TEXAS TEACHERS ASSESSMENT 2 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED ALREADY PASSED
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why?
By providing opportunities for children to experience success in their learning through
the use of appropriately challenging work.
What is the main idea of self-actualization?
When individuals reach a state of harmony and understanding.
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory?
This theory is based on how there are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a
person's intelligence.
Which learning strategies show your understanding of adolescent brain
development?
Cooperative learning groups, storytelling, and Chunking
How would you justify proximity to the teacher as a method for maintaining
classroom order?
Teachers need to move around the classroom and keep little distance between
themselves and the students for management.
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The
teacher asking students to create a graphic organizer of their lesson.
Spatial Intelligence, because graphic organizers allow students to learn from a visual
image.
Which statement supports chunking an assignment for students?
Chunking allows learners to take in information in digestible pieces.
Explain how the zone of proximal development applies to adolescent learning.
Adolescents are developmentally idealistic and this interferes with one's ability to be
realistic.
What information would you use to support the use of feedback in the
classroom?
, Students need immediate, specific, and habitual feedback to continue learning based on
previous efforts.
What approach would you use to best help students retain information they have
learned?
Teach a peer as a technique for retention.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students?
Allows students to believe that they are capable of completing a task.
Which is not an example of an element you could change in the classroom to
incorporate the naturalist intelligence?
Turning the lights off and working in the dark.
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a
high school language arts classroom?
Adolescents have increased emotional responses and allowing them to use emotion
helps them to remember things.
How would you use your knowledge of Erikson's stage of identity vs. role in a
high school classroom?
Allowing students multiple opportunities to try many different things.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into
class?
Engaging students in cooperative learning groups.
Why do you think the teacher needs to focus on the climate of the classroom?
Teachers are responsible for setting a tone in the classroom that increases student
effort.
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs?
Esteem Needs
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent
education?
Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to
what they understand.
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED ALREADY PASSED
What approach would you use to motivate your students and why?
By providing opportunities for children to experience success in their learning through
the use of appropriately challenging work.
What is the main idea of self-actualization?
When individuals reach a state of harmony and understanding.
How would you summarize the multiple intelligences theory?
This theory is based on how there are 8 areas of intelligence that can describe a
person's intelligence.
Which learning strategies show your understanding of adolescent brain
development?
Cooperative learning groups, storytelling, and Chunking
How would you justify proximity to the teacher as a method for maintaining
classroom order?
Teachers need to move around the classroom and keep little distance between
themselves and the students for management.
Which intelligence category would you categorize the following activity? The
teacher asking students to create a graphic organizer of their lesson.
Spatial Intelligence, because graphic organizers allow students to learn from a visual
image.
Which statement supports chunking an assignment for students?
Chunking allows learners to take in information in digestible pieces.
Explain how the zone of proximal development applies to adolescent learning.
Adolescents are developmentally idealistic and this interferes with one's ability to be
realistic.
What information would you use to support the use of feedback in the
classroom?
, Students need immediate, specific, and habitual feedback to continue learning based on
previous efforts.
What approach would you use to best help students retain information they have
learned?
Teach a peer as a technique for retention.
What benefit does intrinsic motivation have on students?
Allows students to believe that they are capable of completing a task.
Which is not an example of an element you could change in the classroom to
incorporate the naturalist intelligence?
Turning the lights off and working in the dark.
How would you justify the need for using storytelling or acting something out in a
high school language arts classroom?
Adolescents have increased emotional responses and allowing them to use emotion
helps them to remember things.
How would you use your knowledge of Erikson's stage of identity vs. role in a
high school classroom?
Allowing students multiple opportunities to try many different things.
Which is an example of incorporating the interpersonal social intelligence into
class?
Engaging students in cooperative learning groups.
Why do you think the teacher needs to focus on the climate of the classroom?
Teachers are responsible for setting a tone in the classroom that increases student
effort.
How would you classify having a star student of the week on Maslow's Hierarchy
of Needs?
Esteem Needs
How can you show your understanding of multiple intelligences in adolescent
education?
Guiding students to determine their own intelligence type and aligning the learning to
what they understand.
