COMPREHENSIVE

LET REVIEWER

Based on

NCBTS
and
TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS
(TOS)
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
BEEd & BSEd
Published by LORIMAR Publishing Inc.
Comprehensive Let Reviewer Based on NCBTS
and Table of Specifications (TOS)
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Copyright, 2011
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 PREFACE

This LET Reviewer is prepared to help you pass the LET. Mind you, not all who take the LET
pass it. In fact, majority of those who took the LET since 1996 failed. The national percentages of passing
the LET published in the national daily newspapers ranged from 15% to 36 %. This means that the
mortality rates have been very high – from 64% to 85%! In other words, for every ten (10) examinees, 6
to 8 examinees fail. Only 2 to 4 LET examinees pass.
Increase your chances in passing the LET! This is how.
1. Engage yourself in a review that is focused on the LET competencies. This LET Reviewer
will be of great help. There are some who prepare blindly for the LET. They have no
knowledge on the competencies on which they are tested. You are fortunate to have the Table
of Specifications with you. They are the focus of this LET Reviewer. Engage yourself in a
review that is focused in the LET competencies promulgated by the Board for Professional
Teachers, Professional Regulation Commission, in Resolution No. 10 series of 2009.
2. Master the competencies in all the tests. Test your mastery of the competencies by doing the
practice test in this Reviewer. Answer the test items given in this Reviewer to the best of your
ability. Don’t be afraid to commit mistakes. You will learn most from them.
If you want an honest evaluation of how much you have mastered, be true to yourself.
Don’t look at the Answer Keys as you are answering the test items. Refer to the Answer Keys
only after you have answered the test items.
If after checking your answers against the Answer Keys, you find out that you didn’t get
all the items correctly, this means that you have to do more reading. So, read some more.
Read as many references as you can in both print and electronic forms to the point of concept
mastery. You are given a list of references for additional reading in this Reviewer. It goes
without saying that you do not have to limit yourself to these references.
After further reading, go back to the test items which you did not get and answer them
once more. This is the way to mastery. If you do that for every competency, you are assured
of passing the LET!
3. Learn to shade answer sheets correctly. Many LET examinees fail the LET because they
don’t know how to shade their answer sheet correctly. Learn to do it with the use of the LET-
like answer sheets attached to this Reviewer.
4. Develop your reading comprehension skills in English. Except in the test items for Filipino in
General Education and in the specialization, all written test items are asked in English. If you
reading comprehension in English is excellent, you will have greater chances.
5. Most of all, put your mind and heart into your LET preparation. Right after graduation,
prepare the required documents for LET application and once you have them complete, apply
for LET at the nearest PRC office as early as possible. You have the list of required
documents in the PRC website. Avoid the rush. Avoid the long queue at PRC which happens
on the last days of filing for LET application. Take note, the deadline for LET application is
usually three months before the conduct of the LET.
Prepare months before the conduct of the LET. The months before the LET should be devoted to
serious study. Remember “no pain, no gain”. Or better still form William Penn, “no pain, no palm; no
thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”.
You can’t afford to take the LET a second time! Now that you have decided to take it, make a
promise and more than that, make a commitment to pass the LET!
 TABLE OF CONTENTS
page no.
1. Teaching Profession, Social Dimensions of Education,
Field Study, Practice Teaching …………………………………………………………1
1.1 Determine ways and means to ensure high standards of the teacher’s
personal and professional development……………………………………………….2
1.2 Describe the roles and responsibilities of the teacher in the local
and global community…………………………………………………………………6
1.3 Analyze the historical, economic, socio-cultural, geographical,
environmental, political and socio-psychological factors that influence
the school as an agent of change and the teacher as a facilitator of
learning………………………………………………………………………………..9
1.4 Interpret educational problems in the light of philosophical and legal
foundations of education……………………………………………………………..27
1.5 Apply the four pillars of learning – learning to know, learning to do,
learning to live together, learning to be – in responding to the
aspirations of the learner and the community………………………………………..44
1.6 Apply the ethical principles in the teacher’s personal life and in his/her
relationship with other people………………………………………………………..45
1.7 Reflect on the professional teacher’s accountability to learners’
performance and to the teacher’s total involvement in the teaching
profession…………………………………………………………………………….45

2. Principles of Teaching, Educational Technology,

Curriculum Development, Developmental Reading,
Field Study, Practice Teaching ………………………………………………………..58
2.1 Employ activities, teaching methods, instructional materials and
technology, classroom management techniques appropriate for a
chosen subject-area…………………………………………………………………..59
2.2 Apply appropriate approaches to lesson planning and curriculum
development………………………………………………………………………….90
2.3 Apply principles in the preparation and utilization of the conventional
and non-conventional technology as well as traditional and alternative
teaching strategies…………………………………………………………………..100
2.4 Align curriculum components to instruction and assessment………………………108
2.5 Distinguish the roles of stakeholders (students; teachers; employers;
parents; and community) in the delivery of the curriculum………………………...115
2.6 Use activities that enhance critical, creative and metacognitive
reading skills.. ……………………………………………………………………...118
2.7 Analyze extrinsic and intrinsic factors that affect reading performance…………...120
3. Facilitating Learning, Child and Adolescent Development………………………...125
3.1 Analyze the cognitive, metacognitive, motivational socio-cultural
factors that affect learning………………………………………………………….125
3.2 Apply theories of learning and development to the teaching-learning
process………………………………………………………………………………131
3.3 Draw educational implications of research findings related to child and
adolescent learning and development along with the biological,
linguistic, cognitive, social and psychological dimensions………………………...141
3.4 Organize a learning environment that is responsive to learner’s needs
and that promotes fairness among learners of various cultures, family
background, and gender…………………………………………………………….145

4. Assessment of Learning, Field Study, Practice Teaching…………………………..152

4.1 Apply principles in constructing traditional and alternative/authentic
forms of highly quality assessment…………………………………………………152
4.2 Interpret assessment results…………………………………………………………167
4.3 Utilize processed data and assessment results in reporting learners’
performance to improve teaching and learning…………………………………….174
4.4 Demonstrate skills in the use of techniques and tools is assessing
affective learning…………………………………………………………………...177
4.5 Assign students’ marks/ratings……………………………………………………..179