EDUC 604 Quiz 1 Understanding Teaching
EDUC 604 Quiz: Understanding the Teaching Profession
Covers the textbook material from Module 1: Week 1.
- A recent emphasis on improving students’ thinking and comprehensive skills emphasizes _________________ as a central theme in teacher education.
- Which of the following is likely to increase the demand for more new teacher positions?
- Counselors point to all of the following as meaningful ways for teachers to reduce on-the-job stress levels, except:
- A common trend in alternative certification is for ____________________ to reenter the work force as teachers.
- The first three Teacher Residency programs established in America were in which three cities?
- The term “highly qualified teacher” implies a teacher must have
- Based on recent trends in teacher certification, certification requirements for secondary teaching certificates vary from one state to the next in
- Recent polls taken in 2008 indicated that the level of job satisfaction of teachers since 1984 has
- More than forty states have adopted the use of the ____________exam to test for basic professional knowledge in reading, mathematics, and communication.
- To become certified in his state, Bill had to pass a test that included reading, writing, and mathematics. What is the reasoning that is most likely to have led to this requirement?
- Which of the following statements describes developments that have occurred over the last decade in teacher education and certification?
- In which eld of study has there been a persistent shortage of teachers?
- Potential difficulties teachers are unprepared for include
- The trend in college students entering the teaching profession in the 1980s to today has
- The minimum educational requirement that all states require of teacher is a(n)
- Programs that provide intense supervision and compressed formal coursework during the first few years of assignment to a teaching position can best be termed
- Which of the following presents the greatest obstacle to teachers’ gaining the kind of autonomy suggested by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards?
- The fact that there is no agreed-upon body of knowledge for teaching is a limitation when professional organizations try to increase teachers’
- Over thirty-four states legally require _____________, while it is permissible in eleven states.
- In 2006, the average teacher’s salary was ________________ below that of comparable workers.
- When considering a defined body of knowledge as a characteristic of a profession, which of the following statements accurately describes a criticism of teacher preparation programs?
- The division and rivalry of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is often seen as
- Professional standard boards in each state have the authority to
- In recent measures of occupational prestige, teachers rank
- Merit pay is often considered a(n) __________________ for superior performance.
- _______________ do not permit collective bargaining.
- The AFT does not allow membership of
- Urban teachers prefer to join the AFT primarily because of the organization’s
- Preparing a good teacher in a “defined body of knowledge” often results in _______________ being a part of the teacher preparation program.
- Specialized professional organizations generally do not provide