MEGA TEST REVIEW

MEGA TEST REVIEW A principal recently led a comprehensive process for developing a new school vision, along with related goals and plans for achieving the vision. The principal is pleased to see a high level of enthus ...

MEGA TEST REVIEW A principal recently led a comprehensive process for developing a new school vision, along with related goals and plans for achieving the vision. The principal is pleased to see a high level of enthusiasm among teachers and other stakeholders for supporting the school's new improvement efforts. Which actions would best help ensure that the new vision remains a dynamic force in guiding school activity and promoting stakeholder energy and commitment over time? - ✔✔Using collaborative procedures to create new vision-aligned goals and plans each year that reflect the successes and challenges of the recent past. A high school principal encourages teachers to use the school's educational vision as a guide when making decisions about teaching and learning in their classrooms. This approach is likely to be most effective in promoting student learning if the vision is: - ✔✔Grounded in research- and evidence-based pedagogy A high school's recently developed educational vision includes a focus on promoting all students academic success. In implementing the vision, which of the following tasks should be the principal's most important priority? - ✔✔Provided teachers with time and resources to engage in regular collaborative analysis of student performance data The members of the school site council are reviewing a long list of school needs identified by teachers, staff, students, parents/guardians, and other stakeholders. The principal is seeking the site council input regarding which needs should be considered priorities for the school to address. The principal can best facilitate this process by guiding the council members to consider which of the following issues first? - ✔✔The significance of each identified need in terms of achieving the schools defined vision Every year a school administers surveys designed to elicit information about teacher and student perceptions regarding various aspects of the school. The school principal can best use data derived from these sources to reflect on which of the following questions? - ✔✔What areas that are addressed in the surveys appear to be most in need of change? A principal has led stakeholders in developing a new school vision. Representatives from all stakeholder groups participated in discussions and workgroups and reached a consensus on a vision that they believe represents the values and priorities of the community. Feedback from the school community was incorporated into the final version of the vision. Which of the following outcomes is the most important benefit of using this approach to develop a school vision? - ✔✔Helping promote shared commitment to and ownership of the school's vision A secondary school principal has been informed by district leaders that her most important goal for the coming year must be to oversee improvements in student performance in English and mathematics. The principal is likely to make the greatest progress towards achieving this goal if she gives the highest priority to implementing strategies that - ✔✔Allow her to maintain a strong daily and long-term focus on high leverage instructional leadership activities Which of the following actions by a principal would best help ensure that teachers view the schools educational vision as a central component in school decision-making? - ✔✔Framing teachers discussions and debates about potential program changes or new school initiatives in the context of the vision A middle schools educational vision includes a goal of ensuring that students are college and career ready. The principal can best lead efforts to achieve this goal by first - ✔✔Collaborating with stakeholders to define specific, concrete objectives for promoting students college and career readiness A midyear assessment of an elementary school's progress toward achieving its goal of increasing students reading proficiency reveals that the plan that is being implemented to achieve this goal has not yet yielded hope for improvement. Which of the following approaches is the principal's best initial course of action in this situation? - ✔✔Leading teachers in analyzing data on the effectiveness of strategies that are currently being implemented to increase students reading proficiency and modifying the plan accordingly Under the leadership of a new principle, stakeholders in a low performing school have defined a set of challenging improvement goals for students math and reading performance on interim and end of year standardized assessments. After the goals were established, the principal arranged to have a large, colorful chart placed near the building entrance to graphically display changes in student performance in math and reading overtime the most important benefit of the chart is most likely to be - ✔✔To communicate to the entire school community that increased student achievement is a high priority for the school. In a school with a highly diverse student population, the principal learns that fewer than 10% of the students enrolled in the gifted and talented program reflect the schools cultural and language diversity. The principal can best initiate efforts to remedy this underrepresentation by seeking information from the schools gifted and talented program coordinator about the - ✔✔Methods and criteria used to identify potential program participants A few years ago, in middle school began receiving grant funds for an afterschool tutoring and academic assistance program that could accommodate up to 40 students per day. Although the primary purpose of the program is to help close the achievement gaps, all students are welcome to attend. Each year since the program was established, the number of students participating has gradually declined, and now an average of only 10 to 15 students show up each day. In responding to this situation the new principal of the school could best shows leadership by taking which of the following actions first? - ✔✔Working with the program coordinator to collect and analyze information on why more students do not take advantage of the program and what would be needed to motivate greater student participation A principal who is assigned to lead a middle school with widespread student discipline problems wants to establish a school environment that emphasizes appropriate conduct and safety for all students. Which of the following actions by the principal would best serve to initiate this process? - ✔✔Helping school stakeholders, including student representatives, build consensus on foundational beliefs and expectations regarding school behavior A principal is pleased to find that the majority of teachers in her new school are high performing professionals who share the schools vision of success for all students. Which of the following steps taken by