61.When teachers tie lessons to a main point and then provide support for that point, they are displaying aspects of which of the following essential teaching skills?

a.Attitudes

b.Focus

c.Feedback

d.Communication

62.Mrs. Barnhart is teaching her students about main idea.  She displays a paragraph on the overhead with a summary sentence below it that states the main idea.  Her display on the overhead would be best described as:

a.focus.

b.organization.

c.review.

d.connected discourse.

63.Robin uses colored wooden rods to help her students understand equivalent fractions and goes through four examples with them.  Her procedures illustrate the concept of:

a.sensory focus.

b.organization.

c.connected discourse.

d.perceptual reorganization.

64.Mr. Steward passes arrowheads around the classroom and shows slides of the different shapes the arrowhead took as the technology of the Native Americans improved.  This best illustrates:

a.connected discourse.

b.emphasis.

c.sensory focus.

d.visual discrimination.

65.Siri is teaching her students how to regroup.  She uses some unifix cubes to assist her students’ understanding. The use of these and other manipulatives in mathematics classes is best related to the concept of:

a.sensory focus.

b.working memory.

c.metacognitive knowledge.

d.transitional signals.

66.Information about current behavior that can be used to improve future performance is called:

a.review.

b.closure.

c.monitoring.

d.feedback.

67. Which is not an essential characteristic of effective feedback?

a.It is general.

b.It is immediate.

c.It provides corrective feedback.

d.It has a positive emotional tone.

68.Of the following, which is the most accurate statement regarding praise?

a.Praise is used frequently, more than 5 times, during most classes.

b.Praise is more often given to low-achieving students.

c.Teachers praise creative answers more than accurate answers.

d.Praise for good behavior is rare in most classrooms.

69. Regarding praise, research suggests that in practice teachers:

a.praise too often.

b.praise student behavior, not their work.

c.praise low achievers too much.

d.praise too generally.

70.Min is teaching English as a second language courses.  She provides a take-home assignment to her class that requires the students to ask for directions to a known location.  She wants to be sure her students have practice qualifying knowledge they were receiving from others.  She collects the assignments and gives the students grades and a model answer.  The use of the model answer in this case is an example of which essential teaching skill?

a.Attitude

b.Organization

c.Feedback

d.Focus