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Praxis II: PLT K-6 Exam Prep - Question List

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1. Which psychologist suggests using an incentive system, providing individualized help that efficiently supports the learning of each student and using body language to convey behavioral messages as strategies that may decrease off-task behaviors during independent practice times?
  1. Lee Canter
  2. Maria Montessori
  3. Albert Bandura
  4. Fredric Jones
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2. Nitza Hidalgo, an educational theorist, tells us that there are the three levels of culture that can be identified as influential in the way students learn. What are these levels?
  1. Age, Family and Personal
  2. Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Eccentric
  3. Figurative, Literal and Connotative
  4. Concrete, Behavioral and Symbolic
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3. Early theories regarding the phases of moral development were typically male-centered. Which theorist recognized this and proposed the stages of ethical care to address the phases of moral development as they relate to women?
  1. Carol Gilligan
  2. Erik Erikson
  3. Sigmund Freud
  4. Maria Montessori
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4. Carefully constructing a seating chart, establishing daily classroom routines and directly teaching the classroom rules are examples of what?
  1. Providing differentiated instruction to meet the needs of individual students
  2. Preventative measures that could minimize the occurrence of undesirable behaviors
  3. Techniques used to plan instruction and assess student learning
  4. Applied behavior modification of a target behavio
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5. Mrs. Strand has been a sixth-grade English teacher for eleven years. There are several students in the classroom that are not being successful though they seem to be capable and are on-task. Mrs. Strand invites a colleague in to observe her teaching so that she can get some peer feedback on how to improve her instructional methods. After the students leave for the day, Mrs. Strand and her colleague sit down to discuss the lesson. The colleague’s notes mention that Mrs. Strand lectured for more than half the block. Several of the students had raised their hands, and Mrs. Strand asked them to wait until the end of her lesson to ask questions. Those students did not ask their questions when she prompted for them at the end of the lesson. Additionally, she worked quietly at her desk grading papers while the students completed their independent work. They turned in their work and moved on to approved free-time activities. Which of the following strategies is NOT appropriate to address Mrs. Strand’s areas of weakness in her instructional delivery?
  1. Provide frequent feedback to students throughout the instructional period
  2. Give the students a quiz at the end of the instructional period and assign mandatory tutoring to any students that do not pass
  3. Differentiate her instruction with other methods besides lecture
  4. Provide the students with a variety of activities that reinforce the key concept
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