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FTCE Professional Education Practice
Test #1
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 - correct-answer -B
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.
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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. - correct-answer -C
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 - correct-answer -B
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.
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D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge - correct-answer -
D
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 - correct-answer -C
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
A. materials and resources available in her classroom.
B. availability of assistive technology equipment in the school.
C. potential discipline problems she might encounter with such a varied group of
students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to use in her classroom. - correct-
answer -D
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Ms. Kim, a middle school teacher, overhears two students, Jimmy and Curtis,
talking about drugs. The teacher confronts the students to discuss what she
heard. Following is an excerpt from their discussion:
Ms. Kim: Jimmy, I want to talk to you about what you said to Curtis about needing
some drugs.
Jimmy: Ms. Kim, you got it all wrong. I was just kiddin' around. I don't do drugs.
Curtis: That's right, Ms. Kim. Jimmy doesn't mess with drugs.
Ms. Kim: I'm not so sure. Some of your other teachers have told me that your
grades have dropped a lot since school started, Jimmy. Aren't you failing math and
English?
Jimmy: Well, I'm not doing real good in school right now, but it's not because of
drugs. You gotta believe me, Ms. Kim
Ms. Kim: Well, you two go on to your next class. I'll talk to you about this later.
When Ms. Kim discussed Jimmy's grades in front of Curtis, her actions were
A. Inappropriate, because the suspect - correct-answer -B
Which of the following strategies would be best for developing a fourth-grade
student's reading fluency?
A. Encourage the student to reread books written at the student's independent
reading level.
B. Encourage the student to memorize common phonics rules to improve
decoding skills.
FTCE Professional Education Practice
Test #1
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 - correct-answer -B
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.
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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. - correct-answer -C
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 - correct-answer -B
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.
,3|Page
D. enhance the teacher's own professional skills and knowledge - correct-answer -
D
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 - correct-answer -C
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
A. materials and resources available in her classroom.
B. availability of assistive technology equipment in the school.
C. potential discipline problems she might encounter with such a varied group of
students
D. instructional approaches she is planning to use in her classroom. - correct-
answer -D
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Ms. Kim, a middle school teacher, overhears two students, Jimmy and Curtis,
talking about drugs. The teacher confronts the students to discuss what she
heard. Following is an excerpt from their discussion:
Ms. Kim: Jimmy, I want to talk to you about what you said to Curtis about needing
some drugs.
Jimmy: Ms. Kim, you got it all wrong. I was just kiddin' around. I don't do drugs.
Curtis: That's right, Ms. Kim. Jimmy doesn't mess with drugs.
Ms. Kim: I'm not so sure. Some of your other teachers have told me that your
grades have dropped a lot since school started, Jimmy. Aren't you failing math and
English?
Jimmy: Well, I'm not doing real good in school right now, but it's not because of
drugs. You gotta believe me, Ms. Kim
Ms. Kim: Well, you two go on to your next class. I'll talk to you about this later.
When Ms. Kim discussed Jimmy's grades in front of Curtis, her actions were
A. Inappropriate, because the suspect - correct-answer -B
Which of the following strategies would be best for developing a fourth-grade
student's reading fluency?
A. Encourage the student to reread books written at the student's independent
reading level.
B. Encourage the student to memorize common phonics rules to improve
decoding skills.
