51.After school the day before she was going to have the class do an experiment, a teacher checked to see if she had the worksheets for the students and the test tubes and other equipment she needed for the experiment.  This best illustrates which of the following?

a.Organization

b.Connected discourse

c.Withitness

d.Academic focus

52.Which of the following characteristics of effective communication refers to the cues that alert students to important information in a lesson?

a.Transition signals

b.Connected discourse

c.Emphasis

d.Precise language

53.Which of the following characteristics of effective communication refers to the teacher talk that eliminates vague terms from explanations and responses to students’ questions?

a.Transition signals

b.Connected discourse

c.Emphasis

d.Precise language

54.Which of the following characteristics of effective communication refers to instruction that is thematic and leads to a point?

a.Transition signals

b.Connected discourse

c.Emphasis

d.Precise language

55.Which of the following characteristics of effective communication refers to verbal statements indicating that one idea is ending and another is beginning?

a.Transition signals

b.Connected discourse

c.Emphasis

d.Precise language

56.  Compare the following two examples of teacher statements to students.  The first is:

“Sometimes we don’t make a literal statement.  This is hyperbole, like when you say, ‘I never worked so hard in my life.’  This probably isn’t true, so you grossly overstate the point.”

The second is:

“Grossly overexaggerated statements, such as ‘I’ve never worked so hard in my life,’ are a form of figurative language called hyperbole.”

Of the following essential teaching skills, the second, by contrast with the first, best illustrates:

a.an effective transition signal.

b.connected discourse.

c.emphasis.

d.feedback.

57.“We have been talking about stages of cognitive development.  We are going to shift now to a new but related topic.  The rest of class today will deal with psychosocial development, in terms of theoretical way of looking at behavior.”

The statement best illustrates the use of which of the following concepts of effective teaching?

a.Transitional signals

b.Emphasis

c.Connected discourse

d.Precise terminology

Items 58 and 59 are related.

58.Ms. O’Brian was teaching a unit on health and nutrition to her middle school class.  In referring to the national exercise recommendations for children, she repeated the amount of activity time recommended for children three times and paused so her students could write it down in their notebooks.  In so doing, Ms. O’Brian was best illustrating:

a.transition signals.

b.connected discourse.

c.emphasis.

d.feedback.

59.The essential teaching skill best reflected in Ms. O’Brian’s preceding example is:

a.organization.

b.focus.

c.attitudes.

d.communication.

60.Ms. Thornton says to her students, “Let’s do this once more so everyone understands.  What did Timmy just say about the setting of the story?” This question is most closely related to:

a.emphasis.

b.enthusiasm.

c.closure.

d.feedback.