TRUE/FALSE.1) Healthy teacher-student relationships are vital for effective classroom management.
2) The teacher's primary focus in classroom management should be on student productivity.
3) Student engagement is associated with student learning.
4) Effective classroom managers provide highly structured, task-oriented environments.
5) Placing student chairs in rows should be avoided.
6) If a classroom has one computer for student use, the computer should be reserved for instructional games as a reward for learning or behavior.
7) In managing classroom time, teachers' goal should be to maximize engaged time.
8) During independent work periods, the time a teacher spends assisting an individual student should be brief (less than 30 seconds).
9) In order to maximize fairness in the classroom, inclusive and responsive teachers refrain from considering their own personal preferences and biases.
10) The greater the physical distance between teacher and student, the higher the student’s on-task behaviors.
MULTIPLE CHOICE.11) The teacher's major task in creating classroom community is to help students ______.
A) communicate with respect and empathy
B) develop a healthy sense of competition
C) create token economies that mirror productive communities
D) exert positive peer pressure for behavior and performance
12) In creating a loop, the teacher arranges student desks so that ______.
A) students can quickly form small-group or whole-class loops
B) he can quickly get to each desk without changing direction
C) he can place disruptive students in the loop marked on the floor with tape
D) no student feels out of the loop
13) The closest synonym for ambience is ______.
A) sleepiness
B) affect
C) feeling tone
D) none of the above
14) Which of the following activities do effective classroom managers employ during the early days of school?
A) encourage students to monitor themselves
B) teach routines
C) use multiple assessments
D) two of the above
15) Which of the following statements accurately describes the use of special interest areas in the classroom? Special interest areas should ______.
A) expand the curriculum
B) be limited in scope to those grade-level standards that students are having difficulty mastering
C) be avoided at the secondary level
D) yield standards-based assignments for the teacher to correct
16) On Wednesday, a teacher concludes that her students are not following the routine for how to enter the room at the beginning of the period. On Thursday she should ______.
A) throw candy to the students who enter the room correctly
B) provide a handout of the routine, have students write the steps two times each, and have a family member sign it that night
C) on the board, write the names of students who enter the room incorrectly
D) post the steps of the routine on a chart and reteach the routine
17) If students begin to misbehave as a teacher delivers instruction during a lesson, the teacher should check ______.
A) the discipline sheet
B) his allocated time
C) his routine
D) his pacing
18) To ensure smooth transitions, teachers should ______.
A) teach them inductively and allow for discovery
B) have one student serve as transition monitor
C) anticipate and teach them like a routine
D) keep them leisurely and relaxed
19) A teacher's math lesson runs unexpectedly short. What should the teacher assign next?
A) quiet talk with neighbors
B) dodge ball with math team names
C) students' selection of activities from the choice board
D) a word search using algebra words
20) At the end of a grammar lesson, a teacher releases students to do a textbook page to practice parts of speech. Very soon, 20 of the 30 students raise their hands for help. What should the teacher do next?
A) Remind the students that she just taught this and that they need to think harder.
B) Tell students to wait patiently until she can get to them.
C) Stop the independent practice period, find out which parts of speech are most troublesome, and reteach those.
D) Stop the independent practice period and reteach the lesson, start to finish.
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