Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers Reviewer

Part II. Professional Education

B. Principles and Methods of Teaching and the Learning Process – Contemporary Principles, New Thrusts and Methods of teaching and the Learning Process.

Direction: Test yourself on Contemporary Principles, New Thrusts and Methods of teaching and the Learning Process. Answers are found the last exercise.

1.                 A statement of objectives, learning experience and the means of attaining results of teaching is called

a.     Procedure

b.     Lesson plan

c.      Outcomes

d.     Strategy

2.                 Teaching aids which the teachers uses to make learning meaningful, productive and interesting is known as:

a.     Device

b.     Technique

c.      Method

d.     Learning continuum

3.                 A teaching method proceeds which proceeds from the details of a lesson towards the generalization is called:

a.     Inductive

b.     Deductive

c.      Problem-solving

d.     Process

4.                 A teaching method which proceeds from a generalization, principle or rule is:

a.     Inductive

b.     Deductive

c.      Project

d.     Process

5.                 The recent approach in teaching Social Studies is called

a.     Discovery (inductive)

b.     Conceptual

c.      Process

d.     Formal-educational

6.                 A method of teaching which aptly applies to lessons needing experiments is called:

a.     Problem-solving

b.     Laboratory

c.      Observation

d.     Demonstration

7.                 What type of lesson is presented wherein the learner meets the learning experiments through understanding, analysis and generalizations of facts presented?

a.     Review

b.     Drill

c.      Developmental

d.     Deductive

8.                 What lesson is presented when the teacher takes up the previous learning experiences of the learners in a recognized pattern of presentation?

a.     Drill

b.     Developmental

c.      Review

d.     Discussion procedures

9.                 a lesson which aims to focalize skills to make them fixed to the point of mastery is

a.     problem-type

b.     drill

c.      review

d.     experimental

10.            The law of exercise is aptly applied in a

a.     Review lesson

b.     Assignment

c.      Drill lesson

d.     Check-up

11.            A type of review which presents the sum-total of all activities previously presented

a.     Integrated

b.     Debate-form

c.      Role-playing

d.     Lecture-form

12.            What recent technique calls for an acting out of a situation where the participants aim to uncover a problem of great importance to the class?

a.     Panel

b.     Debate-form

c.      Role-playing

d.     Lecture-form

13.            What technique of in-service training for teacher involves the identification and solution of common problems by them, thru live-in sessions, conferences, and speeches of consultants?

a.     Buzz session

b.     Workshop

c.      Seminar

d.     Professional meetings

14.            The non-verbal symbols used to maximize learning are referred to as

a.     Instructional devices

b.     Classrooms techniques

c.      Field trips

d.     Educational media

15.            Graphic material which are eye-catching and which use slogans and topics presented in bold letterings and strong colors to serve as reminders of standards and/or important events are called

a.     Posters

b.     Film strips

c.      Projector

d.     Objects

16.            What contemporary aid to teaching utilizes carefully-planned materials where each step of learning requires repetition and practice until such step in thoroughly learned?

a.     Programmed instruction

b.     Keypunching

c.      Educational televisions

d.     Educational hardwares

17.            The Stimulus-Response theory of learning which involves the association between a conditioned stimulus and a response thru the repeated presentation of the stimulus was advocated by whom?

a.     Edward Thorndike

b.     Ivan Pavlov

c.      Burrhus Skinner

d.     Wolfgang Kohler

18.            What plan of promoting pupils is committed to encouraging the learners to progress from grade to grade without needless prepetition

a.     Non-graded scheme

b.     Individualized

c.      Heterogeneous grouping

d.     Acceleration

19.            Differentiated assignments, tutorial and remedial work to would-be failures are not considered in the individualized instruction scheme.

