Principles of Teaching

1. Among important characteristics for successful teaching, which connotes physical vigor,
energy, perseverance, ambition, industry, endurance, motivation, purposefulness
zealousness and quickness?
a. emotional stability
b. Drive
c. Reliability
d. Refinement
2. Who is the prime mover of the educational wheel in the teaching-learning process in
education?
a. Learner
b. Community
c. Favorable environment
d. Teacher
3. Which of the following is most highly motivating in lesson delivery?
a. discussing complex lessons
b. relating lessons to real-world situations
c. delivering lessons in a loud voice
d. using diagrams and charts
4. Why is it that educational objectives are arranged from simple to complex?
a. Objectives are broad and value laden statements that lead to the philosophy of
education.
b. each level is built upon and assumes acquisition of skills from the previous levels.
c. these are guidelines to be taught and learned where teachers and students
evaluate learning.
d. be idealistic and ambitious to begin with extravagant scheme for using taxonomy
in all levels
5. “At the end of the lesson, all learners must develop a positive attitude towards work”. Is
the given lesson outcome SMART?
a. Partly, since this belongs to the affective domain.
b. Yes, since it is a behavioral objective.
c. No, since this is not a specific and measurable.
d. yes, since this is result-oriented.
6. You are required to formulate a formula in a given sequence of numbers in the course
College Algebra, based on bloom's revised taxonomy, in which level of cognitive structure
or processing are you?
a. Creating
 b. Evaluating
c. applying
d. Analyzing
7. What does Analysis mean among all the thinking skills?
a. Comparing information for proper choices
b. selecting relevant and important information
c. Breaking down complex information
d. placing information in categories
8. Which of the following shows the highest level of understanding of concepts in his statistics
class?
a. Their recall of formula
b. their creating new idea
c. their grasp of meaning of the idea
d. their application of ideas to life
9. What is the basis for the selection and use of instructional materials?
a. Learning environment
b. Student interest
c. the three domains
d. alignment with intended learning outcomes
10. What is important to follow up in the proper use of instructional materials according to
Nagel’s acronym PPPF?
a. Student interest
b. student expectations
c. lesson objectives
d. media and materials
11. Among mistaken goals in the acceptance approach to discipline, what happens when
students seek to hurt others to make up for being hurt or rejected?
a. revenge seeking
b. power seeking
c. attention getting
d. withdrawal
12. A student who is having difficulty containing himself is asked to do an errand. By the time
he comes back, the rest of the class has calmed down. Which classroom management
technique was employed?
a. Walking around
b. antiseptic bouncing
c. signal interference
d. proximity control
13. For effective classroom management, when should a teacher undertake the task of setting
up to routine activities?
a. every homeroom day
b. on the very first day of school
c. Every day at the start of the lesson
d. as soon as the students have adjusted to their schedules
14. In Math, Teacher Rodel presents various examples of plane figures to his class. Afterward,
he asks the students to give the definition of each. What method did she use?
a. Inductive
b. Laboratory
c. Deductive
d. Expository
15. Teaching Tinikling to culture and arts education students becomes possible through the
use of ______
a. Inductive method
b. expository method
c. demonstration method
d. laboratory method
16. What is the importance of using a teaching method that focuses on why rather than how?
a. There is the best method
b. a typical one will be good for any subject
c. these methods should be standardized for different subjects
d. teaching methods should favor inquiry and problem solving
17. To ensure that the lesson will go on smoothly, Teacher Caryl listed down the steps she
will undertake together with those of her students. This practice relates to
a. Teaching style
b. teaching method
 c. teaching strategy
d. teaching technique
18. Which of the following is NOT true?
a. the lesson should be in a constant state of revision.
b. a good daily Lesson plan ensures a better discussion.
c. students should never see a teacher using a Lesson plan
d. all teachers, regardless of their experiences, should have a daily lesson.
19. The class of science education students is scheduled to perform an experiment on that
day. However, the chemicals are insufficient. What is the best method may be then used?
a. Project
b. Laboratory
c. Lecture
d. Demonstration
20. Pictures, models, and the like arouse students' interest in the day's topic. In what part of
the lesson should the given materials be presented?
a. Initiating Activities
b. Culminating Activities
c. Evaluation Activities
d. Developmental Activities
21. Which of the following is a divergent question?
a. How is water purified?
b. What are the parts of a sentence?
c. What is the most populated country in Asia?
d. What is the formula for getting the weight of an object?
