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EDU 312
PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES OF
TEACHING & TEACHING AS A PROFESSION
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CHAPTER ONE
TECHNIQUES TEACHING & TEACHIN PROFESSION
1. A _____ is a group of people in a learned occupation, the member of which agree to abide
by specified rules of conduct when practicing the profession
ANS: profession

2. A _____ is a vocation founded upon specialized education training

ANS: profession

3. A _____ is a disciplined group of individual who adhere to high ethical standards and
uphold themselves to, and are accepted by the public as possessing special knowledge and
skill in a widely recognized, organized body of learning
ANS: profession

4. _____ are based on scientific and philosophical facts acquired through scholarly endeavor
ANS: Professions

5. _____ are based on specialized skills

ANS: Professions
Example: Teachers, Nurses, Accountant, Dentist, Engineer etc

CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROFESSION
6. i. Upgrading of skill through professional development is also mandatory
ii. Education
iii. Professional Association
iv. Testing of competence
v. Licensed practitioners
vi. Skill based on theoretical knowledge
7. _____ simply means something to which one dedicates one’s life (one’s vocation or life’s
work)
ANS: Occupation

8. _____ focus on positions that require skills that maybe used in a number of different work
settings, allowing the individual with that skill set to move with relative ease from one
industry to another as the need arises
ANS: Occupation
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9. The word occupation and profession are _____
ANS: interchangeable
NOTE: The differences between occupation and profession can be stated with a
sample: designing a house to build a profession while constructing the house is an
occupation. A profession needs extensive training and specialized knowledge, an
occupation does not need any extensive training

10. A _____ can be called occupation when a person is paid for his particular skills, and his
deep knowledge
ANS: profession
Example: Teacher, Doctor, Engineers, Journalists etc.

11. People engaged in an _____ are not paid for their knowledge, but only for what they
produce
ANS: occupation
Example: Labourers, Bankers, Technicians etc.

12. People engage in a _____ must have undergo higher education

ANS: profession
NOTE: Professionals enjoy higher social studies than a person engaged in an
occupation. Profession is also guided through certain ethical codes, and regulated by
a certain statute.

13. _____ is a means of guiding students in securing the amount and quality of experience,
which will promote the optimum development of their potentials as human beings
ANS: Teaching

14. _____ involves three actors; the teacher, the students’ and the content to be learnt
ANS: Teaching

15. _____ an art or science, the fact still remain that it is process of impacting knowledge to
learners
ANS: Teaching

16. _____ as a process can mar or make a nation in terms of social political, economic, cultura l
and physical development
ANS: Teaching

17. The major objective of _____ is to bring change, which means to produce good and useful
citizens in the society
ANS: education
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CONCEPTS OF TEACHING
Teaching has four (4) concepts: instructing, indoctrinating, training and
conditioning
18. _____ is the process of passing information to subordinates/learners to carry out some
laid down activities by the instructor
ANS: Instructing

19. _____ is a process by which a person’s belief is defined

ANS: Indoctrination
NOTE: The process of indoctrination does not allow questioning, so it does not seek
to provide answers

20. Is meant for specific skills and professions

ANS: Training

21. _____ is a psychological experience in which we make people or animals depend on the
external influence
ANS: Conditioning

THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING

22. i. Respect for the worth and dignity of the individual
ii. Faith in man’s ability to make a rational decision
iii. Moral and spiritual participles in interpersonal and human relations
iv. Shave responsibility for the common good of society
v. Promotion of the physical, emotion and psychological development of all children and
vi. Acquisition of competencies necessary for self-reliance

23. A _____ is someone who carries out activities of educating or instructing or teaching
ANS: teacher

24. _____ impacts knowledge or skills

ANS: Teacher

25. _____ usually use a lesson plan to facilitate student learning providing a course of study
which covers a standardized curriculum
ANS: Teachers

26. _____ provide instructional craftsmanship or vocational training, the arts, religion or
spirituality, civics, community roles, or life skills
ANS: Teachers
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27. _____ is the art of making someone respond to discipline and instruction which in turn
makes the person efficient in some activity by repeated practice
ANS: Training

28. _____ simply stands that, _____ is not just an activity you engage in but it is an art that
has to measure the pedagogical knowledge of a person
ANS: Certification, teaching
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CHAPTER TWO
METHOD OF TEACHING
1. The means adopted by a teacher to transfer knowledge to learners is known as _____
ANS: method of teaching
2. _____ is defined as the overall strategies, processes, means and techniques employed by
a teacher to enable him achieve his objectives
ANS: Method of teaching
3. Methods of teaching exists in education which the strategies are meant to make teachers
succeed in their bid to disseminated _____
ANS: knowledge

