1. Your approach to teaching is influenced by Howard Gardner’s MI Theory. What are you challenged to do?
I. To come up with 9 different ways of
approaching a lesson to cater to the 9 multiple intelligences at one time.
II. To develop all students’ skills in all
nine intelligences in one lesson
III. To provide varied activities that
acknowledge multiple intelligence of children.
A. I only
B. III only
C. II only
D. I and II only
2. The list of LET competencies upon which
your licensure examination is based is a product of five consultative workshops
with the academe in the entire country. What approach to LET competency
development was used?
A. Interactive
B. Objectivist
C. Rational
D. Collaborative
3. School curricula reflect worldwide
economic issues, political integration and industrialization. What do these
point to in curriculum development?
A. The trends toward globalization and localization
B. The trend toward participatory
curriculum development
C. The shift in the paradigm of curriculum
development from a process-oriented to a product-oriented one.
D. To trend towards the classical approach
to curriculum development
4. In lesson planning, is it advisable to
have a mental picture on how you are going to evaluate your students’ learning
as you write your lesson objectives?
A. Yes, because this will ensure valid evaluation tools since the
lesson objectives are the basis for evaluation.
B. Yes, because objectives and evaluation
are the first and last parts of a lesson plan.
C. No, because evaluation is quite
different from objectives.
D. No, because lesson objective
formulation gets derailed.
5. Which is a classroom application of
this principle: “Students learn more effectively when they elaborate on new
information.” Ask your students to _________.
A. write the principle five times
B. commit the principle to memory
C. identify an application of the principle
D. print the principle in big letters then
put in a place where you can read it time and again
6. Which is classroom application of the
theory on operant conditioning?
A. Make students learn by operating
manipulatives
B. Create a classroom atmosphere that
elicits relaxation
C. Help students see the connectedness of
facts, concepts and principles
D. Reinforce a good behavior to increase the likelihood that the
learner will repeat to the response.
7. Technology integration is using
“learning technologies to introduce, reinforce, supplement and extend skills.”
Which practice violates this statement?
A. Education TV is substitute for the teacher.
B. The globe is used to teach Planet Earth
C. The drill cards in table of
multiplication are used for lesson mastery.
D. Teacher writes notes on the chalkboard.
8. Alfred North Whitehead said: “In the
Garden of Eden, Adam saw the animals before he named them. In the traditional
system, children name the animals before they see them!” Whitehead refers to
the practice of teaching _____________.
A. in the abstract before the concrete
B. the concrete before the abstract
C. the concrete and the abstract
simultaneously
D. up to the concrete level only
9. “There is nothing in the mind which was
not first some way in the senses.” If you accept this dictum, as a teacher what
will you do?
I. Make use of multisensory aid to
learning
II. Go straight to symbolic teaching
III. Deliver a well prepared lecture
without notes.
A. I and III
B. I only
C. II only
D. I and II
10. You want to teach democracy in school
government by patterning procedures of the local and national elections. Which
technique will you use?
A. Simulation
B. Apprenticeship
C. Immersion
D. Practicum
11. There is a scarcity of materials in
remote barrios. As a creative and innovative teacher, what must you do?
A. Just use the lecture method
B. Prepare improvised materials
C. Buy commercially-made materials
D. Borrow materials from your co-teacher
12. Which are the most important concerns
about the use of ICT in instructions?
I. Developing appropriate curriculum
materials that allow students to construct meaning and develop knowledge
through the use of ICT.
II. Devising strategies to meaningfully
integrate technology into the curriculum.
III. Using pedagogical skills related to
technology.
IV. Providing teachers with skills for
using software applications.
A. I and III
B. II and III
C. III and IV
D. I, II, III and IV
13. Which of the following statements BEST
describes metacognition as a strategy for curriculum augmentation?
A. It is learning how to learn and thinking how about how one thinks.
B. It is learning strategies for success.
C. It is learning through interactions
with the environment.
D. It is learning through computer-aided
instructions.
14. Mrs. Vicharee wants to determine
immediately the learning difficulties of her students. Which of the following
do you expect her to undertake?
A. Require her students to prepare
portfolio.
B. Administer an achievement test.
C. Administer a diagnostic test.
D. Interview her students
15. Which statement(s) is/are NOT true
about teaching, learning and assessment?
I. Curriculum and assessment are a little
but related.
II. Assessment is separate from curriculum
and instruction.
III. Assessment is a basis for planning
instruction.
IV. The process of learning is as
important as the content of the curriculum.
