FTCE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION UPDATED EXAMS
SCRIPT ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When teaching idioms it is important to - ✔✔Explicitly teach the implied meaning of
the phrase.
✔✔A teacher wants to know if he is allowed to copy software onto more of his
classroom computers. To find this out he should consult the - ✔✔site license
✔✔A student comes to school and says that her report is done but she is out of ink on
her home printer. She asks the teacher if she can email the assignment to school and
have the teacher print it out. The teacher should - ✔✔be cautious because emails can
contain viruses.
✔✔Prior to teaching a unit on bacteria and viruses, a teacher has students evaluate a
list of content-area statements as being true or false. After the lesson is complete, the
students reevaluate the statements. What was the purpose of giving the assignment
before the lesson if it was also to be complete afterwards? - ✔✔The teacher using an
anticipation chart to increase student interest and focus the instruction.
✔✔A culturally responsive teacher should be aware of students' - ✔✔social skills, home
culture, interests & attitudes.
,✔✔A teacher gets a ticket for running a red light in a school zone. According to the
Code of Ethics, the teacher should - ✔✔Do nothing. This was a minor traffic violation.
✔✔A convergent question - ✔✔has a simple, short answer and requires the use of
lower-order thinking skills.
✔✔Shared classroom materials should be - ✔✔easily accessed, assembled prior to
beginning the lesson, and safe for student use.
✔✔Drill and practice is primarily used to - ✔✔re-teach a skill that a student has failed to
master.
✔✔A teacher is arrested for domestic violence, but does not report the incident because
it was unfounded. The teacher - ✔✔will be terminated as soon as the State of Florida
learns of the offense.
✔✔A teacher notices that a student has lost her appetite and has difficulty walking or
sitting. She also seems to be behaving in a sexually sophisticated manner. The teacher
should - ✔✔immediately contact the Florida Abuse Hotline (DCF).
✔✔Teachers that meet regularly to reflect on instructional methods are members of -
✔✔a reflective learning community.
✔✔When planning a unit, a teacher must ensure that the lessons - ✔✔activate prior
knowledge and ensure coherence throughout the unit.
✔✔Who is responsible for implementing the school improvement plan? - ✔✔The
principal and staff
✔✔A teacher's professional development goals should be - ✔✔relevant, measurable,
and based on student needs.
✔✔Which of the following professional development classes would be most beneficial to
a teacher wanting to focus on general instructional practices? - ✔✔Action Research-
How to Do It
✔✔What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic response from a student?
- ✔✔Constructed response
✔✔An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her
students to categorize items like a scientist while appealing to students with a
naturalistic intelligence. Which plan would best meet her objective? - ✔✔Plan an
, outdoor trip and have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based on
their categories.
✔✔Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to - ✔✔Meet with other
educators to discuss and study more effective instructional practices.
✔✔A high-school English teacher reviewed data from a benchmark review and
determined that the results showed that the students had not mastered a key concept.
The teacher feels that she could improve her instructional practices and is looking for a
scientifically-based approach to improve her teaching methods. How should she do
this? - ✔✔Attend a learning community meeting to discuss her instructional practices
with other teachers with the same goal.
✔✔A first-grade teacher has students change the beginning letters of words to make
new words (b-at, c-at, v-at), then has them switch the ending sounds on words (c-at, c-
ar, c-ake). The teacher is having the students manipulate - ✔✔onset-rimes
✔✔What would be the best way for a teacher to prepare her students for the state
mandatory criterion-referenced test that is administered every year? - ✔✔Make sure
that the students have been taught the standards and are familiar with the test format.
✔✔A 6th grade history classroom is set up with desks facing each other in clusters of
students mixed gender, ability, and cultures. Students are working on document-based
questioning about Valley Forge. The teacher moves throughout the classroom, ready to
offer guidance if necessary. What type of activity is the class performing? - ✔✔A
student-centered learning activity
✔✔The initial stages of language acquisition are: - ✔✔pre-production, early production,
speech emergent, intermediate fluency.
✔✔If a teacher does not want guessing to have a positive effect on test scores, she
should avoid - ✔✔true and false questions.
✔✔The purpose of asking a divergent question is to - ✔✔promote critical thinking
✔✔In order to maintain good classroom management, a teacher should assist students
in - ✔✔self-monitoring their own behavior.
✔✔If a high school literature teacher wants to assess if her students understand sub-
concepts that fall under a larger theme, she could have students create a - ✔✔concept
map.
✔✔Anecdotal records are - ✔✔useful to compare student development over a period of
time.
