FTCE ESE Exam 2026 |
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, Which of the following skills would be most appropriate making purchases using bills and coins
to practice with high school students with intellectual
disabilities using mock scenarios? Making purchases using bills and coins is an independent living skill that can be
practiced in both mock scenarios and real life scenarios on community-based
trips. They will also need to have this skill once they transition out of school.
In a unit on personal finance, a sixth-grade teacher wants categorizing the expenses of a local restaurant into expenses that depend on the
students to be able to identify the difference between number of customers and expenses that do no not depend on the number of
fixed and variable costs. Which of the following examples customers
would best highlight this difference?
This will help students highlight the differences between variable and fixed costs
because the student is actively having to categorize an expense into one of the
two categories.
A third-grade general education student, James, has been autism
displaying limitations with social interactions for several
years. James enjoys playing games with much younger James' behavior is characteristic of a student with autism due to impairment with
children, but he struggles to be included with his peers social interactions and pragmatic language.
during classroom activities and recess. John has difficulty
interpreting body language and pragmatic language
such as puns, idioms, and sarcasm. Recently, he has been
sent to the school counselor's office for making
inappropriate comments during class. He has started
complaining that he doesn't want to go to school,
although he is typically a student who earns As and Bs.
Which of the following disability categories may be
indicated by James' behavior?
An elementary student who is blind is participating in a Provide the student with a 3D skeleton on which he can locate and label 20
unit in his science class that focuses on learning the bones.
names and locations of 20 bones in the human body. At
the end of the unit, students are required to label all 20 Using a tactile model of a skeleton allows the student to learn and identify bones
bones on a picture of a skeleton. What would be the in the body using touch.
most appropriate way to assess the student's mastery of
this objective?
A kindergarten student with autism has an IEP goal to Meet with the IEP committee to discuss ways to teach this skill.
independently complete the steps associated with
washing and drying hands after using the restroom. The The IEP committee should discuss ways to support the student and consider
student has been working on this goal for eight weeks, whether there are strategies that related service providers can use to incorporate
but he has not made any progress toward initiating or this goal into their therapy sessions.
completing the steps without partial physical prompts.
The student is beginning to express frustration when the
teacher intervenes. Which of the following is an
appropriate next step for the teacher to take?
According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education The student demonstrates limited or lack of progress despite receiving research-
Act (IDEA), which of the following criteria may indicate based interventions.
that a student may have a specific learning disability?
Many states use the response to intervention (RTI) process as a consideration in
whether a student may have a specific learning disability. A student who fails to
progress even after receiving interventions may have a specific learning disability.
Exceptional Student
Education Study Guide &
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Updated 2026 Questions and Answers
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, Which of the following skills would be most appropriate making purchases using bills and coins
to practice with high school students with intellectual
disabilities using mock scenarios? Making purchases using bills and coins is an independent living skill that can be
practiced in both mock scenarios and real life scenarios on community-based
trips. They will also need to have this skill once they transition out of school.
In a unit on personal finance, a sixth-grade teacher wants categorizing the expenses of a local restaurant into expenses that depend on the
students to be able to identify the difference between number of customers and expenses that do no not depend on the number of
fixed and variable costs. Which of the following examples customers
would best highlight this difference?
This will help students highlight the differences between variable and fixed costs
because the student is actively having to categorize an expense into one of the
two categories.
A third-grade general education student, James, has been autism
displaying limitations with social interactions for several
years. James enjoys playing games with much younger James' behavior is characteristic of a student with autism due to impairment with
children, but he struggles to be included with his peers social interactions and pragmatic language.
during classroom activities and recess. John has difficulty
interpreting body language and pragmatic language
such as puns, idioms, and sarcasm. Recently, he has been
sent to the school counselor's office for making
inappropriate comments during class. He has started
complaining that he doesn't want to go to school,
although he is typically a student who earns As and Bs.
Which of the following disability categories may be
indicated by James' behavior?
An elementary student who is blind is participating in a Provide the student with a 3D skeleton on which he can locate and label 20
unit in his science class that focuses on learning the bones.
names and locations of 20 bones in the human body. At
the end of the unit, students are required to label all 20 Using a tactile model of a skeleton allows the student to learn and identify bones
bones on a picture of a skeleton. What would be the in the body using touch.
most appropriate way to assess the student's mastery of
this objective?
A kindergarten student with autism has an IEP goal to Meet with the IEP committee to discuss ways to teach this skill.
independently complete the steps associated with
washing and drying hands after using the restroom. The The IEP committee should discuss ways to support the student and consider
student has been working on this goal for eight weeks, whether there are strategies that related service providers can use to incorporate
but he has not made any progress toward initiating or this goal into their therapy sessions.
completing the steps without partial physical prompts.
The student is beginning to express frustration when the
teacher intervenes. Which of the following is an
appropriate next step for the teacher to take?
According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education The student demonstrates limited or lack of progress despite receiving research-
Act (IDEA), which of the following criteria may indicate based interventions.
that a student may have a specific learning disability?
Many states use the response to intervention (RTI) process as a consideration in
whether a student may have a specific learning disability. A student who fails to
progress even after receiving interventions may have a specific learning disability.
