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Your future teaching career has the potential to take you to many different places and put you in many different situations. Try to picture some possible situations right now. What would it be like to stand at the front of a classroom full of preschoolers from racially and culturally diverse backgrounds? Or suppose a tenth grader met with you to tell you that he or she felt completely overwhelmed by a term paper assignment, and had no idea where to start? What would you say, and how could you help?<\/p>\n

Now try to imagine something in even more vivid detail: imagine you are in a classroom teaching a specific subject, overseeing a specific activity, and using specific materials. How might you teach a middle school history unit on the Reconstruction era of the American South? How would you approach an elementary school science lesson about metamorphosis?<\/p>\n

These kinds of scenarios\u2014both simple ones and ones with complex detail\u2014are the subject of many questions on the Praxis PLT exams. The scenarios you\u2019ll be presented with are widely varied, covering different academic subjects and work with students at different ages. The wealth of scenarios found on a PLT exam are unlikely to all happen in the career of just one teacher, and they may involve subjects and age groups you aren\u2019t getting licensed to work with. Fortunately, you won\u2019t need content knowledge of the specific subject in any PLT scenario.<\/p>\n

What you will<\/em> need is a keen knowledge of how learning and teaching works, and an ability to apply that knowledge to the teaching situations presented on the PLT. Let\u2019s take a look at a sample PLT scenario question to see what specific pedagogy knowledge in requires:<\/p>\n

Refer to Question 5 on page 19 of the <\/strong>PLT Grades K-6 Study Companion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To understand this question and answer it correctly, you don\u2019t need to have worked with a fifth grader like Dan. You don\u2019t even need experience or training in teaching note-taking. (Although understanding note-taking pedagogy can certainly help make you more comfortable with the question.)<\/p>\n

But you do need to know the concept of \u201cleast restrictive environment\u201d as it pertains to education. This is the idea that students with learning or behavioral issues should be given only<\/em> the minimum amount of extra supervision and control that they need for effective learning.\u00a0 \u201cLeast restrictive environment\u201d policies are in place at many schools to prevent teachers and administrators from putting students with special needs under too much<\/em> control, in a way that may needlessly stigmatize the student or limit the student\u2019s ability to learn.<\/p>\n

You also need to know what an IEP is. IEP stands for I<\/strong>ndividualized E<\/strong>ducation P<\/strong>rogram, which means a written statement of learning needs and learning objectives created for students who have disabilities or special learning challenges. IEPs are used in all government-accredited K-12 schools, in accordance with federal regulations. (You can read the U.S. Department of Education\u2019s IEP definitions and standards here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

By knowing that learning goals are central to IEPs, you immediately know that you should focus on the goal\u2014learning to take good notes\u2014as you read the scenario. And if you understand \u201cleast restrictive environment,\u201d you know that this approach will avoid putting extra constraints on Dan and will also avoid embarrassing him in front of his classmates.<\/p>\n

This knowledge eliminates choice (A), because grading Dan on his notes at the end of term doesn\u2019t actually help him meet the goal of improving notes during the term. (B) is also out, because it provides a substitute activity for the one that is the focus of the learning goal\u2014Dan learns to review audio of a lesson instead of learning to take better notes. (D) can be eliminated because pairing Dan with a classmate he says he likes makes his learning routine more restrictive and could potentially cause his classmates to look down on him. So the answer must be (C)\u2014giving Dan a graphic organizer to support his note-taking activities is a step toward the IEP goal of effective, independent note-taking and is minimally restrictive.<\/p>\n

Most scenarios on the PLT are like the one above\u2014a brief description of a situation is provided, followed by a single question that requires knowledge of educational policy or learning theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some scenarios will be a bit longer, describing the student or students in greater detail and providing more information on the learning\/teaching situation. In some cases, a limited sample of actual lesson materials may appear on the test. Longer scenarios may also come with multiple questions instead of just one. For a longer scenario example, see page 21 of the PLT Grades 7-12 Study Companion<\/a>. And check out the practice questions in all four PLT Study Companions to get a good feel for PLT scenarios.<\/p>\n

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