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Competency 11
Competency 12
Competency 13
100
Q. The Comer Process refers to:
  1. Funds of Knowledge
  2. Taxonomy of Knowledge
  3. Hierarchy of Needs
  4. Parental Involvement
4. Parental Involvement
100
Q. Praxis refers to
  1. the concept where practice is driven by theory and theory is informed by practice
  2. the concept where practice is driven by theory
  3. the concept where theory is informed by practice
  4. the concept where teachers' practices are driven by research and assessment
1. the concept where practice is driven by theory and theory is informed by practice
100
Q. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was enacted to protect children with disabilities from ________________ and to ____________________ disabled individuals in American life including public education.
  1. failing, desegregate
  2. discrimination, fully integrate
  3. discrimination, partially integrate
  4. failing, fully integrate
2. discrimination, fully integrate
200
Q. What type of parental involvement program is more successful in involving parents from low-income families?
  1. Programs offering home visits
  2. Frequent and effective correspondence from school
  3. Programs offering translation services
  4. All of the above
1. Programs offering home visits
200
Q. Field experiences can be thought of as
  1. real life experiences
  2. instructional scaffolds
  3. guided instruction
  4. independent practice
2. instructional scaffolds
200
Q. The most significant exception to a copyright owner’s rights is:
  1. personal use
  2. fair use
  3. public use
  4. educational use
2. fair use
300
Q. Match the statement to the correct goal: Provide information and ideas to families about how to help students at home with homework and other curricular-related activities, decisions, and planning.
  1. Parenting
  2. Communication
  3. Volunteering
  4. Home Learning
4. Home Learning
300
Q. The Texas Commissioner of Education recommends the following to be use to evaluate teacher performance:
  1. Portfolios
  2. Classroom Observations
  3. PDAS
  4. Reflection Sheets
3. PDAS
300
Q. Generally, it is permissible for teachers to make a single copy of a work for scholarly use for class preparation or multiple copies for classroom use of the following:
  1. Consumables such as workbooks
  2. Complete prose works if less than 2500 words
  3. One chart, graph, diagram, or illustration from a book or periodical
  4. 1 & 2
  5. 2 & 3
5. 2 & 3
400
Q. In May, a second grade teacher feels the need to prepare the parents of her students for the following school year. With the increased emphasis on reading success for third graders, she wants to make sure the parents are aware of how they can build a partnership with the third grade teachers and positively impact their student’s success in the next grade. The best strategy to achieve this is:
  1. Hold a meeting for parents to explain the typical developmental growth for third graders.
  2. Hold a meeting for parents and remind them of the ways they provided the students a home environment that fostered school success and ask them to continue this in the third grade.
  3. Arrange a visit to the third grade classrooms to give the teachers an opportunity to meet the parents and the children and to share their expectations of themselves, the students, and parents.
  4. Invite the parents to meet with her so she can share the credentials for the third grade teachers and their test scores to date in order to reassure the parents that their students are going to be taught by capable teachers.
3. Arrange a visit to the third grade classrooms to give the teachers an opportunity to meet the parents and the children and to share their expectations of themselves, the students, and parents.
400
Q. Preservice teachers have minimal knowledge of teaching before they start their teaching careers.
  1. True
  2. False
2. False
400
Q. Select all that apply: The Texas Education Code specifically defines student records to include the following:
  1. Applications for admissions
  2. Reports of behavioral patterns
  3. Sports activities
  4. Academic competitions
  5. 1&2
  6. 2&3
  7. 3&4
5. 1&2
500
Q. Parents of a middle school student named Carlos contact the eighth grade team leader to express their concerns for their son’s grades. They ask for an appointment to discuss appropriate ways to assist Carlos in his school work:
  1. The eighth grade team leader meets with the parents and explains that she has spoken with the other teachers on the team to get suggestions for the parents. They suggest providing a regular quiet place for Carlos to study at home with the expectation for assistance from the parents at home as needed.
  2. The eighth grade team leader meets with the parents and shares some perspectives of the eighth grade tem. They suggest that the parents provide Carlos with a quiet place to study and sit with him to help him with the schoolwork.
  3. The eighth grade team leader meets with the parents and discusses a plan she has devised. She wants the parents to communicate on a weekly basis in writing about Carlos’s study habits.
  4. The eights grade team leader meets with the parents and outlines a plan of action. This includes the teachers communicating at the end of each week so that the parents will know if Carlos has earned a pre-planned reward or punishment.
1. The eighth grade team leader meets with the parents and explains that she has spoken with the other teachers on the team to get suggestions for the parents. They suggest providing a regular quiet place for Carlos to study at home with the expectation for assistance from the parents at home as needed.
500
Q. Ms. Williams, a fifth grade teacher, notes that each year some of her incoming students lack an understanding of how to work cooperatively in groups. She realizes that all of them have had the same fourth grade teacher. What is the best course of action for Ms. Williams?
  1. Share her observations with the building principal and teach cooperative skills early in the school year.
  2. Work with her horizontal and vertical teams to improve students’ academic and social skills without mentioning or ridiculing any teacher.
  3. Omit group work at this time.
  4. Mention to the fourth grade teacher that she has had to spend valuable instructional time on teaching social skills to the fifth graders because most of them do not know how to work effectively in groups.
2. Work with her horizontal and vertical teams to improve students’ academic and social skills without mentioning or ridiculing any teacher.
500
Q. Ms. Smith teaches in a school with a high percentage of students whose families have limited financial resources. She recently identified a consumable workbook that she feels would be excellent for her students. However, the cost of the workbook would be prohibitive for most of her students. The teacher should:
  1. Attempt to secure funding for the workbooks through administrative channels, and if unable to do so, document her efforts and duplicate the workbooks free of charge to students;
  2. Request permission to duplicate the workbook from the copyright holder and if permission is denied, identify alternative materials;
  3. Duplicate the workbook but distribute the duplications to students one page at a time; or
  4. Duplicate the workbook as she deems appropriate as she purchased her copy of the workbook and, therefore, is free to do what she wishes.
2. Request permission to duplicate the workbook from the copyright holder and if permission is denied, identify alternative materials