PRETEST: Methods and Strategies of Teaching

1. The following concepts refer to the implications of 21st Century education for teachers EXCEPT one. Which is the exception?
a. Teachers must instill curiosity in students because it is fundamental to lifelong learning.
b. Teachers must maintain students’ interest by helping them see the connection of what they learn for life with the real world.
c. Teachers must be consistent in how they teach
d. Teachers must excite learners to become even more resourceful so that they will continue to learn outside the formal school

2. Which thought activity or cognitive ability is tested in the essay question. Using Christian Ethics, how can population be managed?
a. Related cause and effect
b. Applying
c. Summarizing
d. Justifying

3. What are the possible causes of lack of reading comprehension skill among Grade 4 pupils?
I. The use of Mother-Tongue from grades 1-3
II. Inability to master the prerequisite skills in reading in the previous level
III. Reduced time allotment – for developing reading skills
IV. Non-contextualized strategies and reading materials to address indigenization

a. III and IV only

b. I and II only
c. I, II, III and IV
d. II and III only

4. Which instructional material is the best self-directed means of attaining functional literacy?
a. Audio-visual tools and films
b. Research survey facts and data
c. Community resources and real-life fields
d. Simulations laboratory apparatuses

5. The subject matter is the ASEAN Qualifications Framework (AQRF). The Asian History teacher teams up with the Economics teacher, the
Professional Education teacher for a thorough discussion of AQRF from the perspective of other disciplines. Which describes the Asian
History teacher’s pedagogical approach?
a. Reflective
b. Inquiry-Based
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c. Constructivist
d. Integrated

6. The new breed of teachers takes advantage of technology that enables them to understand, integrate, create, communicate and
compute printed and written materials. Which best describes the 21st Century teacher?
a. Multispecialist
b. Multiskilled
c. Multiliterate
d. Multitasked

7. In the Outcomes-based instruction, the key point is the student’s _______________.

a. ability to demonstrate learning
b. master lesson or unit content
c. assess his/her own learning
d. ability to pass written and performance tests
The correct answer is: ability to demonstrate learning

8. What type of lesson is presented wherein the learner meets the learning experience through understanding, analysis and generalizations
of facts presented?
a. Review
b. Deductive
c. Drill
d. Development
9. Of the following, which is most effective for influencing human emotion for retention and discovery of learning?
a. Emotional delivery of lessons
b. Telling of jokes in teaching
c. Use of inspirational tool (book, film, art, etc.)
d. Drills to augment retention

10. An integrated teaching approach is far more effective than teaching isolated bits of information. What then should teacher avoid?
a. Summarizing lesson
b. Teaching to the test
c. Use of problem-solving method
d. Knowledge utilization

11. The lesson presented in class must be selected and designed to respond to the learners’ life survival today and his career preparation in
the future. This implies which critical attribute of 21st century education?
a. Integrated and interdisciplinary
b. Relevant and real world
c. Global classrooms
d. Technologies and Multimedia

12. You are required to formulate your own philosophy of education in the course teaching profession, based on Bloom’s revised
taxonomy, in which level of cognitive structure or processing are you?
a. Creating
b. Analyzing
c. Evaluating
d. Applying

13. The K to 12 curriculum aims at raising the quality of Filipino learners and graduates while empowering them for lifelong learning that
requires functional literacy. Towards this end, the following are the perspective of this new curriculum EXCEPT:
a. Providing more focus on the total learning areas towards the development of metacognitive skills.
b. Implementing a undisciplinary approach in treating every facet and component of the curriculum
c. Providing experiential learning areas wherein learners can apply knowledge and life skills
d. Making values development integral across disciplines

14. To attain the 21st Century skills among learners, the following are relevant approaches and prospects that schools should impose. If
you arrange the following approaches based on effectiveness, in terms of developing 21st Century skills, which one comes last?
a. Expose them to a great deal of researches and other inquiry-based modalities using technology
b. Bring learners to the real world where actions is
c. Guide them in searching for truth and exploring their own learning experiences
d. Provide them information on direct instruction principles and perspectives

15. Which is the most appropriate assessment technique for this given learning outcome: “Solve problems in both conventional and
innovative ways as a 21st Century skill”.
a. Students will answer the survey questionnaire on problem-solving skill assessment.
b. Students will answer an essay on the topic: “A solution to Graft and Corruption”.
c. Students will make research capstone on developing a system that would reduce traffic along Sucat road.
d. Students will critique a documentary film on solutions to conflict in Mindanao

16. Educational objectives are arranged from simple to complex. Why is this?
a. Be idealistic and ambitious to begin with grandiose scheme for using taxonomy in all levels.
b. Each level is built upon and assumes acquisition of skills from the previous level.
c. These are guidelines to be taught and learned where teachers and students evaluate learning.
d. Objectives are broad and value-laden statements that lead to the philosophy of education.

