FTCE Professional Education Test (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) –
Exam with Questions and Answers
A culturally responsive teacher should be aware of students':
a. social skills.
b. home culture.
c. interests and attitudes.
d. all of the above. - ✔✔✔-D. To be a culturally responsive teacher you must be aware of the
student's home culture, determine how it impacts social skills, and be aware of the student's
personal interests and attitudes.
A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text. The four
basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are:
a. summarize what you know, list what you want to learn, record what you have learned, then
teach it to a friend.
b. predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing.
c. preparing, presenting, correcting, and verifying.
d. summarizing, diagramming, designing, and pesenting. - ✔✔✔-B. Reciprocal teaching is a
strategy that allows students to alternate between the role of teacher and student. A student
reads a selection, then teaches what was learned to a classmate or group of students. The four
steps of reciprocal teaching are first to predict what the selection will be about, then ask
questions while reading the material, then clarify the author's meaning, and finally summarize
the text.
According to Bloom, how many types of educational objectives are there? - ✔✔✔-Three -
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
Action research - ✔✔✔-When a classroom teacher records a lesson in order to reflect on its
effectiveness at a later date, the teacher is participating in____
An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their children. The
most effeictive way to do this while fostering parent communication is to:
,FTCE Professional Education Test (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) –
Exam with Questions and Answers
a. invite parents to a "reading night" where studtns and parents meet to read and share favorite
poems.
b. develop a reaing log and have parents sign that they read with the child for 30 minutes each
night.
c. send home a newsletter that describes how reading with your child is beneficial.
d. offer extra credit for students who read at home on a regular basis. - ✔✔✔-A. Although all of
the selections encourage reading, choice A, the reading night for parents and students, best
meets the teacher's objective. A reading night would encourage parents to start reading with
their children. It would also provide an opportunity to interact with the parents, fostering an
open line of communication.
An intermeidate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her students to
categorize items as a scietist would, while appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence.
Which plan would best meet her objective?
a. Plan an outdoor trip and have students gather items then work in groups to sort them based
on their categories.
c. Assemble an assortment of items found in nature and hae students work in cooperative
learning groups to sort the items in various ways that demonstrate knowledge of physical
characteristcs.
d. Hae students use graphic organizers, brainstorm items that are found in nature, sort them
into catorgiries, then report their results ot the class. - ✔✔✔-A. Only choice A gets the students
out of the classroom and into nature. Students with a naturalistic intelligence function best
when the subject matter concerns things found in the natural world.
Authentic Assessment - ✔✔✔-Assessment that incorporates real-life application tasks, and
complex educational performances. Also known as "performance assessment" and
"process/product assessment."
Bodily kinesthetic - ✔✔✔-The ability to use the body or body parts
Computer software needs - ✔✔✔-Immediate feedback
, FTCE Professional Education Test (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) –
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concrete operational stage - ✔✔✔-in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable
them to think logically about concrete events
criterion-referenced test - ✔✔✔-A test that assesses students by comparing their performance
to predetermined level of mastery. Example: the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT
2.0).
Deductive thinking - ✔✔✔-When students start with a generalized principle, then apply it to
specific situations. This is generally a more teacher-centered approach to learning
Developed the idea of multiple intelligence - ✔✔✔-Howard Gardner
diagnostic - ✔✔✔-This assessment is administered before instruction to determine how much a
student knows, and where their learning gaps might be.
Drill and practice is primarily used to:
a. practice previously learned skills.
b. expose students to new concepts.
c. keep students on task in class.
d. reteach a skill that a student has failed to master. - ✔✔✔-A. Drill and practice problems
should only be used to practice previously learned skills.
Essay question - ✔✔✔-Divergent test questions can have a multitude of answers. ______
questions are divergent.
Exam with Questions and Answers
A culturally responsive teacher should be aware of students':
a. social skills.
b. home culture.
c. interests and attitudes.
d. all of the above. - ✔✔✔-D. To be a culturally responsive teacher you must be aware of the
student's home culture, determine how it impacts social skills, and be aware of the student's
personal interests and attitudes.
A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text. The four
basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are:
a. summarize what you know, list what you want to learn, record what you have learned, then
teach it to a friend.
b. predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing.
c. preparing, presenting, correcting, and verifying.
d. summarizing, diagramming, designing, and pesenting. - ✔✔✔-B. Reciprocal teaching is a
strategy that allows students to alternate between the role of teacher and student. A student
reads a selection, then teaches what was learned to a classmate or group of students. The four
steps of reciprocal teaching are first to predict what the selection will be about, then ask
questions while reading the material, then clarify the author's meaning, and finally summarize
the text.
According to Bloom, how many types of educational objectives are there? - ✔✔✔-Three -
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
Action research - ✔✔✔-When a classroom teacher records a lesson in order to reflect on its
effectiveness at a later date, the teacher is participating in____
An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their children. The
most effeictive way to do this while fostering parent communication is to:
,FTCE Professional Education Test (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) –
Exam with Questions and Answers
a. invite parents to a "reading night" where studtns and parents meet to read and share favorite
poems.
b. develop a reaing log and have parents sign that they read with the child for 30 minutes each
night.
c. send home a newsletter that describes how reading with your child is beneficial.
d. offer extra credit for students who read at home on a regular basis. - ✔✔✔-A. Although all of
the selections encourage reading, choice A, the reading night for parents and students, best
meets the teacher's objective. A reading night would encourage parents to start reading with
their children. It would also provide an opportunity to interact with the parents, fostering an
open line of communication.
An intermeidate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her students to
categorize items as a scietist would, while appealing to students with a naturalistic intelligence.
Which plan would best meet her objective?
a. Plan an outdoor trip and have students gather items then work in groups to sort them based
on their categories.
c. Assemble an assortment of items found in nature and hae students work in cooperative
learning groups to sort the items in various ways that demonstrate knowledge of physical
characteristcs.
d. Hae students use graphic organizers, brainstorm items that are found in nature, sort them
into catorgiries, then report their results ot the class. - ✔✔✔-A. Only choice A gets the students
out of the classroom and into nature. Students with a naturalistic intelligence function best
when the subject matter concerns things found in the natural world.
Authentic Assessment - ✔✔✔-Assessment that incorporates real-life application tasks, and
complex educational performances. Also known as "performance assessment" and
"process/product assessment."
Bodily kinesthetic - ✔✔✔-The ability to use the body or body parts
Computer software needs - ✔✔✔-Immediate feedback
, FTCE Professional Education Test (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) –
Exam with Questions and Answers
concrete operational stage - ✔✔✔-in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from
about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable
them to think logically about concrete events
criterion-referenced test - ✔✔✔-A test that assesses students by comparing their performance
to predetermined level of mastery. Example: the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT
2.0).
Deductive thinking - ✔✔✔-When students start with a generalized principle, then apply it to
specific situations. This is generally a more teacher-centered approach to learning
Developed the idea of multiple intelligence - ✔✔✔-Howard Gardner
diagnostic - ✔✔✔-This assessment is administered before instruction to determine how much a
student knows, and where their learning gaps might be.
Drill and practice is primarily used to:
a. practice previously learned skills.
b. expose students to new concepts.
c. keep students on task in class.
d. reteach a skill that a student has failed to master. - ✔✔✔-A. Drill and practice problems
should only be used to practice previously learned skills.
Essay question - ✔✔✔-Divergent test questions can have a multitude of answers. ______
questions are divergent.
