Teaching as a Profession

Which of the following would not be a personality characteristic for an effective teacher to have?

• Caring
  
• Kindness
• Intolerance
• Commitment 

Students who attend a community college and plan to transfer to a four-year college or university often earn which type of degree?

• Associate’s
  
• Bachelor’s 
• Master’s 
• Doctorate 

Most school districts divide older preteens and young teens into their own schools due to .

• development stages
  
• parental concerns 
• societal pressures 
• height and weight 

Postsecondary programs include which of the following? 

• Technical schools
  
• Community colleges
  
• Four-year colleges 
• Technical schools,  Community colleges, &  Four-year colleges 

Most school districts provide all of the following benefits to their teachers except which of the following?

• Health insurance
  
• Paid vacation 
• Paid or unpaid leave of absence 
• Retirement savings plan 

Refers to an arrangement in which the same teacher and group of students remain in one classroom for most of the day, with one teacher teaching most or all subjects.

• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning
• curriculum
• nonsectarian

Learning that takes place when students work in groups to discuss and solve problems together.

• self-contained classrooms
• curriculum
• nonsectarian
• collaborative learning

The courses taught in a school, what is taught in each course, and how the courses are sequenced.

• curriculum
• nonsectarian
• self-contained classrooms
• collaborative learning

Not based on, or affiliated with, any religion.

• abstract thinking
• concrete thinking
• paraprofessional
• nonsectarian

Thinking about things that are actually experienced.

• curriculum
• abstract thinking
• concrete thinking
• school-based curriculum