Gina is usually a cooperative, seemingly well-adjusted child. On a particular day, you
notice she is withdrawn and does not want to interact with you or the other children.
This behavior lasts for approximately three days. You are unable to contact her parents
during that time and Gina will not discuss the reasons for her behavior. Explain whether
you would be concerned that Gina has an emotional or behavioral disorder, the reasons
for your responses, and actions you might take to help Gina.
Which of the following in one of the key components of RTI models?
a. They implement non-research based instruction matched to the students needs
b. They implement high-quality, research-based instruction matched to the needs of the
students
c. They implement high-quality, research-based instruction matched to the needs of the
teacher
d. They implement fair-quality, researched based instruction to match the needs of the
students
The self-concepts of some of your students with disabilities can be very fragile
depending on their life situation. Which of the following could you do to enhance your
students self-concepts?
a. Force students to stay on difficult tasks until they get the correct answer.
b. Ensure students work only with other students with similar academic or social
problems.
c. Provide opportunities for students who struggle academically to succeed in other
ways.
d. Allow only those students who succeed academically to work on other tasks they
enjoy.
When a teacher has students evaluate their own text for friendliness and readability, this
strategy is know as:
a. activities-oriented learning
b. lecture
c. FLIP Chart
d. student-led learning
Which of the following are principles of support that should be considered
when working with families of students with disabilities?
a. Once a plan has been developed, commit to it and make no changes.
b. Identify and work on the family’s weaknesses.
c. Deliver flexible services.
d. Deliver services that are beneficial to the school.
What are considered the major characteristics of the U.S. macroculture?
a. Individualism valued
b. Orientation toward materialism
c. Emphasis on cooperation and teamwork
d. a and b
By the age of thirteen, students can switch their communication style depending on the
person whom they are talking. Communication style is also referred to as:
a. receptive language
b. register
c. feature analysis
d. form
Which sequence should students follow to learn fractions?
a. manipulates concrete models, points to fractional models when name is stated by
another, names fractional units when selected by another, draws diagrams to represent
fractional units, matches fractional units, writes fractional names when given fractions
to solve problems.
b. manipulates concrete models, matches fractional models, points to fractional models
when name is stated by another, names fractional units when selected by another, draws
diagrams to represent fractional units, writes fractional names when given fractional
drawings, uses fractions to solve problems
c. manipulates concrete models, points to fractional models when name is stated by
another, matches fractional models, draws diagrams to represent fractional units, names
fractional units when selected by another, writes fractional names when given fractional
drawings, and uses fractions to solve problems
d. manipulates concrete models, matches fractional models, draws diagrams to
represent fractional units, points to fractional models when name is stated by another,
names fractional units when selected by another, writes fractional names when given
fractional drawings, and uses fractions to solve problems
What should teachers do to effectively deal with unplanned parent conferences?
a. Politely tell parents that they must make an appointment and come back at the agreed
time.
b. Listen to the parents until they are finished talking.
c. Refer parents to the school counselor.
d. Tell the parents you are too busy to talk with them.
This process involves administering the same test to all students to determine who is
likely to be at risk for academic difficulties.
a. RTI
b. Universal design
c. Universal screening
d. Informal assessment
In many cases students who were assessed as being low in both ability and achievement
did not qualify for special education services unless they were cognitively delayed.
What are two of the difficulties identified by the authors in this process?
a. Over reliance on teacher recommendation and testing by school psychologist
b. Over reliance on IQ measures and the requirement to wait for a discrepancy between
IQ and achievement
c. Over reliance on parent input into child’s and IQ measures
d. Over reliance on teacher input and IQ measures
Which of the following students is most likely to have ADHD?
a. Jimmy is 16 years old. He has always been a good student with above average
grades. Lately he doesn”t seem to be able to pay attention to lectures, complete long
assignments, and is easily distracted.
b. Since the age of three, Carlos fidgets and squirms, has difficulty waiting for his turn
and often cries if he doesn”t get what he wants right away.
c. Cheryl is a fourth grader who loves music, PE, and science. She enjoys these classes
and usually earns an “A” in them. When it comes to the rest of the school day, Cheryl
has difficulty waiting for her turn, she blurts out answers, and interrupts others.
d. Right after his grandfather’s death, Patrick had difficulty following rules, could not
remain seated during class, and was talking incessantly.
