PPR 190 practice question (taken from TEXES PPR study guide) Already Passed

PPR 190 practice question (taken from TEXES PPR study guide) Already Passed 1. Mr. Drake is a first grade teacher who is using the whole language approach when teaching about animals. Before reading a story and what ...

PPR 190 practice question (taken from TEXES PPR study guide) Already Passed 1. Mr. Drake is a first grade teacher who is using the whole language approach when teaching about animals. Before reading a story and what they are expected to learn. What's the reason for doing this? ✔✔He's modeling a pre-reading skill in order to teach it to the young readers. Comprehension is demonstrated when the reader questions his or her intent for reading. Comprehension increases when students become aware of the focus and expectation for the activity. It also teaches students that we read for different purposes. 2. Mr. Drake's class has an extensive discussion on the needs of house pets. In response to a student who says that her family abandoned their cat in a field because it ate to much. Mr. Drake asks, "What is one way to save pets that are no longer wanted?' This exercise involves what level of questioning? ✔✔Evaluation. A question testing whether or not student can synthesize information will require students to generalize from given facts, draw conclusions, and use old ideas to create new ones. Students will use the information discussed in class to generate suggestions to save unwanted pets. 3. Mr. Drake has students who read at different levels. He has the students in groups of two, (one skilled and one remedial reader) reading selected stories to one another. The students read the story and question each other until they feel that they both understand the story. By planning the lesson this way, Mr. Drake has ✔✔utilized the students strengths and weaknesses to maximize time, materials, and overall quality of the learning environment. The remedial reader receives instruction and the skilled reader receives reinforcement. The peer support system one of the main principles for cooperative learning. It uses alternate teaching resources, the student themselves enhance the learning environment. 4. Mr Drake is continuing his lesson on the animal kingdom. He wants to ensure that the students learn as much as they can about animals. so he incorporates information they are familiar with into new information. Knowing that these are first grade learners, what should he incorporate when planning their learning experience? ✔✔Students will overestimate how much information that they can retrieve from memory. Students at this age do not have cognitive skills required to realize how much they have actually learned, or how much they will actually be able to retain. 5. Before reading a story about a veterinary hospital, Mr. Drake constructs a semantic map of related word and terms using the students input. What is the main intention for doing this? ✔✔To demonstrate a meaningful relationship between concepts of the story and prior knowledge of the students. By mapping out previous knowledge, information already known can be transferred to support new information. 6. Vocabulary development is a key predictor of success in reading. Identify strategies that parents can use to promote vocabulary development in a fun and relaxed environment. ✔✔use flash cards, pictures and concrete objects to introduce vocabulary words. 7. The least effective technique to promote literacy at home is to... ✔✔ask the child to invite friends home and encourage them to read together. It is ineffective because it doesn't involve the parent directly, and the activity can evolve into a social gathering. 8. Interactive/Experimental modeling: ✔✔Model attempts to build students experiences by involving them in activities designed to strengthen their background and guide them to assume greater control of their learning. 9. Identify one key consideration teachers must follow when implementing a classroom management program for kindergarten to second grade students. ✔✔Teach rules and procedures explicitly and practice them until students master them. 10. The first step in organizing an effective classroom management is to understand students and their characteristics. Identify the group described in the following Statement; * Are Compliant, eager to please teachers * Have short attention span, tire easily * Are restless and like to wander around classroom. * might break rules because they forget about them. ✔✔Kindergartener to second grade students. 11. Identify statements that best describe the implementation of the assertive discipline management program. ✔✔Rules are linked to positive and negative consequences; negative consequences are linked to the action, not the child. In Assertive Discipline, students are given a set of specific behaviors and consequences for each behavior. Children are allowed to choose the behavior as long as they accept the consequences. In this system the teacher punishes the behavior, not the child. Rules are prominently displayed and kept to a minimum to make sure students remember them. 12. The key instructional benefit of using games such as, Oregon Trails, and where in the world is carmen san diego is to... ✔✔Teach map skills, and problem solving skills in an enjoyable subconscious manner. 