Must be measurable and include action verbs.
Behavioral Objective
is best done by students so that the teacher can assess the effect of the
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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 question-answer 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?
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