4. When deciding what teaching _____ to use, a teacher needs to consider students
background, knowledge, environment and learning goals
ANS: method

5. _____ have different ways of absorbing information and of demonstrating their

knowledge
ANS: Students’

6. Teachers often use _____ which cater for multiple learning styles to help students retain
information and strengthen understanding
ANS: techniques

INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE METHOD OF TEACHING

7. The _____ method of teaching begins with particular examples, and from an examination
of this as a general rule of definition is established
ANS: inductive method

8. The _____ method is a general rule and applies to particular cases or examples
ANS: deductive
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUCTIVE METHOD
1. It proceeds from known to unknown
2. It proceeds from the particular to the general
3. It proceeds from the concrete to abstract
4. It is an analytic method or process
5. It is a method of discovery
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CHARACTERISTICS OF DEDUCTIVE METHOD
1. It starts from the general rule, definition of fundamental principles and proceeds to the
particular. These fundamental principles either expressed or understood are based upon
which the teacher proceeds
2. It is synthetic method or dogmatic assertion e.g. the Christian creed
3. It is a method of instruction
4. It proceeds from indefinite to definite

9. _____ method is a teacher centered method

ANS: Lecture
NOTE: It is a method whereby the teacher dominates the class

10. _____ method is the most popular method of teaching in the senior secondary schools
and also in the higher institutions
ANS: Lecture

11. Apart from teachers, clergymen as well as public commentators make use of _____
method to reach out to large audience
ANS: lecture

12. _____ method is a method that uses verbal explanation

ANS: Discussion

13. _____ method is a verbal exchange or interaction of view, opinion or idea between two or
more people
ANS: Discussion

14. In _____ method, the teacher introduces the topic and expects the students to make
contributions
ANS: discussion

15. _____ as a learning process implies that participation of students in the learning process
is by evaluating the points raised by the teacher
ANS: Discussion

16. The pragmatic approach to teaching is _____ method

ANS: demonstration

17. ______ method is a method that arrest students’ attention because it provides them with
the necessary visual experience, which may be necessary pre-requisites for further
understanding
ANS: Demonstration
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18. Demonstration method combines three key elements which are _____, _____ and _____

ANS: i. Telling/explaining how to do something or how a thing works

ii. Showing how to do something or how something works
iii. Being somebody

19. The radical departure to the conventional methods of limiting teaching- learning process
to the school or class work environment is _____ method
ANS: field trip or excursion

20. _____ method entails taking the students to places of interest as well as relevance to
students
ANS: Field trip or excursion

21. The teaching in which two or more teachers share responsibilities for a given
instructional programme with the same group of learners is called _____
ANS: team teaching

22. _____ teaching enables people with different subject area background to combine their
various skills in order to attain a common goal
ANS: Team

23. A teaching method that includes _____ is similar to testing

ANS: questioning

24. A teacher may ask a series of _____ to collect information of what students have learned
and what needs to be taught
ANS: questions

25. _____ is another application of questioning

ANS: Testing
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CHAPTER THREE
CONCEPT OF INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES
1. ____, ____, ____, ____, ____ and ____ are all based on certain theories of learning or
teaching models
ANS: Curriculum, syllabus, textbooks, teaching methods, instructional objectives
and modes of evaluation

2. ____ objective may be viewed from two sides i.e. teacher’s side and learner’s side
ANS: Instructional

3. _____ objectives can be said to mean noticeable behavioural changes that manifest in a
learner after being exposed to a particular instruction
ANS: Instructional

4. In order to set _____ objective effectively, a teacher must have a clear idea at the
beginning of a unit or course
ANS: instructional

5. _____ objectives act as ‘stop gaps’ between what is expected of a lesson and the extent to
which the lesson has gone
ANS: Instructional

CHARACTERISTICS OF INSTRUCTONAL OBJECTIVES

1. Learners’ expected behaviour
2. Learning conditions
3. Level of mastery

6. Three aspect of a learner are _____, _____, _____ and _____, importantly these must be
the focus of any purposeful education
ANS: knowledge, level, moral level and physical conditions

7. The taxonomical model of education objectives developed by Bloom and his associates
are _____, _____ and _____
ANS: cognitive, affective and psychomotor (domain)
NOTE: Cognitive domain is divided into six
i. Knowledge
ii. Comprehension
iii. Application
iv. Analysis
v. Synthesis
vi. Evaluation
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8. _____ domain is concerned with changes (growth) in interests, attitudes and values
ANS: Affective

