Understanding Teaching — Practice

Q1. In which book did Elliot Eisner give four reasons to consider teaching as an art?

• A. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970)
• B. The Educational Imagination (1985)
• C. Teaching by Principles (2007)
• D. Models of Teaching (2004)

Q2. Treating teaching as a science largely owes its origin to the 20th-century influence of which thinker, whose ideas came to be called 'Herbartism'?

• A. John Dewey
• B. Johann Friedrich Herbart
• C. Jerome Bruner
• D. B. F. Skinner

Q3. According to McClellan (1999), the development of character has been an explicit aim of education ever since

• A. the emergence of common schools and the rise of systems of education
• B. the publication of Bloom's Taxonomy in 1956
• C. the introduction of the Right to Education Act 2009
• D. the founding of Vedic gurukuls in ancient India

Q4. The definition 'Learning is selecting the appropriate response and connecting it with the stimulus' is attributed to

• A. Skinner
• B. Guilford
• C. Thorndike
• D. Garret

Q5. Gagne's instructional process is described as a sequence of steps — gaining attention, informing learners of objectives, stimulating recall of prior knowledge, presenting the stimulus, providing learning guidance, eliciting performance, providing feedback, assessing performance, enhancing retention and transfer. How many steps does the model contain?

• A. 7
• B. 8
• C. 9
• D. 10

Q6. Who defined pedagogy as involving 'the organic relation between curriculum and teaching, and entailing study based, socially just and ethically sound practices'?

• A. Johann Friedrich Herbart
• B. John Dewey
• C. Paulo Freire
• D. Robert Gagne

Q7. Which thinker referred to his method of teaching as 'critical pedagogy'?

• A. Paulo Freire
• B. John Dewey
• C. Carl Rogers
• D. Bruce Joyce

Q8. B. Paul Thornton (2013), suggested three basic teaching styles. They are

• A. Authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire
• B. Directing, discussing, delegating
• C. Lecturing, demonstrating, project-based
• D. Behaviourist, cognitivist, constructivist

Q9. The statement 'School faculties and individual teachers create life in schools by models of teaching, they choose and create' is attributed to

• A. Paul D. Eggen
• B. Bruce Joyce
• C. John Dewey
• D. B. Paul Thornton

Q10. Within the Behaviour-Altering family of teaching models, 'Programmed' instruction — using CAI (computer-assisted instruction) — was first given by

• A. Carl Rogers
• B. B. F. Skinner
• C. Jerome Bruner
• D. William Gordon

Q11. Prof. H. E. Armstrong: 'The soul of the learning of science is exploration. The learners should explore the facts and principles themselves.' This defines which teaching method?

• A. Lecture method
• B. Demonstrative method
• C. Heuristic / Discovery method
• D. Inductive method

Q12. The project method, defined as 'a wholehearted purposeful activity proceeding in a social environment', was given by

• A. Kilpatrick
• B. Ausubel
• C. Gagne
• D. Bruner

Q13. Philip Jackson divided teaching into three phases. These three phases are

• A. Planning, organising, evaluating
• B. Pre-active, interactive, post-active
• C. Reception, application, extension
• D. Preparation, presentation, application

Q14. A class 7 teacher in Rampur starts a chapter on the human digestive system by first asking what happens to the chapati they ate at lunch. Which maxim of teaching is she following?

• A. Simple to complex
• B. Known to unknown
• C. Whole to part
• D. Empirical to rational

Q15. According to Hokanson and Hooper, there are five levels of teaching. In correct order, they are

• A. Reception, Application, Extension, Creation, Challenge
• B. Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis
• C. Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate
• D. Pre-active, Interactive, Post-active, Feedback, Revision