Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers Reviewer

Part II. Professional Education

A. Foundation of Education: Sociological, Philosophical, Gen. and Educational Psychology, Legal and Ethical Laws.

Direction: From the choices given, select the correct answers. Answers key is found after the last item.

1.                 The right of an educational institution and its faculty to prescribe the             method/strategies of teaching refers to.

a.     Building style

b.     Choice of curriculum

c.      Academic freedom

d.     Co and extracurricular programs

2.                 The 1987 Constitution provides that religious instruction can be given

a.     With the students’ consent

b.     With the parent/guardian approval

c.      With the mayor’s permit

d.     With the school’s support

3.                 Public schools in the Philippines are the contribution of which colonizer?

a.     American

b.     British

c.      Japanese

d.     Spanish

4.                 Hardship allowance is given to a teacher when.

a.     She/he’s is assigned in a depressed area

b.     She/he’s given additional teaching load

c.      She/he’s in lahar area

d.     She/he’s assigned in hazardous area.

5.                 A review lesson to be an effective tool for mastery learning must be

a.     Repetition of old lesson

b.     The drill lesson

c.      Reteaching but presented in a different challenging way

d.     In a test format

6.                 The ability for quantitative learning of the relations of facts gotten from newspaper readings, letter-writing and the like is called:

a.     Functional literacy

b.     Adjustment learning

c.      Knowledge outcome

d.     Social competence

7.                 A teacher who gives a uniform assignment to be worked out by all learners in Arithmetic is not observing a characteristic of a good assignment. Which characteristic is overlooked?

a.     It should be definite

b.     It should be stimulating

c.      Is should emphasize the essential

d.     It should provide for individual differences

8.                 A good indication that effective classroom management exists in a class room is when:

a.     The learners are quiet

b.     There is minimum teacher control

c.      Everything in the room is in its proper order

d.     Students come in and out in orderly lines.

9.                 Encouraging competition between slow and superior students in class             work:

a.     Encourages the slow ones to work hard

b.     Encourages the bright ones to be better

c.      Provides wholesome learning experiences to all learners

d.     None of those given

10.            Respect for honest differences of opinions is one objective of:

a.     Self-actualization

b.     Human relationship

c.      Economic self-sufficiency

d.     Teach to the point of over-learning

11.            Which one of the following practices diminishes plateaus of learning?

a.     Frequent drills

b.     Organized review exercises

c.      Proper mental set

d.     Teach to the point of over-learning

12.            If a student asks a question which the teacher does not have a ready answer, the latter should:

a.     Dismiss the question as irrelevant

b.     Offer a bluff

c.      Admit the fact that he doesn’t know the answer

d.     Ask volunteers to answer the question and do research on it later.

13.            The hereditary traits acquired by a person in his lifetime;

a.     Are transmissible to his offsprings

b.     Reappear in his future grandchildren

c.      Have no influence on the offspring at all

d.     Become recessive traits

14.            When students are given a chance to settle differences of opinion by discussion, they develop:

a.     Fair play

b.     Tolerance

c.      Irritants

d.     Sociability

15.            The school’s responsibility towards teenagers “gang age” is:

a.     Provide the gang all the freedom it needs

b.     Gives classroom activities to give direction to out-of-school youth activities

c.      Supervising gang activities

d.     Set up norms of conduct for the members of the gang.

16.            In an intelligence test, a 13-year old girl got a score equivalent to that of a             15-year old. This means:

a.     That the girl must be accelerated

b.     That the girl is 2-years older mentally

c.      That the girl has a chronological age of 15

d.     That she has a mental age of 13.

17.            The goal of good teaching is to direct learning activity so that the learner.

a.     Reaches the level of achievement for the grade

b.     Reaches the level of achievement for at least the average child in the grade.

c.      Exceeds the average level of achievements in the grade

d.     Reaches the level of achievement which is possible within the limits of his ability.

18.            Through the proper use of multi-sensory aids, a learner may live realistically and vicariously in places remote from his immediate environment. These attests to the value of this aids to:

a.     Arouse interest

b.     Supplement knowledge

c.      Enlarge one’s environment

d.     Contribute to greater retention of learning

19.            The most relevant characteristics of the daily lesson plan in the integrated activity program is:

a.     It is detailed

b.     It is flexible

c.      It is comprehensive

d.     It is specific

20.            Which statement is not necessary to achieve the learner’s interest in a learning activity?

a.     The activity must lead to a practical end

b.     The activity must be within the ability of the learner

c.      The activity must fill a need recognized by the learner

d.     The learner must have the experience that will furnish the background for the activity.