9. _____ domain concern itself with levels of attainment of neuro-muscular coordination

ANS: Psychomotor

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CHAPTER FOUR
LESSON PREPARATION
1. _____ is the projected plan for the carrying out of those learning activities and the
provision of student’s activities which lead to the realization of the bringing of related
topics together
ANS: Lesson plan

2. ____ is the chief principal tool of a teacher

ANS: Lesson note
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CHAPTER FIVE
PLANNING OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM
1. Abioye (1998) defines _____ as a mapped out activities organized by the
school
ANS: curriculum

2. _____ is a course of study that intends to bring out a well-educated

balanced, focused and of course, a purposeful leader, who will be functional
and have the capacity to adapt to the changing phases and pace of his society
ANS: Curriculum

3. _____ planning in general involves an anticipatory decision making on the

teaching and learning activities in the school system
ANS: Curriculum

4. Planning the school _____ basically involves the process of collecting,

selecting and synchronizing relevant information in order to design organize
and implement those activities that will assist the leaner to attain the goals
ANS: curriculum

NOTE: Curriculum planning can therefore be seen as the decision making process
that determines the nature and the design of the curriculum, while the curriculum
development is the procedure for carrying out the planning process

5. Factors affecting Curriculum Planning

i. The society
ii. The learners
iii. Curriculum goals

6. _____ experience refers to the interaction between the learners and the
external conditions of the environment which that learner can react to
ANS: Learning

7. The approach of _____ deals with the process of building on all those simple
ideas learnt at the lower level of education and at the higher level
ANS: integration
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8. _____ could be seen as a way of appraising the attained in a particular
curriculum
ANS: Evaluation
NOTE: there are three domains in teaching – cognitive, affective and psychomotor

COGNITIVE DOMAIN
Cognitive domain: this domain take cognizance of six categories in which evaluation
can have an interplay. The categories are knowledge, understanding, application,
analysis, synthesis and evaluation

9. Recalling or bringing to mind the necessary information is _____ i.e. remembering

ANS: knowledge

10. Translating learned materials from one form to the other is _____
ANS: understanding

11. Ability to use learned materials in a new and concrete environment is _____
ANS: application

12. Ability to break down learned materials into its smaller component is _____
ANS: analysis

13. Ability to build up new materials from those given is _____

ANS: synthesis

14. Ability to pass judgement on available material is _____

ANS: evaluation

AFFECTIVE DOMAIN
Affective Domain: this has to do with the values, beliefs and social environment of the
learners.

The social environment: the learner’s environment determines to a great extent his way
of life. Is he obedient in school? Does he behave well in a group? All these help to
determine his social relationship

The value: the importance attached to a particular issue such as schooling, group work,
love for progress etc.
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The Beliefs: a learner may show belief in a particular phenomenon such as the culture of
his environment, the vocation of his people etc. all of which go a long way in affecting
his perception about life

Emotional adjustment: this indicates the learner’s reaction to his condition e.g. his
reaction to quarrels from his home, his reaction to his parent’s affluence or poverty etc.

PSYCHOMOTOR DOMAIN
Psychomotor domain: this aspect deals with the learners’ ability for manipulative skills
and movement e.g. writing smoothly and legibly, drawing, operating machines etc.

TECHNIQUES OF EVALUATION
Techniques for evaluation are; tests, observation, questionnaire and interview

15. _____ are written evaluation conducted at a given time in order to determine learner’s
aptitude, intelligence as well as achievement
ANS: Test
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CHAPTER SIX
CONCEPT OF EVALUATION
1. EBO means _____
ANS: Expected Behavioural Outcome

2. _____ is a synthesis of the various dimensions of pupils’ growth by identifying areas of

interrelationship among the three domains of learning
ANS: Evaluation

3. Wale (2009) sees _____ as the assessment of the extent to which teaching learning
process has been gratified or realized
ANS: evaluation
NOTE: Evaluation determines the success or otherwise of teaching and learning
process

4. Evaluation takes place in three different stages which are _____, _____ and _____
ANS: pre-lesson, in-lesson and post-lesson

5. _____ enables the teacher to know how far the pupils/students understand the lesson
taught and how the set objective has been achieved
ANS: Evaluation
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CHAPTER SEVEN
THEORIES OF LEARNING

1. _____ is a process that depends on experience and the leads to long-term change in
behaviour potential
ANS: Learning

