1.For quality professional development,
teachers must consider the NCBTS, which are the established for good teaching
in the Philippines. What is meant by the acronym NCBTS?
A. National Competency-Based Teacher Standards
B. National Competency-Based Teaching
Standards
C. National Competency Basic Teacher
Standards
D. National Competency Basic Teaching
Standards
2. You are very much interested in quality
professional development program for teachers. What characteristic should you
look for?
A. Depends on the availability of funds
B. Prescribed by top identified teachers’
needs
C. Responsive to identified teachers’ needs
D. Required for renewal of professional
license
3. How do you know a program for teachers’
professional development that meets high standards from one that does not?
Quality professional development helps teachers to ____________.
A. get promoted
B. get intrinsically motivated to grow continuously
C. earn MA units for ranking purposes
D. put themselves for above their students
4. A pupil whose mother is an OFW has been
absent for the past three days. Considering the teacher’s roles and
responsibilities, what action will you take?
A. Record the absences
B. Conduct home visitation
C. Report to the guidance counselor
D. Conduct action research
5. Global students will short burst of
energy. To maintain concentration, they require _________.
A. frequent reminder that they need to
concentrate
B. frequent and intermittent breaks
C. short and easy reading materials
D. music while studying
6. In the context of constructivist
learning transaction, the teacher as facilitator of learning engages in an
instruction that is __________.
A. flexible and creative
B. understanding and independent
C. formative and summative
D. democratic and independent
7. The wide acceptance of “bottom up”
management style has influenced schools to practice which management practice?
A. Prescription of what ought to be done
from the central office
B. Exclusion of politicians from the pool
of guest speakers during graduation exercises
C. Involvement of students, parents, teachers and community in school
planning
D. Allowing schools to do what they think
is best.
8. Widespread abuse of Mother Earth
prompted schools to teach sustainable development. Which one does this prove about
schools?
A. Environment factors influence the school as an agent of change.
B. Schools can easily integrate
sustainable development in their curriculum.
C. The curricula of schools are centered
on Mother Earth.
D. Sustainable development cannot be effectively
taught in the classrooms.
9. With an increasing variety of family
situations, a teacher needs to ________.
A. be careful not to inadvertently offend some students
B. encourage students to improve their
family situations
C. assume that all students want to know a
variety of family situations
D. broaden students’ realization of
different learning styles
10. When enrollment is small in the rural
elementary schools two or three grade levels are combined _________ class
taught by one teacher.
A. special
B. multicultural
C. multigrade
D. indigenous
11. Which is the most essential
characteristic of a Total Quality School model?
A. Clientele-focused
B. Empowerment
C. Involvement of stakeholders
D. Continuous improvement
12. Which of these school practices helps
create a positive learning climate?
A. Giving recognition or appreciation for
teachers/staff accomplishments
B. Giving clear expectations to the
academic community
C. Encouraging everyone to participate in accomplishing school goals
and objectives
D. Encouraging only high performing
teachers to apply for promotion
13. Which of the following provisions
guarantees accessible education for all?
A. Establish and maintain a system of free public education in the
elementary and high school levels.
B. Encourage non-formal, informal and
indigenous learning system, as well as self-learning, independent and
out-of-school study programs.
C. Provide and maintain a system of
scholarship grants, student loan programs, subsidies, and other incentives.
D. Establish, maintain and support a
complete, adequate and integrated system of education relevant to the needs of
the people and society.
14. The vision of basic education in BESRA
is to “make every Filipino functional literate.” Which of the following
operationally defines functional literacy?
A. Able to read, write and compute
B. Able to read, write letters, and solve
problems
C. Able to read, write, compute and apply these skills in their daily
lives
D. Able to read with understanding, write
one’s thoughts and compute word problems
15. As provided for in the Education Act
of 1982, how are the institutions of learning encouraged to set higher
standards of quality over the minimum required for state recognition?
A. Academic freedom
B. Continuing Professional Education
C. Granting of Special Permit
D. Voluntary accreditation
16. According to Plato, “the best life is
one contemplation of eternal truths.” What is an application of this thought in
the classroom?
A. Make students and teachers reflect on their learning.
B. Take reflective students as anti-social
and unmotivated.
C. Emphasize on the use of the five
senses.
D. Begin classes with prayer.
17. If your students appear to be more
interested in a topic outside your planned lesson for the day, you set your
lesson for that day and take the opportunity to discuss the topic particular
interest to your students. Strike the iron while it is hot! What philosophy
governs your actions?
