ABCTE- PTK (Assessment & Writing)
Questions and Answers Graded A
Business Communication ✔✔Use concrete terms instead of abstract terms.
The best you know your audience, the better you can anticipate and incorporate rules on how,
what, and when to use specific words and terms.
Understand the relationship between universal or specific appeal to an audience or context.
Clear and concise communication involves anticipation. Anticipating the language that the reader
is expected to know, unfamiliar terms, enables the writer to communicate.
Promoting understanding and limiting misinterpretations are key goals of an effective
communicator.
Maintains Class Control ✔✔Students rely on teachers to establish and maintain a safe and
orderly learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and allows each student to achieve his
or her maximum potential. The need for student discipline requires the teacher to develop a set of
rules that establish boundaries for behavior and to enforce them in a fair and consistent manner.
Successful teachers prepare for classroom disruption before they begin to occur.
Alongside creating a list, teacher should include consequences as part of the introductory events
that occur during the first week of school.
A well constructed, student-centered lesson plan is the best tactic that a teacher can employ to
avert student discipline situations.
,Classroom Managment ✔✔
Productive Writing ✔✔Know when you are most productive (mornings, afternoons, evenings...)
If you cannot choose your timing, then dedication and perseverance is required.
To be productive:
1. You need to be alert.
2. Ready to work
3. Accomplish task with relative ease.
4. Write everyday
5. Develop an habit of concentrating while you write.
6. Critical thinking self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking
(attention to detail).
7. Have a positive attitude about writing in general.
Reading and writing from an audience-centered view means acknowledging your confirmation
bias and moving beyond it to consider multiple frames of references, points of view, perspectives
as you read, research, and write.
Break down writing in small manageable steps, that in turn, will provide you with a platform for
success.
Your rough draft as a purpose but its not your final product.
Let go of fear of failure.
,Your desire for perfection should come in place when it comes to polishing your finished
product.
To eliminate fear of writing, make the unknown known. If we take out the mystery out of the
product and and process, we can see it for its essential components. We see how our finished
product should look.
Examine successful papers to get a better feel for what you have to produce.
Planning Checklist ✔✔1. Determine your general purpose: are you trying to inform, persuade,
entertain, facilitate interaction, or motivate a reader? (who, what, when, how, and why(optional))
Identifying "why" something happened or why a certain decision is advantageous will be the
essence of the communication.
2. Determine your specific purpose: the desired outcome.
3. Credibility, Timing, and Audience
Which question below is MOST likely to generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? ✔✔A: Why would the author have ended the book this way?
This question allows for both a wide range of answers and discussion of those answers. The
discussion is likely to be interesting because there are so many possible answers to the question.
Why questions tend to be the most open-ended.
, Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class? ✔✔A: To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior.
Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset. The rules should be changed only
when necessary, not casually or according to students demands.
Which of the methods below will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in
cooperative learning groups? ✔✔A: Assign each student in the group a specific role in
accomplishing the objectives of the activity.
If each student has a role in meeting the objectives and the activity is well structured, then all
students will be drawn into participating because they all have something to do.
Grading students' work individually can be appropriate during cooperative learning activities.
Students evaluating each other should be generally avoided.
When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount of information
in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of MOST use to a typical parent?
✔✔A: Parents will generally benefit most rom specific information about how to help their
children succeed. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize working to
improve them. Parents may want to know how their child had done in comparison to other
students locally and nationally, but the information does not help their child improve.
Knowledge: Recall and remember information ✔✔Defines
Describes
Questions and Answers Graded A
Business Communication ✔✔Use concrete terms instead of abstract terms.
The best you know your audience, the better you can anticipate and incorporate rules on how,
what, and when to use specific words and terms.
Understand the relationship between universal or specific appeal to an audience or context.
Clear and concise communication involves anticipation. Anticipating the language that the reader
is expected to know, unfamiliar terms, enables the writer to communicate.
Promoting understanding and limiting misinterpretations are key goals of an effective
communicator.
Maintains Class Control ✔✔Students rely on teachers to establish and maintain a safe and
orderly learning environment that is welcoming, inclusive, and allows each student to achieve his
or her maximum potential. The need for student discipline requires the teacher to develop a set of
rules that establish boundaries for behavior and to enforce them in a fair and consistent manner.
Successful teachers prepare for classroom disruption before they begin to occur.
Alongside creating a list, teacher should include consequences as part of the introductory events
that occur during the first week of school.
A well constructed, student-centered lesson plan is the best tactic that a teacher can employ to
avert student discipline situations.
,Classroom Managment ✔✔
Productive Writing ✔✔Know when you are most productive (mornings, afternoons, evenings...)
If you cannot choose your timing, then dedication and perseverance is required.
To be productive:
1. You need to be alert.
2. Ready to work
3. Accomplish task with relative ease.
4. Write everyday
5. Develop an habit of concentrating while you write.
6. Critical thinking self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking
(attention to detail).
7. Have a positive attitude about writing in general.
Reading and writing from an audience-centered view means acknowledging your confirmation
bias and moving beyond it to consider multiple frames of references, points of view, perspectives
as you read, research, and write.
Break down writing in small manageable steps, that in turn, will provide you with a platform for
success.
Your rough draft as a purpose but its not your final product.
Let go of fear of failure.
,Your desire for perfection should come in place when it comes to polishing your finished
product.
To eliminate fear of writing, make the unknown known. If we take out the mystery out of the
product and and process, we can see it for its essential components. We see how our finished
product should look.
Examine successful papers to get a better feel for what you have to produce.
Planning Checklist ✔✔1. Determine your general purpose: are you trying to inform, persuade,
entertain, facilitate interaction, or motivate a reader? (who, what, when, how, and why(optional))
Identifying "why" something happened or why a certain decision is advantageous will be the
essence of the communication.
2. Determine your specific purpose: the desired outcome.
3. Credibility, Timing, and Audience
Which question below is MOST likely to generate the widest range of answers and discussions
among students? ✔✔A: Why would the author have ended the book this way?
This question allows for both a wide range of answers and discussion of those answers. The
discussion is likely to be interesting because there are so many possible answers to the question.
Why questions tend to be the most open-ended.
, Why should a teacher always spend time explaining classroom rules during the first few days of
class? ✔✔A: To establish clear expectations for performance and behavior.
Students benefit from clear, firm guidelines from the outset. The rules should be changed only
when necessary, not casually or according to students demands.
Which of the methods below will BEST hold students accountable for their full participation in
cooperative learning groups? ✔✔A: Assign each student in the group a specific role in
accomplishing the objectives of the activity.
If each student has a role in meeting the objectives and the activity is well structured, then all
students will be drawn into participating because they all have something to do.
Grading students' work individually can be appropriate during cooperative learning activities.
Students evaluating each other should be generally avoided.
When teachers share standardized test results with parents, there is a large amount of information
in the score report to be discussed. Which information will be of MOST use to a typical parent?
✔✔A: Parents will generally benefit most rom specific information about how to help their
children succeed. When parents know their child's weaknesses, they can emphasize working to
improve them. Parents may want to know how their child had done in comparison to other
students locally and nationally, but the information does not help their child improve.
Knowledge: Recall and remember information ✔✔Defines
Describes