In This Chapter, a summary of a study examining the parental involvement of Hispanic
parents in the child’s literacy activities is presented. Which answer best summarizes the
findings?
a. Parents were interested in some of the activities but felt that most of them were not
feasible for them to do in the home and that the school should assume more
responsibility for teaching their children to read and write.
b. Parents identified all the activities as helpful and were interested in implementing
them but felt they needed more communication with the teacher and further information
about implementation.
c. Parents indicated that they had difficulty reading and writing in English and that they
would hope that the school would establish a program to further their literacy skills.
d. Parents requested that a special class for their children be offered after school so that
they would have adequate time to learn to read and write with trained professionals
providing the assistance.
Feedback is essential to the success of students with math difficulties. Which of the
following is an example of appropriate feedback?
a. “Garth you did a great job with the addition problems, but you still have some trouble
with subtraction. Please do five through ten over again.”
b. “Garth, please remind me to go over those subtraction problems with you next
week.”
c. “Garth, let’s look at number five again. What do you do first?”
d. “Garth, I see you had some trouble with numbers five through ten. I know you tried
very hard so don”t worry. I”ll only grade half of your assignment.”
One mathematics approach that has taken hold due to work at the University of Chicago
is the use of a __________________________ where the same skills literally entwined
into each year of school and the students “relearn” those skills in the same area.
Which of the tiers of intervention in RTI is being utilized if the general education
teacher is providing evidence-based instruction to all students in the class?
a. Tier 1
a. Tier 2
b. Tier 3
c. Tier 4
In order to help his students understand the material, Carl begins each new geography
lesson by going over the key terms in the chapter. What type of instructional activity is
Carl using?
a. content coverage
b. subject-centered
c. teacher-centered
d. process
What is the most important goal of handwriting?
a. fluency
b. consistent spacing between letters
c. legibility
d. communication
Kauffman (2004) discusses several reasons why students with emotional and behavioral
disorders are being under-identified in schools. Which of the following is NOT one of
those reasons?
a. Eligibility for categorization as emotionally disordered is not clearly defined.
b. Co-morbidity can make identification difficult.
c. Students are not displaying emotional and behavioral problems at school.
d. Adequate assessment measures to facilitate identification are few.
As a teacher, you can expect to collaborate with the following:
a. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and counselor
b. Psychologist, principal, other teachers
c. Speech and language therapist, special education teachers, and nurse
d. Physical therapist, occupational therapist, counselor, psychologist, principal
“Significantly subaverage” intellectual functioning is determined as an IQ of:
a. 80″85 or less
b. 75″80 or less
c. 70″75 or less
d. 65″70 or less
Robert has adequate decoding skills but difficulty understanding what he reads. Robert
needs:
a. comprehension strategies to use before, during, and after reading
b. to develop phonological awareness
c. reciprocal causation
d. more systematic phonics instruction
Michael hates math. Whenever he is assigned a page full of problems for homework, he
completes the first three or four problems and then gives up. He already knows he’s
going to get them all wrong anyway. What type of factor is influencing Michael’s
behavior?
a. cognitive factors
b. educational factors
c. personality factors
d. neuropsychological patterns
A student with problems learning to read may find success in a print-rich classroom
because:
a. it focuses on high-stakes testing
b. it is student and materials-centered
c. there is an emphasis on pre-packaged curricular materials
d. there are few opportunities for reading
Identify which technique is used in the following exchange: Patrick: “I got that question
easy” Teacher: “Yes, you answered that question easily.”
a. intrinsic motivation
b. language expansion
c. language reinforcement
d. extrinsic clarification
According to Ellis, in learning a second language, which of the following is NOT a
factor that should be considered?
a. Situational factors
b. Linguistic input
c. Learner characteristics
d. Cognitive academic language proficiency
I. Do not interfere with the seizure
II. Ease the student to the floor and clear the area around him.
III. Remain with the student until he is fully awake.
IV. Place something soft under his head so it will not bang on the floor.
Using the steps above as a reference which of the sequences listed below is the correct
one to follow if you had a student in your classroom experience and tonic-clonic (grand
mal) seizure?