2. _____ is seeing as what is to be done and how to do it

ANS: Insight

NOTE: Insight is termed to be ‘seeing to’ understanding or apprehending a problem,

process or situation, foresight is insight as its very best
3. _____ define _____ as better gasp or understanding of the problems or situation gained
ANS: Psychologists, insight

NOTE: skills first learned through insight are then perfected through practice e.g dancing
Skill is then achieved through practice

4. _____ rate differs from one person to the other depending on the intellectual capability
and seriousness of the learner
ANS: Learning

NOTE: some learners are fast learners, some are average and others are slow learners.
For effective learning to take place, teacher needs to identify the group each child
belongs to in order to know the method to adopt in teaching the learners
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CHAPTER EIGHT
MOTIVATION, REWARD AND PUNISHMENT

1. _____ is an interactive process that call for readiness on the parts of both the learners the
learned (students and teachers)
ANS: Education

2. _____ can be internal (intrinsic) or external (extrinsic)

ANS: Motivation

3. _____ motivation can be described as an inner urge or drive from an individual (the
learners)
ANS: Internal or Intrinsic

4. _____ motivation is described as a drive from external sources

ANS: External or Extrinsic

5. _____ is defined as the forces that account for the arousal, selection, direction and
continuation of behaviour
ANS: Motivation

6. _____ is an inner state that energizes, activates or moves (hence, motivation) and that
directs or channel behaviour towards goals
ANS: Motive

7. _____ is the process of influencing or stimulating a person to take action that will
accomplish desired goals
ANS: Motivation

8. _____ is defined as the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a
desired goal
ANS: Motivation

THEORIES OF MOTIVATION

9. The traditional theory of motivation emerged from work of Frederic Winslow popularly
called the _____
ANS: scientific management
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THEORY 1: Taylor observed that money is the primary motivator, he therefore concluded that
the real wage or wages are not incentives and that people working hard of harder than others in
the organization were not.
THEORY 2: McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. The essence of this situation are more likely
to want to learn than other. Theory is to provide managers or leaders with a thorough
understanding of the different kind of behavior that exist within their organization
THEORY 3: McClelland’s Need Theory: he identified the types of basic motivation needs. He
classified these as need for power (N/PWR), need for affiliation (N/AFF) and need for
achievement (ACH)
THEORY 4: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory: needs with the hierarchy of human needs
that enhance motivation. Starting it is in ascending order from the lowest to the highest needs
thus
Physiological needs
Safety needs
Social needs
Esteem needs
Self-Actualization needs

10. The _____ theory often called operant conditioning or behavioural modification deals
with how the consequences of a past action influence future actions in a cyclical learning
process
ANS: reinforcement

11. _____ conditioning interpretations of learning may help reveal why some students react
favaourbly to particular subjects and dislike others e.g. math
ANS: Operant

12. _____ goals structures are characterized by students working together to accomplish
shared goals e.g. group presentation
ANS: Cooperative

13. According to Oxford dictionary, _____ is an act or a way of making somebody suffer
because they have done something wrong
ANS: punishment

14. _____ is refers to the application of an undesirable reinforce to an undesirable behaviour

ANS: Punishment
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15. _____ is an act meant to punish somebody for something they have done
ANS: Discipline

16. ____ is adopted to correct the occurrence of an undesired stimulus

ANS: Punishment/discipline
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CHAPTER NINE
SCHOOL RECORDS
1. The act of keeping _____ by individuals, government, schools and the society at large is
largely for reference purpose
ANS: records

2. Okiki (2010). The world is moving toward being paperless and that we need to be
pragmatic in the act of _____ keeping by adopting the computerized system of recording
events
ANS: record

3. Generally, _____ are paper, written or printed books, documents or drawings maps or
plans, photograph, microfilms or any copy there of which has been made or is required
by law to be received for filing, indexing or reproducing by an officer in connection with
the transaction of public business
ANS: records

4. School _____ are primary sources of history for the school

ANS: records

5. School _____ are veritable source of information for assessing student’s and teachers’
performance and administrative effectiveness and efficiency of the school sytem
ANS: records
CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOL RECORDS
i. Completeness
ii. Truthfulness
iii. Availability
iv. Usability

6. The book mainly kept and used by the principal or head teacher of a school to record the
important events in the school is ______
ANS: log book