A. Existentialism
B. Rationalism
C. Empiricism
D. Progressivism
Read the following and answer questions
#18-#20
SITUATION:
In
a faculty meeting, the principal told his teachers: We need to improve our
school performance in the National Achievement test. What should we do? The
teachers gave varied answers as follows:
1.
Let’s give incentives and reward to students who get a rating of 85%.
2.
Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance.
3.
Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning.
4.
Let’s make use of the experiential method of teaching.
18. In a faculty meeting, the principal
told his teachers: We need to improve our school performance in the National
Achievement test. What should we do? The teachers gave varied answers as
follows:
1.
Let’s give incentives and reward to students who get a rating of 85%.
2.
Let’s teach them to accept complete responsibility for their performance.
3.
Let’s make the school environment conducive for learning.
4.
Let’s make use of the experiential method of teaching.
On which educational philosophy is
response #1 anchored?
A. Existentialism
B. Progressivism
C. Behaviorism
D. Essentialism
19. Which response/s come/s from a
behaviorist?
A. #2 and #4
B. #1 and #3
C. #1 and #2
D. #3 and #4
20. If you lean toward a progressivist
philosophy, with which response do you agree?
A. #4
B. #2
C. #1
D. #3
21. Who would most likely agree with the
statement “To be truly ethical, a person must have the experience of sustained
responsibility for the welfare of others”?
A. Fowler
B. Schaie
C. Piaget
D. Kohlberg
22. Material development at the expense of
human development points to the need to do more ___________ in school.
A. learning to be
B. learning to do
C. learning to know
D. learning to live together
23. The specialization required of every
professional teacher for him/her to be competent is in line which pillar of
learning?
A. Learning to do
B. Learning to know
C. Learning to be
D. Learning to live together
24. Developing an understanding of life,
the world around us and other people is the concern which pillar of learning?
A. Learning to know
B. Learning to do
C. Learning to be
D. Learning to live together
25. Which is/are a violation of the
principle of respect?
I. Teacher Ana tells her students that
what Teacher Ben taught is wrong.
II. To retaliate, Teacher Ben advises
students not to attend Teacher Ana’s class
III. teacher Jose secretly gives way to a
special favor to add 2 points to the grade of Student A who is vying for
honors.
A. I and II
B. II and III
C. I, II, and III
D. I and III
26. What does the ethical principle of
content competence include?
I. Creative delivery of subject matter
II. Updated in content
III. Subject matter competence
IV. Competence in other related areas
A. II, III and IV
B. I, II and III
C. I, II, III and IV
D. I, III and IV
27. Teacher Dina is directed to pass an
undeserving student with a death threat. Which advice will a utilitarian give?
A. Pass the student. That will be of use to the student, his parents
and you.
B. Pass the student. Why suffer the
threat.
C. Don’t pass him. Live by your principle
of justice. You will get reward, if not in this life, in the next!
D. Don’t pass him. You surely will not
like someone to give you a death threat in order to pass.
28. Teacher Naty teaches in a remote
barrio. In order not to incur salary deduction, she does not file her leave of
absence every time she gets absent. Anyway, she uses that amount which is
supposed to be deducted from her salary on account of her absence to buy
pencils and paper for the poor pupils in her class. Is Teacher Naty right?
A. Yes, the poor students are benefited
B. No, the end does not justify the means
C. Yes, the amount is little compared to the millions of pesos stolen
by corrupt government officials.
D. Yes, she is not the only benefited by
her action.
29. A student often bullies his classmates
and misbehaves but he passes his periodic test and participates in class
activities. What is the responsibility of the teacher in this case?
A. Report the student’s behavior to the
principal
B. Deduct points for behavior from the
scholastic ratings
C. Refer the misbehavior to the Values Education/CERC teacher
D. Write an anecdotal record to the
guidance counselor
30. The Code of Ethics for Professional
Teacher stipulates that the educational institutions shall offer quality education
for all Filipino citizens. How is quality education defined in R.A. 9155?
A. Relevance and excellence of education are emphasized to meet the
needs and aspirations of an individual and society.
B. All school aged children should be
provided free and compulsory education.
C. Children with special needs should be
mainstreamed with regular classes in the public schools.
D. Public and private basic education
schools should provide relevant education.
31. To teach the democratic process to the
pupils, Roxas Elementary School decided that the election of class officers
shall be patterned after local elections. There were qualifications set of
candidates, limited period for campaign and rules for posting campaign
materials, etc. Which of the following did the school use?
