Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching: Professional Development

1.A new teacher wants ideas for teaching fractions that she can discuss with other third-grade teachers. Which resource best matches that aim?

2.A first-year teacher is unsure how to respond when a student shuts down. A veteran teacher offers to watch one lesson and talk afterward. What is the veteran acting as?

3.Several teachers meet every two weeks to look at student work on the same writing skill and plan the next lesson together. What structure is this?

4.A teacher attends a Saturday workshop on discussion moves, then never tries any of them or talks about them with her team. What is missing?

5.A teacher keeps a weekly note: what she tried, what students did, and what she will change. Which practice is this?

6.After a lesson falls apart, a teacher writes what happened, what she did, and what she might do next time, without blaming the class in general terms. What is this called?

7.A colleague watches a lesson at the teacher's invitation and they debrief using two prompts: what supported learning, and what to try next. What is the colleague in this role?

8.A teacher builds a portfolio of lesson plans, student-work samples, and short reflections for her own review, not for a public website. What is a sound use of it?

9.A teacher reads a study claiming a discussion routine raised participation, then tries the routine for two weeks and compares her own notes. What is she doing with the research?

10.A workshop presenter says a program "always doubles reading scores." The handout has no sample, no comparison group, and no description of the students. How should a teacher treat the claim?

11.A student's work and behavior change sharply over two weeks. The teacher has tried classroom supports. Who is an appropriate next school partner?

12.A student's speech is hard to understand and it limits his sharing in class. The teacher has already adjusted participation. Who should she involve through the school?

13.A student struggles to form letters and to use scissors, and classroom practice has not been enough. Which specialist is the best school partner to consult?

14.An individualized education program meeting is scheduled. The classroom teacher has daily evidence about reading. What is her role?

15.A paraeducator is assigned to support two students during reading. The classroom teacher should do what?

16.A teacher of students who are advanced asks to plan a compacting option for two children who already know the unit. How should the classroom teacher respond?

17.A family asks how to help with reading at home. The teacher wants a partnership, not a list of complaints. Which opening fits?

18.Several caregivers cannot come to a weekday afternoon conference. What is a professional response?

19.A teacher wants family volunteers during a science investigation. What plan uses volunteers well?

20.A local librarian offers to host a research visit tied to the class question. What should the teacher do before saying yes?

21.Teachers and a community clinic want a plan so families know about a free hearing screening. What should they name first?

22.A team writes an action plan: who will contact families, by what date, and how they will know the contacts happened. Why include the check?

23.Two teachers disagree about a student's reading group. The talk becomes personal. What move best protects the collaboration?

24.A teacher learns that a colleague discussed a student's disability in the staff room, naming the student, with people who do not teach him. What is the problem?

25.A caregiver asks for another child's scores "to see if mine is behind." What should the teacher do?

26.A student writes a story criticizing a school rule. Classmates are upset. The story does not threaten anyone. What should guide the teacher?

27.A parent challenges a library book in the classroom collection. The teacher has not read the school's review policy. What is the professional first step?

28.A teacher suspects a student is being neglected. The student has said he often has no food at home and comes to school in unsafe conditions. What is the teacher's duty?

29.Before a student is suspended for more than a short period, the family is told the reason and given a chance to respond. Which idea does that process reflect?

30.A teacher wants to copy an entire consumable workbook for every student instead of buying it. The school has no license for that copying. What is the problem?

31.A student is injured after the teacher left the science materials, including a sharp tool, unattended during a transition she had not planned. What issue should she recognize?

32.A teacher's certificate expires at the end of the month. She assumes the school will renew it without any action from her. What is her responsibility?

33.A probationary teacher wants tenure explained. Which statement is the careful one?

34.The school is deciding how to schedule reading support. A teacher argues from her students' work rather than from which plan is easiest for her prep period. What leadership move is that?

35.A news story portrays teachers at the school as careless. The staff wants to respond. What is a professional way to engage the public perception?

36.A teacher is asked to join a committee writing the school's homework guideline. She has logs of what homework her students actually finish. How should she contribute?

37.An email to all families includes a child's full name, his reading score, and a request for help. The message was meant to celebrate growth. What should the teacher have done?

38.A student tells a teacher about a conflict at home that is not abuse or neglect, and asks her not to tell his caregiver. The caregiver later asks if anything is worrying him at school. What is a sound approach?