Example: arrival of a new teacher and departure of another one in the school, the
absence of a teacher in the school, records of death among the teachers’, pupils or
students, records of pupil with special academic performance that are given prizes
annually are also recorded in the log book
7. The book used for keeping daily attendance of pupils in the school is _____
ANS: attendance register
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8. The book for recording the names of past and present student/pupil of a school is _____
ANS: admission register

9. The book which the names of all important visitors to school are recorded is _____
ANS: visitors book

10. The book used to record severe offence by the student is _____
ANS: punishment book

11. The breakdown of syllabus into teachable units is _____

ANS: scheme of work

12. The book teachers record the marks scored by the pupils in the various tests and
examination conducted in the school is _____
ANS: teachers’ mark book

13. The record book that shows the name of subject teacher and how punctual the teacher
comes to class, the topic he/she teaches and the time he/she leaves the class is _____
ANS: attendance register

14. The book that contains records of consumable and non-consumable stock in the school is
_____
ANS: stock book

Consumable – Pencils, pen exercise book, chalk, ink etc.

Non-consumable – farm tools, projectors, tape recorder, furniture etc.

15. The book that shows the name of student who fall sick with date, nature of the sickness,
the medication given, reason for the treatment and the available medical officer is _____
ANS: health record book

16. The book that contains the exact record of the minutes of staff meetings is _____
ANS: staff meeting minutes’ books

17. The book that contains information on the where about of the teacher during the school
hour is _____
ANS: staff movement book

18. The book that contains the name of the teacher with his registration number,
qualifications, date of appointment is _____
ANS: staff record card
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19. The book that gives period(s) in which each subject will be taught by each subject teacher
at a particular class scheduled is _____
ANS: school time – table

20. The book teachers indicate their time of arrival and departure in the school daily is _____
ANS: time book or duty attendance

21. The book containing comprehensive detail of the income and expenditure of each unit of
the school is _____
ANS: school budget

22. The book that contains adequate information of members of staff (academic and non-
academic) which includes names, qualifications, salary and level etc. is _____
ANS: staff records

23. _____ is a record of constituted authority official’s summary of the standard of the school
ANS: Inspector’s reports

24. The circular approved by the ministry of education and sent to each school which
contains opening date of schools, holidays to be observed as well as the vacation period is
_____
ANS: school calendar

CHALLENGES OF KEEPING SCHOOL RECORDS

1. Negative manipulation
2. Storage problem
3. Relevance problem
4. Inadequacy and non-updating of school records
5. Tracking and referencing bottleneck
6. Reliability
7. Funding

25. RAM means _____

ANS: Random Access Memory

26. ROM means ______

ANS: Read Only Memory

27. SAS means _____

ANS: School Automation Software
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CHAPTER TEN
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
1. _____ development is a product of maturation and learnings
ANS: Emotional

2. _____ and _____ are two broadly classification of emotion

ANS: Positive and negative
Example: Positive emotion – pride, contentment, fondness, infatuation
Negative emotion: fear, sadness, anger, loneliness, annoyance etc.

3. _____ is refers to as the way in which people differ in their behaviour

ANS: Individual differences

4. Oyeyeme (1999) define _____ as the characteristics that distinguish one person from
another
ANS: individual differences

5. _____ is refers to how uniquely and differently the individual is made in behaviour, size,
growth and thought
ANS: Individual differences

6. The stage when the child is interested in putting everything into his mouth is _____
ANS: oral stage

7. The focus of a pleasure is in the anus between 18 months and 2-4 year which the child
derives pleasure in defecating is _____
ANS: anal stage

8. The child focusses his attention on genitalia, fondling and caressing his/her sex organs is
____ stage
ANS: phallic

9. The interest of exploiting things and learning and there is lack of sexual interest from age
5,6 or 7 to puberty is ______
ANS: latent stage

10. _____ begins at puberty, which marks the emergence of adolescence

ANS: Genital stage
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11. According to Alder _____ are indication of a single drive which is the motivating force
behind all human behaviour
ANS: individual differences

THE SOURCES OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

1. Genetics factors/heredity
2. Environmental factors
3. Cultural background
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
WAY FORWARD ON THE PROFESSIONAL STATUS OF TEACHING
1. _____ is generally described as the practice of imparting information
ANS: Teaching

2. _____ a vocation, a career and a profession in which someone who has been sufficiently
exposed to the theory and practice of education over time, is authorized to help learners
to acquire desirable habits, skills, attitudes, values and knowledge
ANS: Teaching

3. The act of _____, is the attempt made by someone to effect a change in the behaviour of
someone else who is otherwise called the learner
ANS: teaching

