THE TEACHING PROFESSION

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Read the statements/questions carefully. Select the best answer among the choices:
1. What philosophy supports the teacher’s practice of giving lectures and making the students memorize
rules and regulations after the lecture?
1. Realism
2. Idealism
3. Existentialism
4. Perennialism
2. What philosophy believes that discussion of social needs and problems must be included in the
curriculum?
a. Perennialism
b. Progressivism
c. Social reconstructionism
d. Existentialism
3. What philosophical belief describes the world to be made of real, substantial and material things?
a. Realism
b. Idealism
c. Pragmatism
d. Social deconstructivism
4. What is the existentialist’s point of view relative to the aim of education?
a. To develop cognitive and power
b. To re-engineer society
c. To acquire productive skill
d. To know themselves and their social efficiency?
5. What educational aim is postulated by social efficiency?
a. Idealist
b. Essentialist
c. