FTCE Professional Education Practice Test #1/
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A social studies teacher asks the A
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
,During a class discussion, for which A
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
After reading essays students have A
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.
,Which of the following actions B
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.
, Students in a fourth-grade class are A
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
Strategies Review of Key Quizzes & Correct
Answers.
Save
Terms in this set (120)
A social studies teacher asks the A
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
,During a class discussion, for which A
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
After reading essays students have A
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.
,Which of the following actions B
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.
, Students in a fourth-grade class are A
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