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II
D. II and III
16. Instead of assigning our students to
discuss how to write a good editorial, ask them to write one for the school
organ. Which principle underlies this practice?
A. Promote meaningful connections between classroom subject matter and
real-world contexts.
B. Use assignments for instructional and
diagnostic purposes.
C. When giving assignment take into
account students’ development levels.
D. Make assignments challenging.
17. Which technique in cooperative
learning is used when new information is divided equally among all group
members and each student teaches his/her portion to the other group members?
A. Round table
B. Think-Pair-Share
C. Round robin
D. Jigsaw
18. When you teach skills that are
critical to the learning of the next topics, which should you employ?
A. Direct instruction and mastery learning
B. Exposition and class discussions
C. Mastery learning and discovery learning
D. Socratic method and peer tutoring
19. If you want your students to develop
firsthand knowledge pf physical or social phenomena, which should you use?
A. Mastery learning
B. Expository instruction
C. Discovery learning
D. Inquiry method
20. Schools are communities of learners
committed to pre-determined measurable quality criteria for student learning.
Which statement BEST describes schools that will ensure attainment of such
criteria?
A. Everyone in the school is accountable for student outcomes.
B. Families are encouraged to support and
participate in student learning experiences.
C. Regular evaluation of student
achievement is done by teachers and administration.
D. Teachers continually update themselves
by attending training programs.
21. With the passage of RA 9155, the
school head is given more power and authority over his/her school. That power
is for the school head to ___________.
A. transform his school into a high-performing one
B. make his stubborn faculty feel his
authority over them
C. set aside standard hiring procedures in
order to get those whom he believes are most capable
D. introduce changes as fast as he can
22. Ausubel recommends the use of visual
designed to bridge the gap between what the learners already know and what they
need to know. What visual is referred to?
A. Pictures
B. Concept maps
C. Comparison patterns
D. Overviews
23. The framework for creative thinking
includes the production of a great number of ideas or alternative solutions to
a problem. Secondly, the ideas produced must show a variety of possibilities
and different points of views. Together they are considered effective in
developing creativity among students. What does the framework include?
A. Problem solving and enhancing
B. Variety and strategy
C. Different approaches and strategies
D. Fluency and flexibility
24. Which activity does NOT help children
develop phonemic awareness?
A. Encouraging them to use invented
spelling
B. Reading a story to them until they are able to understand and retell
the story
C. Exposing them to literature that plays
with sounds of the language
D. Involving them in songs and games that
draw attention to the sounds of the language
25. If a reader is vocalizing his thoughts
to be able to understand the text, what metacognitive strategy is he using?
A. Reciprocal teaching
B. Think-Aloud strategy
C. Request procedure
D. Directed reading – Thinking activity
26. Which method illustrates this statement?
“That which can be thought of can be spoken, what can be spoken can be written
and then read.”
A. Alphabet
B. Language Experience Approach
C. K-W-L
D. Oral-Graphic Symbolic Language
27. What is the purpose of Directed
Reading – Thinking activity or DRTA?
A. To encourage students to model their
own thinking
B. To bridge the learning of oral language
and written language
C. To increase comprehension and
comprehension monitoring by predicting, generating questions, clarifying, and
summarizing
D. To encourage students to think about their reading by having them
make their predictions, confirm or reject them and revise their prediction as
the story unfolds.
28. A student is made to replace words
omitted in a message or a paragraph. This technique used for developing reading
comprehension is known as ____________.
A. structured method
B. negative mode
C. cloze procedure
D. developmental lesson
29. If you use Pygmallion effect to
explain why children coming from depressed areas cannot read, to which do you
attribute the poor reading performance of this particular group of children?
A. Poor expectations from depressed areas
B. Lack of motivation
C. Ineffective teaching methods
D. Lack of reading materials
30. With which of the following is poor
reading performance associated?
I. Use of rote memorization as reading
strategy
II. Relatively low-self-esteem
III. Deprived home environment
A. I, II and III
B. II and III
C. I and II
D. II
31. How can you make students intrinsically
motivated to work?
A. Give tasks that are too easy.
B. Help them in everything that they do.
C. Give varied, novel, and complex tasks.
D. Tell them that their task is too
difficult therefore they should do their best
32. When does praise become INEFFECTIVE?
When it ___________.
A. is given after the process is completed
B. specifies the particulars of the
accomplishment
C. attributes the student’s success to ability alone, or to factors
such as luck or easy task
D. makes the student appreciate how own
task-related behavior and think about problem solving
Read the following then answer question 83
to 87.