39.A teacher finds a useful article and wants her team to read it before they change a routine. What makes the share professional rather than a demand?

40.Graduate coursework is available in literacy. A teacher whose students struggle with comprehension wants to choose a course. Which choice best matches her students' need?

41.A mentor suggests the new teacher visit one other classroom a month and write what she might borrow. What is the main value of the visit?

42.The school's learning community asks each teacher to bring one piece of student work and a question. A teacher brings only a complaint about the schedule. What did she miss?

43.A teacher wants feedback that is safer than a formal evaluation. She asks a peer to observe one part of a lesson she names in advance. Why name the focus?

44.After peer feedback, the teacher writes what she will change tomorrow and checks the student result the day after. What does the check add?

45.A conference speaker describes a strategy. The teacher writes two questions she still has and one way she could try it on a small scale. Why keep the trial small?

46.The physical therapist sends a short note about how a student should move between centers. The teacher ignores it because "therapy is not my subject." What is the mistake?

47.A family speaks a language the teacher does not. A conference is coming. What should she arrange?

48.The teacher documents contacts with a family: date, topic, and what was agreed. Why keep that log?

49.A community member offers to sell a product to students during class. The teacher likes the product. What should she consider first?

50.A new teacher is overwhelmed and wants to improve one thing at a time. Which professional-development plan fits the first months?

51.A teacher quotes a single blog post as proof that homework "never helps." The post has no data. How should the team treat it?

52.The librarian and the teacher co-plan a research lesson. The librarian will teach source evaluation. The teacher will teach the science question. What makes this collaboration clear?

53.A teacher posts a photo of a class project. Several students are identifiable, and she does not have permission to publish student images. What should she do?

54.During a fire drill a teacher is responsible for the class count and the route. She stays on her phone and two students take a different hall. What duty did she neglect?

55.A field trip is planned. A student who uses a wheelchair is told to stay behind because the destination has steps. What should the teacher do?

56.Girls in the class are steered away from the robotics club because "they usually prefer art." A girl asks to join. What should the teacher do?

57.A student needs a medication during the day. The family hands the teacher a bottle and asks her to decide the dose if he "seems off." What is the right boundary?

58.A colleague asks to see a student's reading record "out of curiosity." The colleague does not teach the student and has no assigned support role. What should the teacher say?

59.A teacher wants to show three paragraphs from a long article, cite the source, and use them once to critique an argument. The school has no blanket ban, and the use is limited. Which judgment fits a beginning teacher's copyright caution?

60.A student creates a comic in class. The teacher wants to sell prints of it at a craft fair. The student and family have not agreed. Who holds the decision?

61.A teacher keeps a public social-media account and a student asks to follow it. The account mixes personal posts and class news. What is the sound practice?

62.A family offers the teacher an expensive gift after she writes a recommendation. What is the professional concern?

63.A teacher is offered pay to tutor her own students after school, using the school's materials, and to focus on the items she will put on Friday's quiz. What is the problem?

64.A teacher disagrees with a new reading program. She tells families it is worthless before she has tried it or spoken with her team. What would be more professional?

65.A student asks the teacher whom she voted for and presses her to say the other candidate is bad. What should she do?

66.The class is comparing how different families mark a winter holiday. One student does not celebrate it. What should the lesson do?

67.A teacher sees a colleague mock a student's accent in the workroom. No student is present. What is a professional response?

68.The principal asks for an honest account of a lesson that went poorly, for a coaching conversation, not a rating. The teacher is tempted to describe a different, smoother lesson. What should she do?

69.A data meeting shows that a small group missed the same item. The team wants a next step. Which step matches the purpose of looking at the data?

70.Before a peer visit, the teacher and the observer agree on the question, what evidence to collect, and when they will talk. Why agree before the lesson?

71.A teacher sets a professional goal: "be better at discussion." Her mentor says the goal is hard to support. What revision helps?

72.A book study meets monthly. Members are supposed to try one idea and bring a result. One teacher summarizes the chapter and has not tried anything. What is the missing part?

73.An association offers a journal, a conference, and a forum where teachers of the same grade ask questions. Why might a new teacher join?

74.A teacher presents at a conference about a writing unit. She wants to show student work. What should she change before the slides?

