FTCE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION FINAL EXAM
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔If a teacher wants to be sure that her students are prepared for the state-
administered standards test at the end of the year, she should - ✔✔plan her instruction
around state standards and benchmarks.
✔✔Well-formed teacher-made tests - ✔✔are designed to assess student
comprehension of specific skills based on state standards.
✔✔If a student repeatedly fails a mastery test, the teacher should - ✔✔revisit
prerequisite skills.
✔✔Which of the following activities would encourage students to use their critical
thinking skills? - ✔✔Problem-based learning activities
✔✔A beginning teacher is assigned a mentor that - ✔✔promotes and supports peer
teacher growth
✔✔A classroom teacher has a visually impaired student in his class. When preparing a
class assessment, the teacher should - ✔✔enlarge one copy of the test for the visually
impaired student.
, ✔✔When testing for mastery, - ✔✔students may retest on a skill until they demonstrate
that they mastered it.
✔✔Teachers can bring rigor to their classrooms by incorporating - ✔✔critical-thinking
assignments
✔✔A high-school teacher responds to a student's solution by asking the class if they
agree or disagree with the answer. The teacher is using - ✔✔a redirect
✔✔Which is more effective for improving fluency, reading aloud or reading silently, and
why? - ✔✔Reading aloud, because students tend to skip words they do not understand
when reading silently rather than making the effort to decode them.
✔✔The most appropriate time to give feedback on an assessment is - ✔✔24 to 48
hours later.
✔✔What is the advantage of analyzing case studies? - ✔✔-They present scenarios that
teachers can study and apply to their own classrooms.
-They allow teachers to anticipate possible situations that may someday occur in their
classrooms and prepare to respond accordingly.
-They provide teachers with the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to actual
problems that have occurred in other classrooms.
✔✔If a teacher asks a complex question and the student gives a brief response, the
teacher can... - ✔✔continue to ask follow-up questions of the same student to elicit a
more thorough answer.
✔✔A 4th grade teacher notices that students bump into each other on the way to the
pencil sharpener. Before changing the layout of the classroom, the teacher should -
✔✔consider traffic flow patterns.
✔✔When would a teacher ask a follow-up question? - ✔✔-When the original answer
was too brief
-When the original answer contained a misconception
-When the teacher is trying to elicit higher-order thinking skills from the student
✔✔A student in the pre-production stage of 2nd language acquisition will -
✔✔participate in a "silent period" where the language is heard but not spoken.
✔✔Which of the following accommodations would be appropriate for any student to use,
regardless of their learning abilities? - ✔✔The use of highlighters to mark text.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔If a teacher wants to be sure that her students are prepared for the state-
administered standards test at the end of the year, she should - ✔✔plan her instruction
around state standards and benchmarks.
✔✔Well-formed teacher-made tests - ✔✔are designed to assess student
comprehension of specific skills based on state standards.
✔✔If a student repeatedly fails a mastery test, the teacher should - ✔✔revisit
prerequisite skills.
✔✔Which of the following activities would encourage students to use their critical
thinking skills? - ✔✔Problem-based learning activities
✔✔A beginning teacher is assigned a mentor that - ✔✔promotes and supports peer
teacher growth
✔✔A classroom teacher has a visually impaired student in his class. When preparing a
class assessment, the teacher should - ✔✔enlarge one copy of the test for the visually
impaired student.
, ✔✔When testing for mastery, - ✔✔students may retest on a skill until they demonstrate
that they mastered it.
✔✔Teachers can bring rigor to their classrooms by incorporating - ✔✔critical-thinking
assignments
✔✔A high-school teacher responds to a student's solution by asking the class if they
agree or disagree with the answer. The teacher is using - ✔✔a redirect
✔✔Which is more effective for improving fluency, reading aloud or reading silently, and
why? - ✔✔Reading aloud, because students tend to skip words they do not understand
when reading silently rather than making the effort to decode them.
✔✔The most appropriate time to give feedback on an assessment is - ✔✔24 to 48
hours later.
✔✔What is the advantage of analyzing case studies? - ✔✔-They present scenarios that
teachers can study and apply to their own classrooms.
-They allow teachers to anticipate possible situations that may someday occur in their
classrooms and prepare to respond accordingly.
-They provide teachers with the opportunity to discuss possible solutions to actual
problems that have occurred in other classrooms.
✔✔If a teacher asks a complex question and the student gives a brief response, the
teacher can... - ✔✔continue to ask follow-up questions of the same student to elicit a
more thorough answer.
✔✔A 4th grade teacher notices that students bump into each other on the way to the
pencil sharpener. Before changing the layout of the classroom, the teacher should -
✔✔consider traffic flow patterns.
✔✔When would a teacher ask a follow-up question? - ✔✔-When the original answer
was too brief
-When the original answer contained a misconception
-When the teacher is trying to elicit higher-order thinking skills from the student
✔✔A student in the pre-production stage of 2nd language acquisition will -
✔✔participate in a "silent period" where the language is heard but not spoken.
✔✔Which of the following accommodations would be appropriate for any student to use,
regardless of their learning abilities? - ✔✔The use of highlighters to mark text.
