10 questions
During the discovery and application process students are making discoveries. Which of the following should the teacher be doing?
A. doing a demonstration as instruction
B. coaching and guiding children as needed
C. presenting situations and posing questions
D. maintaining order throughout the classroom
Which of the following instructional strategies would be the most useful for helping the science teacher to identify students' misconceptions?
A. increasing wait time
B. involving students in lab activities
C. engaging students in a think-pair-share activity
D. having students complete a science worksheet
Which of the following sequences is the most appropriate learning progression through the levels of geometric thinking?
A. analytic, abstract, descriptive
B. analytic, descriptive, abstract
C. descriptive, abstract, analytic
D. descriptive, analytic, abstract
A kindergarten class is learning about addition without regrouping. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate to begin teaching students how to add two digits?
A. acting out addition by having students wear different colors
B. telling a story about a funny character who adds numbers
C. letting partners work in groups with leveled practice
D. using realistic examples in a familiar context
Which of the following concepts is recommended to be taught first in the development of fractional understanding for students?
A. comparing sums of unit fractions
B. using set models to show fractions
C. adding fractions of unlike denominators
D. representing fractions with area models
To assess a student's ability to analyze the draining of the Everglades and the development of South Florida, it would be most effective to ask the students to
A. participate in a play about the state's agriculture.
B. prepare a report on early exploration in the area.
C. label a blank political map of the state.
D. write a cause-and-effect essay about the region.
A 2nd-grade teacher is planning a lesson on the Constitution. Of the following, which would be the most appropriate primary source through which to present the lesson?
A. watch a video clip of the Emancipation Proclamation
B. read a complex text about the Boston Tea Party
C. view a replica of the Constitution document
D. sing a song about legal documents
Which materials are best for helping kindergarten students learn how families are alike and how they are differ?
A. books, pictures, and video media
B. encyclopedia, pictures, and interviews
C. art prints, documentaries, and video media
D. songs, books, and slides
What is the most effective method for teaching beginning 1st-grade students, who have had very little experience with print, to read?
A. instruction in language experience
B. instruction in context clues
C. instruction in linguistics
D. instruction in phonics
A classroom teacher working with low-ability students uses the repeated reading strategy for the purpose of
A. improving reading fluency.
B. determining students' reading level.
C. determining word recognition deficits.
D. improving students' interest in reading.