Teachers who conduct action research might: Correct Answer: Videotape their lessons to reflect on instructional strategies. A student-centered classroom uses reciprocal teaching to analyze a selection of text. The 4 basic steps that are used in reciprocal teaching are: Correct Answer: Predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarizing. What type of test could a school district use to determine if state standards were being effectively taught? Correct Answer: Criterion-referenced test Which of the following is the best example of a cognitive objective? Correct Answer: Students will complete a two-digit multiplication skills test with 85% mastery. An educator signed up for a paid online professional development session that required watching short video segments and personally reflecting on their content. The educator let the videos run in the background, and quickly clicked through the acknowledgments without completing the reflections. What portion of the Code of Ethics does this violate? Correct Answer: The obligation to the profession. Learning activities should always be based on: Correct Answer: specific objectives. An elementary reading teacher wants to get parents reading nightly with their children. The most effective way to do this while fostering parent communication is to: Correct Answer: Invite parents to a "reading night" where student and parents meet to read and share favorite poems. Which of the following statements from a teacher would be considered classroom management through use of negative reinforcement? Correct Answer: "If you would start turning in your homework, I wouldn't have to call your mother every afternoon!" In order to practice effective behavior management, classroom rules Correct Answer: should be followed by all students and be consistently enforced. Which of the following would be a responsibility of a school advisory council? Correct Answer: Developing a school improvement plan Which of the following would be an example of negative reinforcement? Correct Answer: The teacher stops complaining about the messy floor after the students clean it up. A teacher has discovered and implemented a new online behavior-management program that is improving student behavior while providing an easy way to communicate with parents. The teacher should Correct Answer: Meet with the principal to discussing sharing the new product at the next professional development day. The best tool for a teacher to use to keep a running, averaged record of student scores throughout the year is Correct Answer: Spreadsheet The most effective way to present vocabulary is Correct Answer: in context to convey rich meaning to the students. The best graphic organizer for analyzing similarities and differences is Correct Answer: a Venn diagram An ELL joins the classroom mid-year. She appears to speak fluent English and participates well in class, yet struggles academically in reading and science. When questioned, the teacher learns that the student has only lived in America for 2 years. The student's academic struggles are likely the result of Correct Answer: Not having mastered cognitive academic language proficiency due to the length of time she has been speaking English. The input-hypothesis model developed by Steven Krashen would suggest that ELLs would benefit from Correct Answer: Being given information that is just slightly above their ability level in the second language.