A. Role playing
B. Simulation
C. Symposium
D.
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32. You want to have a small group
discussion in your class. Which topics will be best group discussion? Those
topics _________.
A. where a high degree of consensus among students does not yet exist
B. where a high degree of consensus among
students already exist
C. that are formally structured by text
D. that are factual
33. You combined several subject areas in
order to focus on a single concept for interdisciplinary teaching. Which
strategy did you use?
A. Problem-centered learning
B. Reading-writing activity
C. Thematic instruction
D. Unit method
34. Teacher Beda is the teacher of English
as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards, fill-in-the-blank sentences,
dialogues, dictations and writing exercises in teaching a lesson about grocery
shopping. Based on this information, which of the following is a valid
conclusion?
A. The teacher is teaching in a variety of ways because not all
students learn in the same manner.
B. The teacher wants make her teaching
easier by having less talk.
C. The teacher is emphasizing reading and
writing skills.
D. The teacher is applying Bloom’s
hierarchy of cognitive learning.
35. Which is/are effective method/s in
teaching students’ critical reading skills?
A. Interpret editorial and read and
interpret three different movie reviews
B. Read and interpret their different
movie reviews
C. Interpret editorials about a particular
subject from three different newspapers.
D. Evaluate the consistency of ideas expressed in an editorial
36. Teacher Henry gave his first-grade
class a page with a story in which pictures take the place of some words. Which
method did he use?
A. The rebus method
B. The whole language approach
C. The Spaulding method
D. The language experience approach
37. The collaborative approach includes
the major behaviors of listening, clarifying, presenting, problem-solving, and
_____________.
A. negotiating
B. evaluating
C. feedbacking
D. assessing
38. Which is an important factor in
differentiated instructional process?
A. Error analysis
B. Entry level indicators
C. Student-led conferences
D. Record keeping performance assessments
39. Which is the BEST way to determine if
a student has a mastery of the subject matter in the beginning of the school
year?
I. Administer a diagnostic test
II. Examine his portfolio assessment
III. Interview the former teacher
IV. Examine his grades
A. I and IV
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. I and II
40. Which seating arrangement has been
proven to be effective for learning?
A. Flexible to suit varied activities
B. Fixed arrangement to maximize
instructional time
C. A combination of fixed and flexible
arrangement
D. Any seat arrangement to suit varied
learning style
41. Teacher Kiana asked this question:
“What conclusion can you draw based on your observation?” Nobody raised a hand
so she asked another question: “Based on what you observe, what can you now say
about the reaction of plants to light?” Which did Teacher Kiana do?
A. Rephrasing
B. Redirecting
C. Repeating
D. Probing
42. Teacher Cai asked the class: “Is the
class answer correct? Student A said “No”. Teacher Cai asked the same student
“Why ‘no?” Which did Teacher Cai do?
A. Directing
B. Probing
C. Repeating
D. Rephrasing
43. If you want to hone students’
metacognitive ability, which is most fit?
A. Drill for mastery
B. Journal writing
C. Debate
D. Brainstorming
44. Which should you used more if you want
to counteract the spirit of destructive competition among your students?
A. Community involvement projects
B. Listening activities
C. Self-evaluation activities
D. Concept miming
45. You want present the characteristic
features of a constructivist approach. Which should you use?
A. Attribute wheel
B. Fishbone diagram
C. Venn diagram
D. Narrative frame
46. Which one appropriately describes your
lesson if you use the cognitive approach?
A. Promotes “find out for yourself” approach
B. lecture-dominated
C. Rote learning dominated
D. Highly directed teaching
47. If your approach to your lesson is
behaviorist, what features will dominate your lesson?
I. Drill
II. Reasoning
III. Lecturing
IV. Cooperative Learning
A. I, III, IV
B. I, II, III, IV
C. II only
D. I only
48. If you decide to develop a lesson the
constructivist’s way, what kind of learning environment must you create for you
to succeed?
A. Open and flexible
B. Structured
C. Authoritarian
D. Laissez Faire
49. If you are a constructivist, what assumptions
about learning and learner govern your thinking?
A. For learner to learn, knowledge should
be transmitted directly from teachers to learners.
B. Learners capable of formulating meaning of what is taught to them.
C. Learners empty receptacles waiting to
be filled.
D. Teachers are the only source of
knowledge
50. You want your students to develop the
ability to look at a problem from various perspective, which approach will be
done?
A. Affective approach
B. Behaviorist approach
C. Modular approach
D. Integrative approach