PLT Professional Development, Leadership, and Community

Support personnel influence schools in all of the following ways except...

• Development of school culture

• Comprising support and intervention teams

• Providing a resource for students emotionally and academically

• Going to students' sporting events

All of the following are types of support personnel EXCEPT...

• IEP team members

• Parents

• Paraeducators

• Teacher's aides

Which of the following is an example of a stake-holder?

• a student

• a businessman

• a parent or guardian

• all of the above

Which of the following sources of research is most reliable?

• peer-reviewed journals

• mainstream newspapers

• professional magazines

• online encyclopedias

About what percentage of the multiple choice questions on the PLT are related to PD, leadership, and community?

• 50% (35 questions)

• 15% (14 questions)

• 5% (4 questions)

Reflective practice...

• can include reflective journaling

• can include incident analysis

• is thinking about one's own professional practices as a part of professional development

• all of the above

Teacher roles include...

• serving as an advocate for learners, their families, and administration

• collaboration

• communicating effectively with families and support personnel

• gossiping about colleagues

Which of the following pieces of legislation prohibits discrimination based on disability in any program or activity that is subsidized by federal funds, including athletics?

• the First Amendment

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

• Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

• the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Which of the following is an example of fair use of copyrighted materials?

• A teacher shows students a rented video as a reward at the end of the week.

• A teacher copies one chapter of a novel that contains several literary elements to annotate with students.

• For a performance, a teacher copies a piece of sheet music she finds on the Internet instead of buying it.

• A teacher creates a PowerPoint presentation with a 500-word poem in its entirety that she uses every semester.

A process by which goals and the steps toward achieving those goals are determined

• reflective practice

• action plan

• due process

• incident analysis