FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1
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1. A social studies teacher asks the students in the class A
how they could use the word HOMES to help them
remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, On-
tario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quick-
ly 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
2. During a class discussion, for which of the following A
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
3. After reading essays students have written, a A
sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a col-
league 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.
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D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge
and practices.
4. Which of the following actions should the teacher take B
at the end of a computer simulation activity to pro-
mote 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.
5. Students in a fourth-grade class are making draw- A
ings to illustrate their writing projects. The teacher
observes a few students who are artistically talent-
ed 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
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rude behavior and enforce the consequences consis-
tently
6. Which of the following would constitute a violation of C
the Florida Code of Ethics and Principles of Profession-
al 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
7. In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legisla- B
tion 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 exposi-
tory text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academi-
cally challenging assignments that are reading-inten-
sive
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 assign-
ments in the content areas as much on their adher-
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ence to specific processes as on the content of the
final product
8. A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment C
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 assess-
ing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging
expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assess-
ment 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 knowl-
edge and skills.
9. After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a B
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 assign-
ment?
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 paraphras-
ing
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1. A social studies teacher asks the students in the class A
how they could use the word HOMES to help them
remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, On-
tario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quick-
ly 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
2. During a class discussion, for which of the following A
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
3. After reading essays students have written, a A
sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a col-
league 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.
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D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge
and practices.
4. Which of the following actions should the teacher take B
at the end of a computer simulation activity to pro-
mote 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.
5. Students in a fourth-grade class are making draw- A
ings to illustrate their writing projects. The teacher
observes a few students who are artistically talent-
ed 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
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rude behavior and enforce the consequences consis-
tently
6. Which of the following would constitute a violation of C
the Florida Code of Ethics and Principles of Profession-
al 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
7. In recent years, the Florida Legislature passed legisla- B
tion 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 exposi-
tory text?
A. regularly require struggling readers to do academi-
cally challenging assignments that are reading-inten-
sive
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 assign-
ments in the content areas as much on their adher-
, FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1
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ence to specific processes as on the content of the
final product
8. A teacher is concerned about appropriate assessment C
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 assess-
ing their progress.
B. modify their assignments to reflect less-challenging
expectations.
C. use a variety of formal and informal assess-
ment 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 knowl-
edge and skills.
9. After giving an assignment, a teacher notices that a B
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 assign-
ment?
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 paraphras-
ing
