Mercedes Flashcards

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Which of the following teacher actions would best support middle school students as they each explore their own identity?

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Providing a variety of learning experiences to give students an opportunity to determine their strengths

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An elementary teacher uses a full inclusion model in which students with disabilities are fully integrated into the regular/general education classroom. Compared with traditional approaches to educating students with special needs, which of the following is most likely to be an important advantage of the model?

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all students will have increased opportunities to develop an understanding and acceptance of diversity through increased interactions with one another

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Which of the following is the primary purpose of activating students’ prior knowledge before they need a text?

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Increasing student’s comprehension level

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Teachers in a high school are aware of a local gang problem and with to influence the students in their school to reject gang membership. The teacher can best facilitate achievement of this goal by emphasizing which of the following approaches?

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Leading a discussion into their own classrooms aimed at examining eh various causes of individuals’ decisions to join a gang

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A 4th grade teacher is planning a unit on weather. Students will record temperature, daily weather conditions etc. Using data recorded in the charts the students will create web-based broadcasts of the weather. To complete the project, the teacher will divide the class into groups.

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Forecast team who analyze and compiles students’ predictions

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Which of the following types of assessment does the broadcast best illustrate

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performance based

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To best help students create transition in the broadcasting of the weather report, the teacher should demonstrate how to use which of the following graphic organizers?

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storyboard

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The end of unit broadcast primarily incorporates which of the following elements in learning?

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multiple intelligence

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Which of the following does not contribute to developing pro social behaviors in early elementary students?

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independent play

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Which of the following is an instructional objective?

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students will use fractions to describe the results of an experiment

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An 8th grade team plans a thematic unit in which students learn about the concept of courage in all their subject areas. A primary advantage of implementing thematic instruction is to promote students _____________

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connections with the content in multiple areas

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To best demonstrate for elementary students the appropriate note taking skills to use during research a teacher should model which of the following?

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using graphic organizers to record information

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When creating a daily schedule for a kindergarten class, it is most important for the teacher to consider

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whether the time allotted for each instructional activity allows students to complete each task

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An eleventh-grade teacher with a class learner of diverse ability, including English language learners (ELLs), is planning a group project to investigate the causes of the World War. which of the following represents the grouping method that will be most effective in supporting the majority?

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grouping students heterogeneously by ability

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When two elementary school students are having a disagreement, the primary goal of the teacher should be to

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encourages both students to discuss the situation and resolve it in a mutually agreeable manner

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A 2nd grade teacher is preparing for a new school year. Which of the following would be the most effective way for the teacher to establish expectations student’s behavior in the classroom?

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Involving the students in the process of creating the rules

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Each week students compose, send and respond to emails pal from different communities. Which of the following is the most important benefit of the project?

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enriching students understanding of different cultures

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A middle school science teacher requires students to keep a learning log to record their observation, identify concerns and summarize learning. The primary benefit of this practice is that it

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encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning

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A 9th grade world geography teacher is planning a unit on how geographic processes affect political situation in different areas of the world. to begin designing appropriate learning goals for the unit, the teacher should first, ______________

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consults the statewide students’ objectives for world geography

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Mr. Trang has his mathematics students keep a learning log. At the end of each class period, students are asked to record three sentences that paraphrase what they learned from the day’s lesson. This strategy is beneficial for students learning primarily because it asks them to

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elaborate on new ideas

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Before beginning a science unit, a teacher has the students record the unit objective in their science journals. During the unit, students make daily journal entries recording what they have learned. At the end of the unit, the students revisit the journal entries and discuss how well they feel they have learned. At the end of the unit, the students revisit the journal entries and discuss how well they feel they have mastered each objective. The activity best exemplifies which of the following instructional goal?

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encouraging student self-assessment

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A teacher introduces students to an interactive web site. Before having students explore the site it is most important that the teacher first emphasize which of the following in the acceptable use policy?

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net etiquette

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The following is a dialogue between a fourth-grade student and her teacher regarding an assignment to write about a favorite memory.

Student: I don’t know what to write about. I don’t have a favorite memory.

Teacher: Hmm. Ok. if you don’t have a favorite memory, you can write about a day you would like to have in the future. Tell me what your idea of a good day would look like.

In order to help the student begin writing, which of the following instructional strategies did the teacher say?

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reframing the assignment

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A teacher is creating an introduction to a content-based unit presentation software. Which of the following guidelines should the teacher adopt when designing each slide?

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explaining each point fully

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A middle school teacher integrates internet research skills into a project. Which of the following teacher actions best addresses the needs of students who have limited experience with technology?