SCRIPT ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔When teaching idioms it is important to - ✔✔Explicitly teach the implied meaning of
the phrase.
✔✔A teacher wants to know if he is allowed to copy software onto more of his
classroom computers. To find this out he should consult the - ✔✔site license
✔✔A student comes to school and says that her report is done but she is out of ink on
her home printer. She asks the teacher if she can email the assignment to school and
have the teacher print it out. The teacher should - ✔✔be cautious because emails can
contain viruses.
✔✔Prior to teaching a unit on bacteria and viruses, a teacher has students evaluate a
list of content-area statements as being true or false. After the lesson is complete, the
students reevaluate the statements. What was the purpose of giving the assignment
before the lesson if it was also to be complete afterwards? - ✔✔The teacher using an
anticipation chart to increase student interest and focus the instruction.
✔✔A culturally responsive teacher should be aware of students' - ✔✔social skills, home
culture, interests & attitudes.
,✔✔A teacher gets a ticket for running a red light in a school zone. According to the
Code of Ethics, the teacher should - ✔✔Do nothing. This was a minor traffic violation.
✔✔A convergent question - ✔✔has a simple, short answer and requires the use of
lower-order thinking skills.
✔✔Shared classroom materials should be - ✔✔easily accessed, assembled prior to
beginning the lesson, and safe for student use.
✔✔Drill and practice is primarily used to - ✔✔re-teach a skill that a student has failed to
master.
✔✔A teacher is arrested for domestic violence, but does not report the incident because
it was unfounded. The teacher - ✔✔will be terminated as soon as the State of Florida
learns of the offense.
✔✔A teacher notices that a student has lost her appetite and has difficulty walking or
sitting. She also seems to be behaving in a sexually sophisticated manner. The teacher
should - ✔✔immediately contact the Florida Abuse Hotline (DCF).
✔✔Teachers that meet regularly to reflect on instructional methods are members of -
✔✔a reflective learning community.
✔✔When planning a unit, a teacher must ensure that the lessons - ✔✔activate prior
knowledge and ensure coherence throughout the unit.
✔✔Who is responsible for implementing the school improvement plan? - ✔✔The
principal and staff
✔✔A teacher's professional development goals should be - ✔✔relevant, measurable,
and based on student needs.
✔✔Which of the following professional development classes would be most beneficial to
a teacher wanting to focus on general instructional practices? - ✔✔Action Research-
How to Do It
✔✔What type of question elicits a written, pictorial, or graphic response from a student?
- ✔✔Constructed response
✔✔An intermediate science teacher wants to develop a lesson that would teach her
students to categorize items like a scientist while appealing to students with a
naturalistic intelligence. Which plan would best meet her objective? - ✔✔Plan an
, outdoor trip and have students gather items, then work in groups to sort them based on
their categories.
✔✔Learning communities provide educators an opportunity to - ✔✔Meet with other
educators to discuss and study more effective instructional practices.
✔✔A high-school English teacher reviewed data from a benchmark review and
determined that the results showed that the students had not mastered a key concept.
The teacher feels that she could improve her instructional practices and is looking for a
scientifically-based approach to improve her teaching methods. How should she do
this? - ✔✔Attend a learning community meeting to discuss her instructional practices
with other teachers with the same goal.
✔✔A first-grade teacher has students change the beginning letters of words to make
new words (b-at, c-at, v-at), then has them switch the ending sounds on words (c-at, c-
ar, c-ake). The teacher is having the students manipulate - ✔✔onset-rimes
✔✔What would be the best way for a teacher to prepare her students for the state
mandatory criterion-referenced test that is administered every year? - ✔✔Make sure
that the students have been taught the standards and are familiar with the test format.
✔✔A 6th grade history classroom is set up with desks facing each other in clusters of
students mixed gender, ability, and cultures. Students are working on document-based
questioning about Valley Forge. The teacher moves throughout the classroom, ready to
offer guidance if necessary. What type of activity is the class performing? - ✔✔A
student-centered learning activity
✔✔The initial stages of language acquisition are: - ✔✔pre-production, early production,
speech emergent, intermediate fluency.
✔✔If a teacher does not want guessing to have a positive effect on test scores, she
should avoid - ✔✔true and false questions.
✔✔The purpose of asking a divergent question is to - ✔✔promote critical thinking
✔✔In order to maintain good classroom management, a teacher should assist students
in - ✔✔self-monitoring their own behavior.
✔✔If a high school literature teacher wants to assess if her students understand sub-
concepts that fall under a larger theme, she could have students create a - ✔✔concept
map.
✔✔Anecdotal records are - ✔✔useful to compare student development over a period of
time.