22. What is the most effective way to distribute papers/materials in class?
a. Give pupils papers one by one
b. let the pupils come to the teacher one by one
c. ask a leader pupil to distribute the paper
d. instruct pupils to “Get one and pass”.
23. Which guideline in asking questions must Teacher Cloie use to develop reflective
thought and critical thinking among her learners?
a. Probing
 b. Prompting
c. Wait time
d. Redirection
24. Which of the following should Teacher James practice more if he wants to give his
students the opportunity to think critically?
a. Provide questions with clues
b. give questions that require analysis
c. give questions that deviate from the main topic
d. allow the children to ask questions during class discussions
25. Asking a series of questions to a student is a violation of which technique in
questioning?
a. Wait time
b. prompting questions
c. redirection
d. probing questions
26. Which of the following violates good discipline?
a. Practice
b. Attention
c. Modeling
d. punishment
27. Which of the following practices violates the guidelines in asking questions?
a. Avoid cognitive memory questions
b. call on pupils before asking questions
c. use probing questions to follow up on incomplete answers
d. sequence questions so that higher level questions build on the answers to lower
level
28. In Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives, the domains are stated from the lowest
to the highest level. Which of the following objectives belongs to the lowest level?
a. To identify the characters of the story
b. to differentiate active from passive voice
c. to give the available resources that could be recycled into useful things
d. to explain the procedure of changing improper fractions to mixed number
29. What recent technique of teaching calls for an acting out of a situation where the
participants aim to uncover a problem of great importance of the class?
a. Panel
b. debate form
c. role-playing
d. lecture-form
30. What technique of in-service training for teachers involves the identification and solution
to common problems by them through live-in sessions, conferences, and speeches of
consultants?
a. Buzz session
b. Workshop
c. Seminar
d. professional meetings
31. Asyhl excels in dancing and in certain sports. According to Gardner what intelligence is
dominant in Asyhl?
a. Bodily kinesthetic
b. Intrapersonal
c. Musical
d. Spatial
32. Logically, a teacher delegates some of her responsibilities to the whole class. He has an
attendance monitor, pupils in charge and distributing and collecting materials. The
teacher is good in ____
a. Classroom management
b. application of theories
c. development of values
d. instructional planning
33. It is stated that audio-visual aids complement teaching to make perception more quickly
and clearly. Why?
a. They present programmed information
b. they present multi-sensory experience
c. They provide verbal and symbolic experiences
d. they make information readily available
34. In your new class, you observed that pupils answer even when not called, they shout
“Ma’am” to get your attention, and laugh whenever someone commits mistakes. What
should you do to stop this malpractice?
 a. Involve the whole class in setting rules to be imposed for the class
b. Write the parents about their children misbehavior
c. send the pupils who are misbehaving to the guidance counselor
d. set the rules for the class to observe
35. During a typhoon, your room was one of those damaged and you were advised to hold
classes on the stage. What should you do to manage the class?
a. Create the most conducive and comfortable setting out of the situation
b. instruct other pupils not to loiter
c. post a sign “class going on” so as not to disrupt classes
d. arrange the pupils to the left side of the stage
36. You were required 8 hours to work although your official time is only six hours.
a. Leave the school when the principal is not watching
b. entertain the principal in her office
c. gossip with your close Co-teachers
d. find something useful to do within this group building to complete the required 8
hours
37. In formulating instructional objectives, the following must be observed EXCEPT
a. The instructional materials
b. The conditions
c. The behavior
d. Criterion of success
38. Which of the following is the best illustration of metacognition?
a. Mary Ann stays up late studying for a geography test. The following morning in
school, she is too tired to think straight during the test.
b. Rose Ann is studying for a history test. She knows that she has trouble with dates,
so she checks herself by giving herself a short quiz after each chapter.
c. Leah is studying for a spelling test. She writes each spelling word five times in her
nicest handwriting.
d. Ailyn is preparing to take the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT), so she checks
out an SAT preparation book from the local library and reads it from cover to
cover.

39. In the process of integrating technology in instruction, which of the following points to
the highest kind of cognitive skills desired?
a. Nurturing of class teamwork
b. Engendering meaningful learning
c. Introducing social learning
d. Developing metacognition
40. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance Approach to discipline, what happens when
students are not getting the recognition they desire, continually seek help, and refuse to
work unless the teacher hovers over them?
a. Attention getting
b. Withdrawal
c. Revenge seeking
d. Power seeking