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offering specific strategies on how to use the internet

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An economics teacher plans to assess a class understanding of unit content by having students complete a performance assessment that is based on case study. The case study describes problems facing a company and students will be asked to prepare a report that analyzes the company’s situation and proposes short- and long-term solutions. The teacher can best help ensure that the assessment will yield fair and accurate results by taking which of the following steps before students begin their work?

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giving students information about the specific criteria and standards that will be used to evaluate their performance

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A teacher reviews a list of discussion guidelines before students begin discussing a topic in small groups. The list includes guidelines such as “Be respectful of others’ opinions” and “don’t speak out of turn”. Practice best fosters which of the following for the students?

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safe environment for expression

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The teachers at a middle school are concerned about many students’ failure to complete their homework assignments. During the school’s first round of parent teacher conferences, the teachers learn from some parents/guardians that their children often tell the adults in their homes that they have no homework to do. In response, the teachers decided to create a homework help line that the students and their families can use to obtain information about homework assignments for each class. Which of the following is likely to be the most significant benefit of this strategy?

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Strengthens family’s ability to be partners with school personnel in their children’s education

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When planning conferences with families a teacher can best demonstrate the value of parent-teacher interaction through which of the following strategies?

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rescheduling conference times to accommodate families’ schedules

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Mr. Dunn’s discipline plan for his 4th grade classroom includes calling the parents if a student breaks the rules three times in one day. Mr. Dunn often finds that warning a student that a parent will be called will serve to change the student’s behavior. Which of the following analyzes best describes the major problem with this discipline method?

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Characteristics communication between parents and teachers as something students should fear

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Which of the following is the most effective method a teacher assesses students’ use of higher order thinking skills as they complete a group project?

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observing the intellectual behaviors students exhibit

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Under which of the following conditions can a teacher make multiple copies of an article for students prior to a class discussion without requesting copyright permission?

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the article is less than 2,500 words and includes notice of copyright

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Before assigning new reading material to her class, Ms. Weiss, a middle school reading teacher preteaches vocabulary. Some of the students in the class are ELL learners. Ms. Weiss instructs the students to scan the text to identify unfamiliar words. Once the student identifies unfamiliar words, she provides a brief definition of each word as it used in the context of the new material. A primary reason this method of vocabulary instruction is effective for the ELL is that

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new vocabulary words are presented in a less structured context

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Ms. Murphy is concerned about a student’s recent academic and behavioral performance. Mrs. Murphy can best prepare for a productive conference with the parents by

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Gathering the students various work samples and anecdotal records of the student’s behavior

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A kindergarten teacher notices that the same group of students regularly argue over materials at the art center. To most effectively help these students learn to resolve their differences, the teacher should

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have a class meeting to model various ways to solving differences in class

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A class of HS students prepare to complete an independent research paper; the teacher provides an explanation of plagiarism and demonstrates proper ways to paraphrase material and cite source information. By doing so, the teacher is primarily promoting

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student’s accountability for their own learning

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Which of the following student’s activities is the most authentic assessment of students’ knowledge after a unit on Chemistry?

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designing an experiment that could create a chemical reaction

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6th grade students choose one threat from a list of environmental threats to research and present to the class. Which questions by the teacher reach the highest level of Bloom’s Taxonomy?

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What is the relevance of this threat to your community?

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When introducing an author study to students a 5th grade teacher shares information about and has students’ authors writing. The students then work in pairs to discuss their reactions to the excerpt. The primary benefit of this is to

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provide support for student interactions

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What nonverbal behavior shows a teacher is engaged in what a student is saying?

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leaning forward and looking at the student and nodding when appropriate

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A teacher frequently checks for understanding throughout instruction. A primary purpose is

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increase student accountability

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A high school biology teacher begins a lesson on mitosis by asking the class “What do you think when you hear the word?” What is the primary purpose of this question?

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Activating prior knowledge

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A 6th grade language arts teacher is planning a unit on Greek Mythology and creates the following timeline and planning questions. Propose unit timeline

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How do I ensure that students are on task during the group work?

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Which of the following teacher actions is most appropriate for addressing the third unit planning questions?

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Requiring students to research various aspects of ancient Greece and share them in small groups

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Which of the following is the primary purpose for performing the tasks scheduled for the first day of the unit? Teacher talks about the TEKS, materials the student may need, teacher told parents about the project

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Providing time for students to connect prior knowledge of myths with the unit

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Which of the following describes the best way for the teacher to address the first unit planning question? How do I keep all students’ tasks?

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Giving the students a focus by assigning each student to a specific role within the group

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A teacher asks students to work in groups of four to create a model of a concept being studied. one group struggles. which of the following strategies will best assist the group in meeting project timelines?

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ensuring that group interactions are basted on mutual respect

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