Organizing Teaching-Learning — Practice

Q1. The first basic consideration a teacher must weigh while selecting an instructional method is

• A. The brand of the textbook prescribed by the school
• B. The diversity of learners — their social, economic and intellectual backgrounds
• C. The salary structure of the teacher
• D. The colour of the classroom walls

Q2. For teaching subjects like science and mathematics, the most appropriate instructional method is

• A. Drill and practice method
• B. Inquiry method or problem solving method
• C. Pure lecture method only
• D. Memorisation method

Q3. A wise teacher, while selecting instructional approaches, is always

• A. Strict and authoritarian
• B. Tied to one fixed method of teaching
• C. Eclectic in selecting the instructional approaches
• D. Following only the lecture method

Q4. The word 'lecture' is derived from the Latin word 'lectus', which means

• A. That which is read
• B. That which is written
• C. That which is shouted
• D. That which is dramatised

Q5. A teacher of an upper-primary class in Rampur (ages 11-14) should refrain from heavy use of the lecture method because

• A. Lecture is illegal in India
• B. Lecture takes too long to prepare
• C. Up to secondary level children learn better through concrete experiences than through mere abstract presentations
• D. Lecture demands too many teaching aids

Q6. The demonstration method is psychologically sound because it follows which teaching maxim?

• A. Whole to part
• B. Concrete to abstract
• C. Abstract to concrete
• D. Difficult to easy

Q7. According to R.A. Singer (1964), team-teaching is an arrangement in which two or more teachers

• A. Take turns lecturing the same class without any planning together
• B. Cooperatively plan, teach and evaluate one or more class groups in an agreed teaching plan
• C. Compete with each other for the best results
• D. Replace each other every week without overlap

Q8. The credit for using the inquiry approach in teaching goes to

• A. B.F. Skinner in his book Verbal Behavior
• B. John Dewey in his publication How We Think
• C. Jean Piaget in The Psychology of the Child
• D. Lev Vygotsky in Thought and Language

Q9. Pedaste et al. (2015), propose how many general phases for inquiry-based learning?

• A. Three
• B. Four
• C. Five
• D. Seven

Q10. Gagne (1977) placed problem solving at which level in his hierarchy of learning?

• A. The lowest level — below signal learning
• B. The middle level — at concept learning
• C. The highest level of learning
• D. Outside the hierarchy

Q11. A class 7 science teacher in rural Bihar shows learners an event that puzzles them and makes them wonder why it occurred. This strategy is called

• A. A drill exercise
• B. A discrepant event
• C. A formal lecture
• D. A summative test

Q12. Four rules of brainstorming. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

• A. Focus on quantity — quantity breeds quality
• B. No criticism — all ideas are welcome
• C. Unusual ideas are welcome
• D. Only the teacher's ideas are recorded

Q13. According to Watson (1992), cooperative-learning groups are normally formed of how many members and of what nature?

• A. Two to seven members; heterogeneous in ability, gender and background
• B. Exactly twelve members; all of the same ability
• C. One member each — solo work
• D. Twenty or more members; homogeneous only

Q14. Aarti, a quiet class 7 student, rarely speaks in whole-class discussions. The best group activity to give her voice is

• A. Pure lecture from the teacher
• B. Think-Pair-Share, because it gives quieter learners a chance to share in pairs first
• C. A surprise oral test in front of the whole class
• D. Silent reading alone for the full period

Q15. Glickman (1991) to argue that effective teaching is

• A. A fixed set of generic practices applied to every lesson
• B. Not a set of generic practices but a set of context-driven decisions about teaching
• C. Only the lecture method delivered consistently
• D. Decided entirely by the textbook publisher