4. A professionally trained _____ is that a person who has studied for a stipulated period in
a recognized institution
ANS: teacher

TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTION INCLUDES

1. Colleges of Education
2. National Teachers’ Institute (NTI)
3. Faculties of Education and
4. Institute of Education in the Nigerian Universities
The mode of study could be either full-time or part time

ON COMPLETION OF THE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME

1. Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE)
2. Bachelor of Education (B.Ed)
3. Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE)
4. Master of Education (M.Ed)

5. NUT means _____

ANS: National Union of Teachers
NOTE: it is only for the teacher of primary and secondary level of education

6. COEASU means ______

ANS: College of Education Academic Staff Union

7. ASUU means _____

ANS: Academic Staff Union of Universities
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8. TRCN means _____
ANS: Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria

9. NERDC means ______

ANS: Nigeria Education Research and Development Council

10. NCCE means _____

ANS: National Commission for Colleges of Education

11. NBTE means _____

ANS: National Board for Technical Education

12. NUC means _____

ANS: National University Commission
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CHAPTER TWELVE
TONE OF SCHOOL
1. The term ‘tone of school’ mean _____ in school
ANS: discipline

2. _____ brings about self-control, orderliness, obedience and power of cooperation in

school
ANS: Discipline

3. Bad _____ is that state in which the work or study of a class cannot continue well
ANS: discipline

4. _____ discipline is chaotic and anarchical

ANS: Bad

5. The _____ is the head of the school legislators

ANS: head teacher

6. Good _____ is the doing of the right thing at the proper time, place and in proper manner
ANS: order
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

1. PTA means _____

ANS: Parents – Teachers’ Association

2. A _____ is an organization that provides an opportunity for parents and teachers to meet
together for the discussion of matters affecting the schools and solving of problems
ANS: Parents – Teachers’ Association

3. A _____ is a society which promotes mutual understanding and cooperation between

school and home
ANS: Parents – Teachers’ Association

DUTIES OF THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

1. Organizing
2. Teaching
3. Supervising
4. Distribution of teachers
5. Training of probationary teachers
6. The staff meeting
7. Progress and promotion
8. Reports
9. School account
10. The school time-table

THE VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH THE HEAD OF SCHOOL CAN ENLIST THE
INTERESTS OF THE PARENTS
1. Exhibition of work - the results of the work of the students are to be presented to the
parents for inspection
2. Visits: occasional visit to the home of the pupils by the teachers is also advisable. This
will make the teacher know how to attend to the NEEDS AND WANTS of the student
3. Open day for parent
4. Closing programme
5. Health society
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PAST QUESTIONS
1. Teaching is best described as

a. An all comer affair b. a universal activities c. a rigorous, deliberate, planned and

conscious exercise d. a synonym of instruction, training, indoctrination and propaganda

2. Teaching involves all the under listed EXCEPT

a. Establishing the entry behavior of the learner b. conveying the teacher as a reservoir of
knowledge c. guiding the learning activities d. evaluating the learning outcomes

3. Which of the following is NOT a component of teaching as a process of communication?

a. Objectives b. Teacher c. Learner d. content

4. The anticipated learning out comes in classroom instruction is known as

a. Behavioural objectives b. broad objectives c. goals d. benchmark

5. What makes instructional objectives measureable

a. Amount of time b. Amount of materials c. Amount of resources d. Amount of knowledge

6. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain of learning respectively implies

a. Knowledge, feelings and movement of the body b. Knowledge, attitude and manipula tio n
c. Cognition, emotion and manipulation d. Intelligence, emotions and movement of the
body

7. It relates to recall of factual information. This statement describes

a. Knowledge b. comprehension c. application d. analysis

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8. This relates to acceptance of worth attached to an object, idea or concept. This assertion
describes

a. Responding b. valuing c. organization

9. Objectives and evaluation are complementary in the following ways EXCEPT

a. Objectives provide direction for evaluation for evaluation b. evaluation improves the
quality of objectives c. objectives protect the quality of evaluation d. evaluation validates
instructional objectives

10. One of these is not a guide line for effective questioning technique

a. Questions should be posted at the entire class b. Questions should not be ambiguous c.
Chorus answers to questions should not be entertained d. Questions should be of highe r
order level of cognition

11. Which of these is NOT an appropriate teaching method at primary school

a. Lecture method b. Discussion method c. Discovery method d. Demonstration method

12. Which of these is not a teaching method

a. Problem-solving b. Team teaching c. Fieldtrip d. Teaching for cooperative learning