SITUATION: Ask to do a learning task, Joe
hesitates and says “Mahirap, Ayaw ko. ‘Di ko kaya!”
33. Which statement about Joe is CORRECT?
A. Has a low sense of self-efficacy
B. Has a high sense of self-efficacy
C. Has no sense of self-efficacy
D. Wants to be sure of his self-efficacy
34. Which drive can motivate him to
perform the learning task? The drive to _________.
A. achieve
B. have power
C. affiliate
D. to be free
35. To which factor can you attribute his
perceived inability to perform the task? To a factor ___________.
I. within him
II. outside him
III. which is stable
IV. within his control
A. I and IV
B. II and III
C. I only
D. IV only
36. Is it possible to motivate this type
of student?
A. Yes, he can do something with his ability.
B. Ye, he can change the nature of the
job.
C. No, it is impossible to motivate a
student who himself is not motivated.
D. No, motivation is totally dependent on
the student. No person outside him can influence him.
37. To which problem does the case of the
student allude?
I. Unmotivated students
II. Uncaring teachers
III. Extremely difficult learning task
IV. Incompetent teachers
A. I and III
B. I and II
C. II and III
D. I, II and III
38. Professor Barron once said: “We talk
of developing critical thinking among our students, but when they disagree with
us, we get offended.” To which Filipino trait does this point?
A. Inquisitiveness of the Filipino Youth
B. The lack of seriousness among Filipinos
C. Extreme authoritarianism
D. Lack of subjectivity
39. Teacher Hope begins a lesson on
tumbling by demonstrating front and back somersaults in slow motion and
physically guiding his students through the correct movements. As his students
become more skillful, he stands back from the mat and gives verbal feedback
about how to improve. With Vygotsky’s theory in mind, what did Teacher Hope do?
A. Guided participation
B. Peer interaction
C. Apprenticeship
D. Scaffolding
40. Teacher Xian asked his students to
describe how their families celebrate holidays. Students can discover that
people celebrate holidays differently. Which principle in cognitive development
governs Teacher Xian’s teaching activity?
A. Social interaction is essential for cognitive development.
B. Children often thin in different ways
at different ages.
C. Cognitive development involves relating
new information to prior knowledge.
D. Children actively construct their
knowledge.
41. The role of play in the pre-school and
early childhood years is that it ___________.
A. develops competitive spirit
B. separates reality from fantasy
C. develops the upper and lower limbs
D. increases imagination due to expanding knowledge and emotional range
42. Who of the following authors would
most help Teacher Nina to understand the underlying effects of poverty on
academic achievement?
A. Maslow
B. Dewey
C. Piaget
D. Kohlberg
43. In a well-known experiment,
psychologist frustrate young children by placing a wire fence between the
children and a pile of toys. When finally allowed to play with the toys, the
children smashed and destroyed them. Which reaction was demonstrated?
A. Rational aggression
B. Displaced aggression
C. Dormant aggression
D. Sustained aggression
44. In a social studies class, Teacher
Pitchee presents a morally ambiguous situation and asks students what they
would do. On whose theory is Teacher Pitchee’s technique based?
A. Bruner
B. Piaget
C. Kohlberg
D. Bandura
45. You are convinced that whenever a
student performs a desired behavior, provide reinforcement and so on the
student learns to perform the behavior on her own. On which principle is your
conviction based?
A. Cognitivism
B. Behaviorism
C. Constructivism
D. Environmentalism
46. William Glasser’s Control Theory
states that behavior is inspired by what satisfies a person’s want at any given
time. What then must a teacher do to motivate students to learn?
A. Make schoolwork relevant to student’s basic human needs.
B. Avoid giving assignments.
C. Make teaching-learning interactive.
D. Organize a curriculum in a spiral
manner.
47. Which psychological theory states that
the mind insist on finding patterns in things that contribute to the
development of insight?
A. Piaget’s psychology
B. Kohlberg’s psychology
C. Gestalt psychology
D. Bruner’s theory
48. When small children call all animals
“dogs”, what process is illustrated based on Piaget’s cognitive development
theory?
A. Conservation
B. Assimilation
C. Accommodation
D. Reversion
49. A person who had painful experiences
at the dentist’s office may become fearful at the mere sight of the dentist’s
office. Which theory can explain this?
A. Generalization
B. Classical conditioning
C. Operant conditioning
D. Attribution theory
50. If you have to develop in the students
a correct sense of right and wrong, with which should you be concerned
according to Freud?
A. Super-ego
B. Ego
C. Id
D. Super-ego and Ego