75.Two teachers describe their morning meetings differently. They want a common purpose before they share the routine. What should they settle first?

76.A family's work schedule means the child is often late. The teacher wants the child in class and the family respected. Which contact fits?

77.A teacher records a difficult conversation with a colleague in an angry private note, then later uses the note to prepare a calm, specific request. What did the delay help?

78.The school asks teachers to sponsor a student club. A teacher agrees and learns she must stay until every student is picked up. Why does that matter?

79.A guest speaker is controversial. The teacher wants students to hear a primary account of a local event. What planning keeps the visit educational?

80.A teacher copies a worksheet from a paid site by taking screenshots, because her subscription expired. What is the issue?

81.A research summary says a strategy "caused" higher scores. The study only shows that schools using the strategy also had higher scores, with no controls. What should the teacher notice?

82.A pilot of a discussion routine included six students in one classroom. The brochure says the result will hold for every grade. What is the cautious reading?

83.A teacher wants to try two ways of practicing spelling and compare them with her own class. She will not publish names. What else keeps the try ethical?

84.The team's norm is "ask about the work, not the person." A comment begins, "You always coddle them." How can a colleague redirect?

85.Warm feedback is required before a suggestion in the team's protocol. A teacher skips to a list of faults. What does the protocol protect?

86.A coach and an evaluator both visit classrooms. The coach says her notes are not for the personnel file. Why does that distinction matter to the teacher?

87.A first-year teacher has an induction schedule: a mentor, two focused observations, and a course on classroom community. She skips the course because she wants only the mentor. What does she lose?

88.A mentor cancels the weekly meeting often and offers no other time. The new teacher is struggling with transitions. What is a professional next step?

89.A teacher keeps her certificate, her renewal credits, and her mandated-reporter training in one place and checks the dates each summer. Why is that a professional habit?

90.The teacher is asked to write a recommendation. She did not teach the student and has no records. The family wants a strong letter this week. What should she do?

91.A parent-teacher organization asks teachers which supplies would most help learning. A teacher answers with a specific list tied to a science unit. How is that leadership?

92.A volunteer has not completed the school's screening, and the office says he may not work with students yet. He is a neighbor the teacher trusts. What should she do?

93.A teacher wants families to know how to contact her. Which practice is both open and bounded?

94.The teacher notices a pattern in her reflections: her questions are almost all recall. She brings that pattern to her study group. What is she using the group for?

95.A district survey asks whether teachers had time to use the new materials. The teacher answers that she did not, and adds what was missing. Why is the honest answer useful?

96.A colleague is out, and the office cannot find a substitute for the first hour. An administrator asks the teacher to watch both classes in one room. The teacher believes she cannot supervise that many students safely. What should she do?

97.A student discloses abuse. The teacher has reported it through the required channel. The student asks what will happen next, and the teacher does not know the agency's timeline. What should she say?

98.A teacher finds a planning template she likes and shares it with the team, naming the colleague who made it. Why mention the source?

99.The teacher is compiling a portfolio for her own review. She wants artifacts from several months, not a single good day. Which set fits?

100.A community partner wants student essays for a public display. Families have not been asked. Some essays describe private family events. What should happen before anything is displayed?

101.A teacher attends a conference session and disagrees with the presenter. She has a specific example from her classroom. How can she participate well?

102.The staff is writing a homework guideline. A teacher whose students have limited quiet space at home argues for a shorter, more flexible assignment. What principle is she raising?

103.A teacher must report a safety concern about a colleague's supervision. She worries about staff-room relationships. What standard should decide?

104.The teacher's weekly plan includes a ten-minute block labeled "professional reading" that she always gives away to extra grading. She wants the reading to happen. What change fits?

105.A family corrects the teacher's pronunciation of their child's name and asks her to use it. She finds the name unfamiliar. What should she do?

106.A teacher is invited to help interview a new colleague. She is given the questions and told not to ask about the candidate's family plans. Why is that limit there?

107.At the end of the year the teacher writes three keep-or-change notes: one routine to keep, one lesson to redo, and one skill to study next year. What professional habit is that?

108.A new teacher wants to be seen as competent, so she stops asking questions in the team meeting. Her transitions are still chaotic. What better reading of professionalism fits?