artistically inclined. The teacher immediately lets the
rude students know that such behavior will not be tolerated. The best follow-up response from
the teacher to this situation is to
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the Internet to illustrate their
writing project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their classmates who are less artistically
inclined to help them create better drawings.
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and talk with them about respecting
others.
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude behavior and enforce the
consequences consistently - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida Code of Ethics and
Principles of Professional Conduct?
A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue concerning a student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
,C. representing one's personal views as those or the school district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that focuses on using reading as
the foundation to improve student achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the
following ways would be best for promoting struggling middle school readers' growth as
effective and competent readers of expository text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically challenging assignments that are
reading-intensive
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to use different comprehension
strategies and to repair comprehension problems
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice of skimming through every text
that they plan to read before actually reading it.
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in the content areas as much on
their adherence to specific processes as on the content of the final product - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area learning for students
in the class who have histories of limited academic success. To ensure fair and accurate
assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for the teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as observations, interviews,
test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in assessing their acquisition
of knowledge and skills. - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is frowning. The teacher
walks over to Carl's desk and the following exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
, Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk about it?
In her interaction with Carl, which of the following elements of effective communication did the
teacher exhibit?
A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and paraphrasing
B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a reflective listener
C. being a thoughtful questioner and paraphrasing
D. redirecting and paraphrasing - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.A high school calculus teacher decides to attend a workshop on a sophisticated
mathematical software program at a state conference. The teacher's probable purpose for
attending the workshop is to
A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
B. participate in collaborative decision making.
C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly defined goals.
D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge - ANSWERS✔-D
\Q\.An interdisciplinary team of middle school teachers wants to develop lessons that promote
students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the following is most likely to promote the
higher-order thinking skills of middle school students?
A. in math, filling in the missing components of a pattern
B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing significant events of a historical period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.A first-year third-grade teacher has received her class roster for the upcoming school year.
She notes that the 19 students in her class are culturally diverse and that two students are
receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services - one is visually impaired, and the other
has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom layout, it is most important for the teacher to
consider the
Test 1 Questions With 100% Correct
Answers
\Q\.A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they could use the word HOMES
to help them remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and
Superior. The students quickly recognize that the first letters of the names of the lakes can be
arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to memorizing information best exemplifies using
A. an acronym
B. chunking
C. rehearsal
D. rote - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes would it be appropriate for a
teacher to ask a closed-ended questions?
A. to check for agreement among students
B. to encourage brainstorming
C. to probe for more information
D. to foster creativity - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a
colleague about how to improve the quality of students' writing assignments. The teacher's
decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the following principles?
A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective practitioners.
B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make decisions.
,C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of desired outcomes.
D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices. - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a computer simulation
activity to promote students' evaluation-level thinking?
A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the simulation activity.
B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell why they did or did not like
the simulation activity.
C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in the simulation activity.
D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they learned from the simulation
activity. - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate their writing projects. The
teacher observes a few students who are artistically talented making rude comments about the
drawings of their classmates who are less artistically inclined. The teacher immediately lets the
rude students know that such behavior will not be tolerated. The best follow-up response from
the teacher to this situation is to
A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the Internet to illustrate their
writing project
B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their classmates who are less artistically
inclined to help them create better drawings.
C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and talk with them about respecting
others.
D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude behavior and enforce the
consequences consistently - ANSWERS✔-A
\Q\.Which of the following would constitute a violation of the Florida Code of Ethics and
Principles of Professional Conduct?
A. disagreeing with the principal about a discipline issue concerning a student
B. presenting diverse points of view about a topic to students
,C. representing one's personal views as those or the school district
D. dating a colleague who teaches in the same school - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legislation that focuses on using reading as
the foundation to improve student achievement in all subject areas. In general, which of the
following ways would be best for promoting struggling middle school readers' growth as
effective and competent readers of expository text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academically challenging assignments that are
reading-intensive
B. provide instruction to help struggling learn when and how to use different comprehension
strategies and to repair comprehension problems
C. explicitly teach struggling readers to make a regular practice of skimming through every text
that they plan to read before actually reading it.
D. base struggling readers' grades on research assignments in the content areas as much on
their adherence to specific processes as on the content of the final product - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment of content area learning for students
in the class who have histories of limited academic success. To ensure fair and accurate
assessment of these students, it would be most appropriate for the teacher to
A. develop separate, more lenient criteria for assessing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assessment measures, such as observations, interviews,
test scores, and samples of daily work.
D. rely mainly on the use of students' self-assessment procedures in assessing their acquisition
of knowledge and skills. - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a student, Carl, is frowning. The teacher
walks over to Carl's desk and the following exchange occurs:
Teacher: Do you have a question about the assignment?
Carl: This is a stupid assignment.
, Teacher: You sound upset. Would you like to talk about it?
In her interaction with Carl, which of the following elements of effective communication did the
teacher exhibit?
A. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and paraphrasing
B. being sensitive to nonverbal cues and being a reflective listener
C. being a thoughtful questioner and paraphrasing
D. redirecting and paraphrasing - ANSWERS✔-B
\Q\.A high school calculus teacher decides to attend a workshop on a sophisticated
mathematical software program at a state conference. The teacher's probable purpose for
attending the workshop is to
A. be a risk-taker and innovator.
B. participate in collaborative decision making.
C. demonstrate that the teacher has clearly defined goals.
D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge - ANSWERS✔-D
\Q\.An interdisciplinary team of middle school teachers wants to develop lessons that promote
students' higher-order thinking skills. Which of the following is most likely to promote the
higher-order thinking skills of middle school students?
A. in math, filling in the missing components of a pattern
B. in social studies, creating a timeline showing significant events of a historical period
C. in science, graphing data from an experiment
D. in language arts, memorizing a favorite poem - ANSWERS✔-C
\Q\.A first-year third-grade teacher has received her class roster for the upcoming school year.
She notes that the 19 students in her class are culturally diverse and that two students are
receiving Exceptional Student Education (ESE) services - one is visually impaired, and the other
has mild hearing loss. In planning her classroom layout, it is most important for the teacher to
consider the