13. It provides first-hand experience of what is taught in the classroom. This statement relates
to

a. Play way method b. fieldtrip method c. discussion method d. team teaching method

14. The two types of motivation are

a. Extrinsic and intrinsic b. extrinsic and intrinsic c. exterior and interior d. within and
without
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15. In the theory of motivation, as one need is gratified

a. Individuals becomes satisfied b. other needs are gratified c. a higher need comes up d.
individual becomes accepted

16. One underlying assumption of motivation is that the previously gratified need becomes
secondary and

a. So many is always in a state of need b. many others become primary and complex c.
too in consequential to warrant and special attention d. insignificant to other people

17. He is enthusiastic to learn, can handle abstractions and always ready to take up challenges.
The above perfectly describes

a. An emotional learner b. a well-motivated learner c. a high potential learner d. a learner

with level of cognition

18. According to Maslow human needs are categorized into

a. Growth and development needs b. growth a deficiency needs c. social and basic needs d.
physical and spiritual needs

19. Need for love, affection and recognition indicate

a. Psychological needs b. safety needs c. social needs d. self-esteem needs

20. The peak of Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of need is

a. self-actualization needs b. self-esteem needs c. social needs d. safety needs

21. The application of theories of motivation to classroom instruction involves

a. The use of negative reinforcement only b. the use of positive reinforcement only c. efforts
from teacher making his subject interesting d. indiscriminate use of incentives by the
teacher
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22. Profession differs from occupation in that

a. Occupation is subsumed in profession b. profession is subsumed in occupation c.

teaching is a profession and not an occupation d. teaching is an occupation and not a
profession

23. To what extent can we say teaching is a profession?

a. Teachers are well respected and held in high esteem b. teaching is an exclusive preserve of
teachers c. teaching requires expertise, skills and competencies d. teaching enjoys juicy
conditions of service

24. How best can we describe teaching in Nigeria?

a. Teaching is a profession b. Teaching is not a profession (c) teaching is an occupation (d)

teaching is a halfway profession

25. The teaching method that involves continuous delivery of content by the teacher is

a. Discussion method (b) lecture method (c) dramatization method (d) demonstratio n
method

26. The teaching method in which two or more teachers are involved in the teaching of a
subject according to their expertise and competence is known as

a. Play way method (b) concept mapping (c) team teaching method (d) teaching for
cooperative learning

27. Which of these is not true of motivation?

a. Every human being is a way in state of need (b) the state of complete satisfaction is
unattainable (c) all human needs can be satisfied (d) as one need is gratified a higher need
comes up
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28. Which of these is NOT an advantage of questioning technique in classroom instruction?

a. It makes the teacher more relax and free from stress (b) it promotes meaningf ul
classroom dialogue (c) it makes the learners more alert in the classroom (d) it helps to keep
teaching- learning process on track

29. Why should a teacher not engage himself/herself in the practice of repeating the questions
asked in classroom instruction?

a. To make the teacher save energy (b) to make the learners develop group listening skills
(c) to punish the learners for not listening (d) to make the teacher command respect from
the learners

30. All the following EXCEPT one are appropriate question for synthesis as a cognition level

a. Integrated (b) interpret (c) modify (d) create

31. Which of the following is the lowest level of cognition?

a. Evaluation (b) application (c) synthesis (d) knowledge

32. The highest of level of psycho-motor is

a. Basic moment (b) physical ability (c) non discursive communication (d) perceptual ability

33. The willingness of the learner to react to the stimulus perceive is a description of

a. Organization (b) valuing (c) responding (d) receiving

34. What, label, collect, when and identify are appropriate clue for

a. Knowledge (b) perception (c) compression (d) analysis

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35. Adopt, enforce, preserve, endorse, contribute are appropriate verbs suitable for description
of

a. Receiving b. responding c. valuing d. organization

36. Which of the following is NOT a quality of a good question?

a. It must be clearly stated (b) it must be in sequence (c) it must be carried in audible voice
(d) it must be a pathetic

37. Teaching, driving, medicine, engineering, farming and blacksmithing are better described
as

a. Professions (b) careers (c) vocations (d) trade

38. An individual who decided to pursue a post graduate programme is probably seeking for
satisfactory of

a. Safety need (b) social needs (c) self-esteemed (d) self-actualization need

39. Which of these is most suitable for the teaching of addition with carrying in mathematics
to a primary two class

a. Play way method (b) lecture method (c) field trip method (d) discussion method

