PECT REVIEW
A teacher wants his students to be able to decompose the number 10 into number pairs. What activity can he use?
Use Number cubes to represent the number 10 in various ways
A PreK-4 teacher can best create a culturally inclusive classroom environment for all students by regularly
encouraging students to share information about their cultures with the class.
What is an essential component of a formative assessment?
monitoring and adjusting a teaching strategy during the learning process based on individual student progress
A first-grade teacher uses a language experience approach with beginning-level students who are English language learners. A student dictates a story based on personal experience to the teacher who writes the story verbatim. The teacher then leads the student in various reading and language activities using the dictated text. A primary benefit of this approach is that it helps the student:
make connections between oral and written English.
A teacher utilizes peer tutoring in math where they are paired based on skill levels. They both were able to take turns tutoring one another. what is most likely to be the most important benefit of incorporating this type of peer support into instruction?
Increasing students motivation to learn math content
A kindergarten teacher observes two children playing together. The children are attempting to use blocks and other play materials to build a bridge for their toy cars. The first bridge that they build collapses when they begin to roll the toy cars across it. Which of the following teacher questions would best promote the development of the students' reasoning and problem-solving skills?
Why do you think the bridge fell over? How can you build the bridge
differently?
A third-grade teacher develops an assessment for a particular unit prior to writing up the daily lesson plans for the unit. The most important advantage of this approach is that it helps the teacher:
align daily lessons and activities with the targeted learning outcomes.
A second-grade teacher is reading a story aloud to a class that includes several students who are English language learners. Throughout the reading, the teacher pauses to verify students' comprehension. The teacher encourages all students to
speak and participate in discussions during and after the reading. Which of the following types of feedback from the teacher would provide meaningful English language input to the students who are English language learners during the discussions?
responding to the intent and content of the students' utterances
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody need to improve. What is prosody?
Cadence and expression
Children who demonstrate typical language development most often begin using two-word utterances between the ages of:
18 to 24 months
A fourth-grade teacher uses a variety of techniques, including questioning and journal prompts, to check for students' understanding of content-area instruction.
Which of the following outcomes is likely to be the most important benefit of this strategy?
helping the teacher identify areas where students may need additional
reinforcement
Jessica, a 6 month old baby in the infant room, has been losing weight, is irritable and has been tired and sleepy everyday she is at the center. On top of that, Jessica does not smile or make any type of social response to her caretakers and she is showing indicators that she is delayed in motor development. Lastly, Jessica does not appear to have a bond with anyone that cares for her, even her mother. What is the developmental concern that may be happening with Jessica?
Jessica is showing signs that she is failing to thrive
According to Linnea Ehri's Phases of Word Recognition Development, at which phase would a student rely less on individual letter sounds and more on multi-letter patterns within words?
Consolidated Alphabetic
As second-grade students are learning a new science concept, the teacher helps them acquire knowledge and skills that they could not acquire on their own by using prompts, giving suggestions, providing feedback, and modeling activities. In this situation, which of the following strategies is the teacher primarily using to foster students' cognitive development?
Scaffolding
Using spreadsheet software to maintain students' performance data is likely to provide a teacher with the most support in which of the following areas?
identifying specific gaps in students' learning
One of the most important responsibilities of a teacher is the construction of valid and reliable tests. Which of the following is not one of the basic principles of test construction?
Include only students who have mastered the set of criteria necessary for the test.
Teaching students that concrete objects can be used to represent the real thing indicates that a lesson is using which of the following scientific instructional themes.
Models
PreK-4 teachers have the goal of being culturally competent educators who use an understanding of diversity among young children to plan developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate instruction that meets the needs of all their students. The most important first step for the teachers to take in achieving this goal is to:
examine their own cultures and beliefs and their impact on interactions with students.
A fourth-grade teacher uses a variety of techniques, including questioning and journal prompts, to check for students' understanding of content-area instruction.
Which of the following outcomes is likely to be the most important benefit of this strategy?
help ensure that the language function of the assessment is appropriate for the students' level of English language proficiency.
Mrs. Purpose is using a list of words with her phonemic awareness group. She wants the group to hear the difference in word endings. Which set of words would be most effective for this activity?
Cab, Cat and cap