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As a principal of an elementary school, you are concerned with the number of students who score at Level 1 on FCAT Reading. You have done research and world like to pilot a new reading program. What would be the most important step to creating a positive attitude towards this type of change?

• Persuade and direct your best teachers to pilot this program

• Use long term and short term planning

• Use participatory decision making

• Communicate the research behind the reading program.

You are the assistant superintendent of curriculum within your school district. Your district is at the beginning stage of designing a new science curriculum. What is the most important factor in creating a new curriculum?

• A design that uses a variety of modalities for instruction.

• A design that correlates to the state standards and is based on learner and community needs.

• A design that emphasizes thinking skills.

• A design that matches outcomes to behavioral objectives.

You are serving as the mentor of a novice middle school principal who implemented a new math curriculum in drop out prevention classes within her school. The principal evaluated this curriculum by using a pre and post math test designed by her teachers, FCAT scores, and teacher input. What could the principal have done to best improve this evaluation process?

• Used more evaluation instrucments

• Provided rewards to teachers whose students had significant learning gains

• Provided rewards to students who had significant learning gains

• Sought feedback from parents an students.

As an assistant principal, you would like to positively reinforce the efforts of a group of teachers whose students have made significant gains in reading achievement. What would be the best way to do this?

• At a faculty meeting, identify the teachers to the group.

• Give the teachers certificates to a local restaurants.

• Ask the custodian to do a super clean on those teachers' room.

• Give the teachers' a monetary bonus.

You are an assistant principal who wants to change the lunch schedule to accommodate student needs. A group of teachers is resistance to the idea. What is the best way to create change?

• Use passive aggressive behavior with the group of resistors.

• Call a meeting and explain to the resistors, explain the situation, and ask for their input.

• Tell the resistors that you will reward them with their choice of planning period next year if they help you.

• Tell the resistors that you will reward them with their choice of planning period next year if they help you.

A student named Enrique does not do well on traditional subjects such as math and language arts. He does, however, excel at dance where he has amazing spatial, kinesthetic, and musical abilities. Enrique's skills can best be explained by which theory?

• Freud's Psychoanalytic Child Development Theory

• iaget's Cognitive Child Development Theory

• Bandura's Social Learning Theory

• Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.

A fifth grade teacher is having her students do an activity on nutrition.. She pairs up her students and asks them to evaluate the school lunch menu for one week based on healthy versus unhealthy criteria. Then, she has them create a new school lunch menu for one week with the information they have learned along with their food likes and dislikes. What term best describes this activity?

• Problem-Based Learning

• Differentiated Instruction

• Spiral Curriculum

• Learning Community

You are an assistant principal who is monitoring a first year teacher. The teacher is having difficulty with classroom management. What would be the best way to help this teacher?

• cooperative Learning

• Hands-on Learning

• Differentiated Instruction

• Thematic Instruction

What is a major benefit to student-centered learning?

• students get to work in a group with their friends.

• Students view the subject matter holistically so it makes things relevant.

• Students are motivated intrinsically in developing learning-how-to learn skills.

• Students maintain interest in the subject because of the kinesthetic experience.

What is the name for a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work or a guide for critiquing a project or student work?

• Rubric

• Norm-referenced test

• Student Portfolio

• Answer Key