a. I, III, II, and IV
b. II, IV, I, and III
c. II, I, IV, and III
d. II, IV, III, and I
Since with RTI students are screened early and their progress in being assessed
frequently to see they are making adequate progress RTI is often referred to as a
a. Probation model
b. Prevention and intervention model
c. Adequate yearly progress model
d. Multifactored evaluation model
If a student is diagnosed with this syndrome then he or she must have behaviors
documented in six areas that may include: qualitative impairment in social interactions
or no clinical delays in cognition or self-help skills.
a. Autism
b. Aspergers Syndrome
c. Pervasive Developmental Disorder
d. PDD- NOS
What percentage of children with ADD respond favorably to medication?
a. 70″80%
b. There is no conclusive research about whether or not children with ADD respond
favorably to medication.
c. 5″10%
d. 50%
Helping students with emotional and behavioral disorders learn to manage their
own behavior is one of the major areas teachers have to address with this population of
students. One of these strategies is the use of self-monitoring. Which of the following is
one of the benefits of teaching self-monitoring?
a. It increases students’ independence and helps them become responsible for their own
behavior.
b. It increases the teacher’s independence and helps them become responsible for their
own behavior.
c. It increases their parent’s independence and helps them become responsible for their
own behavior.
d. It decreases the students independence on teachers and parents.
Which of the following is needed for a student to receive educational services from a
teacher specializing in visual impairments?
a. parental request
b. referral from a general education teacher
c. below average performance on the school’s vision screening
d. written documentation from an ophthalmologist
All of the following are advantages to conflict reports, EXCEPT:
a. allows students to practice writing skills.
b. gives students a chance to tell their side of the story.
c. gives students time to let their anger subside.
d. provides a report about what happened in case legal issues arise.
The goal of study skills and strategy instruction is to
a. create independent learners
b. improve the school’s standardized test scores
c. give students an additional instructional device
d. Promote student-centered organization
Explain how the Individuals with Disabilities Education Acts of 1990 and of 1997 and
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act differ from the original
legislation
P. L. 94-142
In your learning disabilities classroom you have three students with very distinctive
types of learning disabilities. The first student has ________________ because she has
difficulty reading due to decoding and spelling problems. The second student has
_____________________ as he has a difficult time forming letters when handwriting.
The third student has _________________ as he has problems with math concepts and
computation.
___________________ is being used when your students are able to “think about,
analyze, and reflect on language as an object” similar to how students can describe or
tell you about a picture they have drawn.
Students with learning disabilities often have difficulty with memory. One way to help
students with their memory is the use of _______________ where the teacher breaks
information to be learning into manageable chunks. The teacher will also run short
study sessions with students.
In your classroom you have one student who has a ____________ ____________
problem because he has difficulty understanding what is being communicated to him.
The students in your classroom use audiotape versions of their reading books and take
oral forms of the tests their non-disabled peers are taking. You are using
_____________________ in your classroom.
Describe the differences between transitional bilingual education and maintenance
bilingual education.
You have been working with various writing styles with your junior high school
students. One style you have used is _________________ or story writing so your
students can relate experiences they have had or heard about. Another style you have
used is _________________ writing, or informational writing which can be a problem
for some students with writing problems. The last one you used in class is
________________ writing to help develop your students ability to create a complete
story.
Explain how changes in teacher behavior can change the behavior of students in his or
her classroom.
In the __________________________the same empirically validated treatments are
used for all children with similar problems and the protocol does not differ from child
to child.
In _________________________________ the students are asked to read lists of words
or passages leveled by grade and then are asked to retell or answer comprehension
questions about the passage read.
What are the advantages of teaching goal setting? Describe how can you incorporate
goal setting into a thematic unit in your classroom?
If you are using such things as “great job”, pat on the back, or a ticket when he or she
demonstrates appropriate behavior you are using________________________.
Communicating with parents must be an ongoing part of your daily routine as a teacher.
If you are a special education teacher the communication with the parents of your
students with special needs is particularly important. What are some of the ways to
effectively communicate with parents? List and briefly explain each of these types of
communication.
Keith is a student with developmental disabilities in your general education class. Write
a lesson plan demonstrating the concept of partial participation. State the goals for
Keith in your lesson plan.