17. Teacher Iah wants to evaluate an issue by having the group act out of jury trial. Which technique will she employ?
a. Panel
b. Simulation
c. Critiquing
d. Majority-rule decision making
18. The following are contexts and perspectives of 21st Century education as a paradigm shift from that of the 20th Century, EXCEPT one.
Which one is the exception?
a. Relevant and real-world
b. Integrated and interdisciplinary
c. Global classroom-oriented
d. Time-based

19. Which is/are characteristics of a culturally responsive teaching?

I. Crosses disciplines and cultures to engage learners while respecting their cultural integrity
II. Accommodates the dynamic mix of race, ethnicity, class, gender, region, religion, and family that contributes to every student's cultural
identity
III. Presents some cultures to be superior than others to improve inferior cultures

a. Ill only
b. II only
c. I and II
d. I and III

20. Which is the most recommended mode of instructional delivery today that addresses gaps on distance to increase learning
opportunities?
a. Blended Learning
b. Face-to-face meeting
c. Internet-based
d. Modular Approach

21. The design of tracks and strands in the senior high school curriculum that stresses exit competencies to be attained by every K to 12
completers strongly adheres to which 21st Century skill category?
a. Life and Career
b. Learning and Innovation
c. Information, Media and Technology
d. Leadership and Responsibility

22. To ensure lesson will go smoothly, Teacher Melvin listed down the steps he will undertake together with those of the students. This
practice relates to?
a. Teaching strategy
b. Teaching method
c. Teaching approach
d. Teaching technique

23. In the context of 21st Century education, the teachers and the learners are branded as digital immigrants and digital natives,
respectively. How will you differentiate them in terms of aspects?
a. Learning perspective: The teachers prefer experiencing, while the learners opt for intellectualizing
b. Manner of response: The teachers tend to reflect, while the learners usually react.
c. Thinking style: The teachers think randomly, while the learners, sequentially
d. Use of sense: The teachers utilize emotion and touch, while the learners, hearing and seeing

24. Of comprehension or thinking strategies, which is copying, underlining or shadowing learning material?
a. Complex rehearsal strategies
b. Complex elaboration strategies
c. Affective strategies
d. Basic elaboration strategies

25. In which part of the lesson does the learner give a synthesis of the things learned?
a. Motivation
b. Evaluation
c. Generalization
d. Application
26. If you were a criminal judge, what argument would you use to conclude that a public official is guilty of plunder based on evidence
(bank account, properties, assets) of unexplainable wealth?
a. Introspective
b. Inductive
c. Deductive
d. Metacognitive

27. Among important characteristics for successful teaching, which connotes physical vigor, energy, perseverance, ambition, industry,
endurance, motivation, purposefulness, zealousness and quickness?
a. Drive
b. Reliability
c. Refinement
d. Emotional Stability

28. If I intend my students to attain this competency: “effectively analyze and evaluate evidence, arguments, claims and beliefs” (Critical
Thinking and Problem Solving), which teaching strategy should I need to employ?

I. Socio-drama: The students will present a scene that portrays a current social issue
II. Dilemma: The students will examine and resolve a given dilemma and report to class their propositions
III. Jury trial: The teacher will lay down an issue and two students will act as defense lawyers who will weigh the two sides of it.
IV. Parliamentary procedure: The students will be given an issue in which they will express their thoughts using parliamentary procedures.

a. I and II only
b. I, II, III and IV
c. I, II and III
d. II, III and IV

29. The teacher instills to the students the Filipino value of respect for the elderly that is shown through the provision of spaces in the
building, granting of discount privileges and prioritizing them in the grocery stores and LRT stations. What literacy is being implied?
a. Social Literacy
b. Multicultural Literacy
c. Financial Literacy
d. Media Literacy

30. Which of the following activities in the curriculum help develop functional literacy to its optimum?

I. Industry Immersion. TechVoc students are sent to the food production company and trained in processing meat, a culminating activity in
their food technology subject.
II. Service Learning. The Education students render free teaching services to street kids on weekends as part of their Edukalye, an extension
program.
III. Research/ Capstone. The Criminology students share the findings of their study with the city government for consideration regarding
traffic reduction management.
IV. Experiential/Participatory Learning. AB Political Science students join a public forum where they lay down their insights and perspectives
on the given issue being discussed.

a. I, II, III and IV

b. II, III and IV
c. I, II and III
d. I, III and IV