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FTCE Professional Education (083)

With Online Practice Tests, 6th edition

Published 2016

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About the Authors

Dr. Erin Mander has studied curriculum and instruction at Wheaton College (B.A.), Walden University (M.A.), and the University of Central Florida (Ed.D.). She is a certified teacher who has been working in education for 14 years, teaching in the area of middle-level education. Currently, Dr. Mander is a curriculum consultant in Orange County and teaches both the FTCE General Knowledge and Professional Examination classes through the University of Central Florida Continuing Education Program. Her goal in the classroom is relating learning experiences that focus on the building blocks of successful test preparation: overcoming test anxiety, mastery of key skills/concepts, and understanding time management.

Tammy Powell is a University of Central Florida graduate and a certified teacher who has been working in education in Orange County for 16 years. Currently a fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Powell has taught elementary, middle, and high school, specializing in math and science. She is certified by the State of Florida in K6 Elementary Education, 59 Mathematics, and 612 Journalism. Mrs. Powell currently teaches both the FTCE General Knowledge Mathematics and the K6 Elementary Education classes for the UCF Continuing Education Program and works as a math, science, and subject-area exam tutor for Mastermind Educational Consulting. Her goal in the classroom is to make even the most difficult concepts easy to understand, while using thorough preparation to overcome the test anxiety that many adults experience.

Chris A. Rose is Assistant Division Director and Test Prep Director at the University of Central Floridas School of Continuing Education. With 20 years of higher-education experience, Mr. Rose has been responsible for programmatic and business development initiatives serving the citizens and business community. His experience has been focused on industry and professional development training as well as a specialization in exam preparation and professional certification review.

Mr. Rose started his career at UCFs Executive Development Center in the College of Business, and continued to build on his management and business relationship strengths at SCCorporate College (Seminole State College), where he guided the Business and Industry Support Center as well as other Continuing Education programs. Chris has a passion for student success and linking the best resources and tools to that endeavor. All UCF test-prep review courses, which Mr. Rose manages, follow the Core Success Factors: Confidence-building, Time Management and Concept & Skill Development.

Expert Reviewer

Timothy R. Blair is Professor in Reading/Literacy Education at the University of Central Florida. His Ph.D. was awarded in Early Childhood/Elementary Education with a major in Reading at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His interest areas are elementary reading methods; teaching culturally and linguistically different children to read; parent education; preparation of teachers for teaching in low-income schools, and research on teacher effectiveness. He is a former elementary-classroom teacher and reading teacher at the elementary, middle, and secondary levels. Dr. Blair has authored several college textbooks on reading methods and assessment including Principles and Practices of Teaching Reading, now in its tenth edition, textbooks in multicultural teacher education including New Teachers Performance-Based Guide to Culturally Diverse Classrooms, and Teaching Children to Read in Diverse Communities. For the past 14 years, he has operated a free Saturday morning Reading Camp during the academic year and a summer Reading Camp for children from low-income families at two community centers in the historic African-American Parramore Neighborhood in downtown Orlando.

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