a.     Yes

b.     No

c.      Maybe

d.     Sometimes

20.            A part of a daily lesson which serves as a carry-over for the next day what has been presented is the

a.     Review

b.     Drill

c.      Assignment or agreement

d.     Lesson proper

21.            A good learning environment is one

a.     Free from distractions

b.     Over decorated

c.      Disturbing noise

d.     Dilapidated

22.            The proper handling of the physical condition and instructional materials in the classroom to effect learning refers to

a.     Teaching method

b.     Classroom management

c.      Discipline grouping

d.     Guidance-oriented

23.            What refers to the process of directing immediate personal desires, interests or wishes for the purpose of achieving an effective action?

a.     Discipline

b.     Teaching

c.      Supervision

d.     Management

24.            What characterizes an effective type of discipline?

a.     Vital, sympathetic, humane

b.     Formal and strict

c.      Inhibited

d.     Imposed

25.            Which of these is not a quality of a god teacher?

a.     Mastery of the subject matter

b.     Broad background of liberal education

c.      Aims to enrich himself thru teaching

d.     Understands the nature of the learners

26.            Which of these is a personal qualification of a teacher?

a.     Resourceful, creative and intelligent

b.     Rich, capricious and luxurious

c.      Complaining, demanding and scornful

d.     Materialistic

27.            Which of these is included among the professional ethics of school teachers?

a.     Professional jealous

b.     Integrity

c.      Engaging in business pre-judicial to his teaching duties

d.     Gossip mongering

28.            What teaching method helps the learners draw generalization from a discipline with the end in view of applying the same similar situations in the future?

a.     Discovery approach

b.     Process approach

c.      Conceptual approach

d.     Problem-solving approach

29.            Which subject is in the elementary and secondary school levels mostly concerned with the study of societal problems and issues which are significant to the learners as members of society?

a.     Modern Mathematics

b.     Social Studies

c.      Filipino

d.     Character Education

30.            Which of these are considered with two essential dimensions of science teaching?

a.     Observing and inferring

b.     Seeing and observing

c.      Reading and researching

d.     Knowledge and performance

31.            Which of these is not a process in science teaching?

a.     Measurement

b.     Communication skill

c.      Inference

d.     Hypothesis

32.            Of the processes involve in the modern approach to science instruction, which one utilizes the most number of scientific processes.

a.     Prediction

b.     Experimentation

c.      Inference

d.     Hypothesis

33.            A radical philosopher he compared the human mind to the blank sheet (tabula rasa), giving importance to the role of experience and sense perception.

a.     John Locke

b.     Jean J. Rousseau

c.      B.I. Skinner

d.     Thomas Moore

34.            He divided man’s life span into five stages of growth and development, where each stage has its characteristic to be developed and respected, hence, emphasizing the need for self-expression in the young.

a.     Johann Baselow

b.     J. Jacques – Rousseau

c.      Emmanuel Kant

d.     Friedrich Froebel

35.            The philosophy which advocated the chain of causation where the past is linked to the present, and the present to the future.

a.     Buddhism

b.     Existentialism

c.      Islamism

d.     Taoism

36.            An ancient philosophy where the emphasis in educating the young is on what is accepted to be correct based on society’s standard.

a.     Realism

b.     Spiritualism

c.      Moralism

d.     Pragmatism

37.            An American philosopher who believed that the school should be regarded as a miniature community where the child can learn in a democratic atmosphere.

a.     William Jones

b.     John Dewey

c.      Charles Pierce

d.     Thomas Moore

38.            Activities which are based from sensory as a result of sensory stimulation

a.     Review

b.     Inhibition

c.      Cover-u on behavior

d.     Montessori approach

39.            Yoga a system of body exercise for control of the mind and general well-being originates from

a.     Hinduism

b.     Buddhism

c.      Wen

d.     Confucianism

40.            He profounded the Eastern philosophy that advocates the individual’s right to speak, to think and to behave with good intentions and which are not inimical to the rights of others

a.     Confucius

b.     Buddha

c.      Shinto

d.     Islam