13. A potential draw back of using presentation tools with multiple colors and animation is that ✔✔Children might pay more attention to the delivery system then to the content presented. 14. Identify the productivity tools used to enhance instruction and facilitate administrative duties of classroom teachers. ✔✔word processing, electronic grade book, and databases. 15. The individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA) provides for placement of students in the least restrictive environment through an inclusion model. In this inclusion model, who are the parties responsible for the implementation of the students Individualized Educational Plan (IEP)? ✔✔The Special Education teacher and the mainstream teacher will be responsible for implementing the IEP. In an inclusion environment the mainstream teacher has to obtain a copy of the IEP and deliver it in collaboration with the special ed teacher. The ARD committee in collaboration with the special ed teacher will be involved with the design of the IEP. 16. Older students might benefit more from deductive teaching then younger children because younger children ... ✔✔Might not have the level of cognitive development needed to understand the principle or the generalization presented through this method. 17. Mr. O'Brian is a high school communication teacher. At the end of the school year, he reviews the topics he has taught and assignments he has given. He then uses this review to direct his professional development activities over the summer months by... ✔✔identifying areas not covered, or new topics to study and research during the summer months. 18. Mr. O'Brian discovers that he spends virtually no class time discussing the differences in the ways females and males communicate, although he notes that several best-selling books by academic scholars have been written on this topic. He observed some recurring gender differences among his students he has taught over the years, and he wonders if he should add this timely topic to the list he now teaches. He decides to discuss this possibility with other teachers at his school to... ✔✔Solicit his peers ideas and input on expanding and/or revising the curriculum in communication classes. Mr O'Brian is demonstrating that he is a reflective practitioner who can work cooperatively with others in his school. 19. When Mr. O'Brian brings up the topic of gender differences in styles of communications, he discovers that two of his colleagues have opposite views... Consequently, he decides that the best coarse of action is to ... ✔✔Invite both colleagues to help him develop lessons that would include both view points of the topic. 20. Mr. George is a high school social studies teacher at Arlington High. He believes that motivation is an important component of the learning process. One day, he brings cookies and milk as a focus activity to illustrate the concept of supply and demand of goods and services. students eat the cookies and drink the milk, but find the approach to be awkward... Identify the statement that best describes the type of focus activity used by Mr. George. ✔✔The focus is developmentally inappropriate for the students. The use of milk and cookies as an activity to promote interest in the topic is more appropriate for students in primary grades. 21. Ms. Jaynes is a secondary special ed teacher and reading specialist. Her teaching assignment requires her to provide for special needs of twelve students who are experiencing difficulties in reading. Her first action to establish a relationship with the students is to... ✔✔Meet students individually and informally discuss how they feel about school and reading, is the best way to build a rapport with each student. 22. In selecting a test to administer to students Ms. Jayne needs to be relatively certain that she has selected a test that is not biased. Test bias refers to whether or not... ✔✔The test discriminates among students on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, cultural or socio-economic background, or other ideographic characteristics. 23. Computer-assisted instruction can be classified in the following major categories... ✔✔Problem-solving, drill and practice, simulation, instructional games. 24. Reading teachers have to spend a lot instructional time on pre-reading activities to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Identify the rationale for this emphasis on pre-reading skills... ✔✔Teachers need to assess prior knowledge, present vocabulary words, idiomatic expressions, and any kind of cultural framework needed to provide the child with the schema needed to understand a story. Pre-reading can be used to explore the knowledge that children bring to the reading process and fill the cultural and linguistic gaps needed to facilitate comprehending. 25. Ms. Aljuhbar is an ESL teacher. She works with high school aged students, typically with groups of six to twelve students who possess varying degrees of ability for understanding English. Her primary objective is working with her students is to help them understand the academic English spoken in their classes and to help them communicate more effective in English with their other teachers and classmates. Her secondary objective is to create cultural awareness within her students and expose them to customs of the United States. This objective is an example of... ✔✔Instructional goals.