ABCTE - PTK Overview

ABCTE - PTK Overview Must be measurable and include action verbs. - ✔✔Behavioral Objective is best done by students so that the teacher can assess the effect of the lesson - ✔✔Closure How should a teacher close a les ...

ABCTE - PTK Overview Must be measurable and include action verbs. - ✔✔Behavioral Objective is best done by students so that the teacher can assess the effect of the lesson - ✔✔Closure How should a teacher close a lesson? - ✔✔Students working in groups What would BEST help students to understand the distributive property of multiplication over addition? - ✔✔Show students that 3(a + b) = (a + b) + (a + b) + (a + b). used to compare and contrast two objects - ✔✔Venn Diagram What should be a teacher's first step in planning a lesson? - ✔✔Determining the objective of the lesson What is the BEST way for teachers to ensure that students know how to use graphic organizers? - ✔✔Describe the proper use of various graphic organizers. More than half of a teacher's students perform poorly on a quiz. What should be the teacher's response? - ✔✔Tell the students the quiz will not count, re-teach the objectives and give students a different quiz. What should a homework assignment look like after a lesson on the executive branch of government? - ✔✔A worksheet with vocabulary words and their definitions The best way for students to visualize a process with multiple steps and options. - ✔✔Flow chart Before elementary students start reading a new book about baby dinosaurs, what activity would BEST assess prior knowledge and stimulate student interest? - ✔✔Show the class drawings of different kinds of dinosaurs and ask them to name and discuss them, if they can. Discuss the answers as a group and ask the question, "What would you do if you found a baby dinosaur?" provides feedback that allows the teacher to monitor and adjust the instruction and is an easy way to evaluate individual student learning. - ✔✔Formative assessment (helps form future instruction) Why would giving a project based assessment be a good idea? - ✔✔It gives a teacher a wider range of possibilities to determine if students have generalized their new knowledge. If every test score in a set is increased by five points, what is the result? - ✔✔The mean will increase by five points, and the standard deviation will stay the same. measures the amount or the percentage of content students know or can perform - ✔✔Criterion-referenced test What sets of verbs should be used to assess how well students have retained a set of basic facts? - ✔✔list, label, match What is the MOST appropriate procedure for monitoring students' progress during independent work time? - ✔✔Look over students' shoulders to check their work, assisting where necessary. a collection of work created over time, so it allows students the ability to show others how much they have learned and progressed - ✔✔Portfolio helps ensure that all students are participating in group work - ✔✔checklist What is the purpose for teaching routines the first week of school? - ✔✔It saves time later In order to improve the classroom conduct of a student who misbehaves, it is MOST effective to be - ✔✔Specific and consistent The students have little choice or control over their level of participation would require more or less guidance from a teacher - ✔✔more A teacher has decided to use a signal to tell students, "Please pay attention to the work now" and "Please check your behavior now because it needs to be corrected." What BEST summarizes the qualities this signal should have? - ✔✔Maintains classroom momentum, nonverbal A middle school student turns in a homework assignment—a worksheet with vocabulary matching and several open-ended questions. When you are grading this student's paper, you notice he has just written the letters in alphabetical order and wrote "I don't know" for his answers to the questions. What approach will BEST help the student with his homework? - ✔✔Determine if the student does not understand the work or simply refuses to complete the assignment and contact his parents to discuss your findings. How can a teacher show that he or she has high expectations for students' learning? - ✔✔Encourage all students to work for improvement. The four major steps to planning a lesson are: task analysis, determining objectives, determining goals, and identifying necessary prerequisite knowledge. In what order should those steps occur? - ✔✔Goals, objectives, task analysis, prerequisite knowledge The most effective group discussion questions - ✔✔are open-ended to allow for students to explore a range of possible correct answers. What would be the MOST effective introduction to a lesson on quadrilaterals? - ✔✔Give students examples and non-examples of a quadrilateral. requires recall and frequently includes information that must be memorized. An example would be to state the definition of a planet. It is the easiest to memorize. - ✔✔Knowledge-based While in science lab, a student who is repeatedly off task and disruptive is pretending to make pancake batter by mixing chemicals together. The appropriate response is to - ✔✔Get the student out of the room under direct supervision of another adult. What technique BEST promotes student comprehension? - ✔✔Dividing major objectives into small learning units, each with objectives and assessment A teacher should use metaphors during a lesson in order to - ✔✔explain new concepts by identifying the similarities they share with known concepts. A reliable test yields _______ results - ✔✔Consistent What teaching plan is the BEST way to begin a mathematics class - ✔✔Begin a simple activity Correctly listing all 50 states of the United States of America and their capitals involves which type of thinking skill? - ✔✔Knowledge What kind of information can be gathered using a formative student assessment? - ✔✔A ranking of students based on learning On a standardized history achievement test, a student scored at +2 standard deviations. From this, the teacher can determine that the student - ✔✔has learned a great deal of history. MOST relevant homework assignment for a lesson on the structure of a rain forest - ✔✔Create a cluster diagram in class labeled "Layers of the rain forest" in the center and with the four rainforest layers as main ideas. Under what circumstance might it be appropriate to ignore a classroom behavior that violates the rules? - ✔✔The student acknowledges and changes the behavior. Which of the following instructional methods MOST effectively conveys information to an entire group of students at once? - ✔✔Lecture What would be the BEST response when a student repeatedly interrupts a questionanswer exercise with inappropriate jokes that distract from the exercise? - ✔✔Tell the student not to speak unless giving an appropriate response and set a consequence for further misbehavior. What should a teacher do when a student gives an incorrect response during a question-and-answer group session? - ✔✔Say, "Let me put it another way," and rephrase the question. The fact that all reptiles are vertebrates is an example of - ✔✔rule relationship a set of data with a low standard deviation - ✔✔is tightly grouped around the mean the first quartile subtracted from the third quartile - ✔✔The interquartile range of a data set How should students involved in a group project be graded? - ✔✔Each group member should be given individual grades based on his or her performance in the group. Which of the following activities, when used to begin a class period, engages students most effectively? - ✔✔Listening to the teacher tell a relevant story or case study. Statements that are meant to address or halt inappropriate classroom behavior should always be - ✔✔delivered promptly. Another word for reliable is - ✔✔constant (are your measurements consistant?) Another word for valid is - ✔✔accurate involves deriving a rule based on examples -