40. The idea that teaching as an activity is one not restricted by professional tutelage is a correct
one

a. True (b) untrue (c) half true (d) none of the above

41. Reaching entails

a. Arbitrariness (b) promotion of dogma (c) conscious sand deliberate attempt at

disseminating dogma without resistance from the recipients/ learners (d) conscious and
deliberate attempts at communication content of instruction by the teacher to the
learners
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42. Teaching as a cycle of communication has how many process?

a. 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6

43. In a process of communication, the substitute name for channel is

a. Evaluation (b) learner (c) method (d) teacher

44. Any dysfunction on the process of communication cannot cumulatively affect the process

a. False (b) true (c) not sure (d) totally correct

45. Indoctrination is a concept synonymous to teaching

a. False (b) true (c) not sure (d) totally correct

46. To a cherry optimum impact in the classroom, a teacher needs to be

a. Aggressive (b) domineering (c) factor in a necessary condition that will enhance learning
(d) all of the above

47. _____ is relatively permanent change in behavior or in behavioural potential that results
from experience and cannot be attributed to temporary body states such as those induced
by illness, fatigue or drugs

a. Indoctrinations (b) Instruction (c) Learning (d) Teaching

48. One of the following is a condition that must be satisfied before we can say we have a
successful teaching

a. It must be mythical (b) it must be teacher centered (c) it must be learner centered (d) it
must be totally arbitrary
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49. Learning can succeed in the absence of necessary instructional materials

a. False (b) true (c) not sure (d) totally correct

50. A career is accorded a professional status when

a. It applies for it at the ministry of labour (b) it involves the use of formal languages (c) it
involves long period of training (d) certificate of proficiency

51. Which of these is NOT a hierarchical level of affective objective

a. Receiving (b) responding (c) valuing (d)reflexion

52. Holding of pen to write and use of hand fork by a school pupil are typical examples of

a. Basic fundamental movement (b) skilled movements (c) reflex movements (d) physical
abilities

53. One of the guidelines for good questioning techniques in classroom instruction is that it

a. Must not be double barren (b) must be limited to brilliant teachers (c) must reflect high
level of language (d) must satisfy the interest of the learners

54. To retain learners in school the following should be observed EXCEPT

a. School environment should be triadic (b) instructional materials should be available (c)
time school opens should be flexible (d) teacher should friendly and accommodating

55. All but one of the following is appropriate. At the end of the lesson the students should be
able to

a. State five characteristics of living things (b) understanding five characteristics of living
things (c) know five characteristics of living things (d) demonstrate knowledge of five
characteristics of living things
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56. Team teaching entails

a. Arrangement of pupils into two groups for a contest (b) use of two or more teachers for
a particular subject (c) invitation of subject specialize from outside the school (d)
illustration involving use of different interest groups

57. Someone who carries out activities of educating, instructing and teaching is a/an

a. Indoctrinator (b) teacher (c) chief (d) all of the above

58. _____ can be described as noticeable behavioural change that should at and fest in a learner
after be exposed to a particular instruction

a. Scheme of work (b) instructional material (c) instructional (d) instructional objectives

59. _____ provide specific statement of what pupil will be able to do at the end of instruction

a. Aims (b) goals (c) objectives (d) missions

60. _____ are general statements of intention

a. Aims (b) goals (c) objectives (d) missions

61. _____ state how the intent may be realized

a. Aims (b) goals (c) objectives (d) missions

62. The domain that is concerned with impact on knowledge and thinking skills of learners is

a. Affective (b) cognitive (c) psychomotor (d) emotional

63. _____ is the teacher’s guide as to how the whole process of teaching can be approached
within a specific time allocated for that subject on the time table

a. Lesson plan (b) scheme of work (c) syllabus (d) curriculum

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64. One of the following is the odd one out

a. Lecture method (b) cooperative learning (c) excursion method (d) acoustic method

65. _____ is a group of people in a learned occupation. The members of which agree to abide
by specified rules of conduct when practice it

a. Occupation (b) work (c) labour (d) Profession

66. The assessment of the extent to which teaching learning process has been gratified or
realized is

a. Introspection (b) assessment (c)evaluation (d) appraisal

67. The inner urge or drive that account for the arousal, selection, direction, direction and
continuation of behavior is

a. Intelligence (b) instinct (c) motivation (d) none of the above

68. A process that depends on experience and leads to long term changes in behavior is known
as

a. Learning (b) education (c) excursion (d) training

69. The process of passing information to learner to carry out some laid down activities by the
teacher (a) indoctrination (b) self-directed learning (c)instruction (d)training
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