TEXAS PEDAGOGY AND PROFESSIONAL RESPON SIBILITIES

TEXAS PEDAGOGY AND PROFESSIONAL RESPON SIBILITIES

EXAM (ACTUAL 2025/2026) EC-12 (160) R TEST BANK 300+

QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS (GRADED

A+) TEXES PPR EXAM (BRAND NEW!!)

Which of the following rationales would a supporter of block scheduling provide to convince others to support the organizational structure?

• Teachers can focus on more subjects in a shorter time
• There is an emphasis on mastering facts and skills
• Students' time in quality learning situations is increased
• The responsibility for learning is shifted to the teachers
• Students' time in quality learning situations is increased

Which of the following strategies best supports a teacher's goal to incorporate critical thinking skills into language arts lessons?

• Providing students with opportunities to seek additional content

knowledge

• Creating a forum for students to debate points of view
• Having students individually summarize various literature read
• Asking students to create practice questions as a review activity
• Creating a forum for students to debate points of view

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Per the Renzulli's Three-Ring Model, what should teachers observe in students who are gifted?

• Superior intelligence, spatial awareness, and social aptitude
• Heightened knowledge of complex concepts, critical analysis, and

kinesthetic awareness

• Above-average abilities, task commitment, and creativity
• Motivation, engagement, and grade-level or higher abilities
• Above-average abilities, task commitment, and creativity

Which of the following must a teacher focus on when creating objectives that align with the ABCD method?

• Audience, behavior, conditions, and degree of mastery
• Acceptable concept, benchmarks, constructive contexts, and

diverse activities

• Achievable, basic, clear, and diagnostic goals
• Accessible, lendable, comprehensive, and deliverable
• Audience, behavior, conditions, and degree of mastery

Which of the following teacher strategies best promotes ongoing communication to enhance parental involvement in student learning?

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• Creating an accessible class blog to provide parents with a forum

for open discussion

• Using graphing software to display class progress to parents at the

end of each grading period

• Producing a monthly slideshow for parents of student work

samples and class projects

• Creating an accessible class blog to provide parents with a forum

for open discussion

Claire is a 10-year-old student who is unable to focus on any academic task for more than a couple of minutes at a time. She spends much of her work time tapping her pencil, bothering others, rummaging through her desk, or crawling on the floor. She is currently receiving special education services and has a behavioral intervention plan (BIP).

Which of the following is the most appropriate way for the teacher to seek support in teaching Claire how to better manage her behaviors?

• Encouraging Claire's parents to initiate a system at home that will

reward Claire for appropriate behaviors

• Requesting that Claire's behaviors be reevaluated by an Admission

Review Dismissal (ARD) committee

• Meeting with colleagues to study case histories related to behavior

management

• Consulting with the school nurse to learn about attention-

deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 3 / 4

• Requesting that Claire's behaviors be reevaluated by an Admission

Review Dismissal (ARD) committee

Middle school science students are creating a multimedia presentation about different types of soil. The students are required to include pictures of various types of soil and an explanation of the attributes of each soil type. Which of the following best ensures that students can include pictures in the presentation without breaking copyright laws?

• Having students copy pictures from Web sites and reference the

sources within the presentation

• Allowing students to use pictures that they scanned from available

books

• Having students use photographs that they took with a digital

camera

• Allowing students to use digital photographs that they purchased to

used in the presentation

• Having students use photographs that they took with a digital

camera

At the beginning of the school year, a middle school science teacher presents a lesson demonstrating safe practices in the science lab.Which of the following activities is the most effective informal assessment of the lesson?

• Asking students to record laboratory safety notes in their science

journals

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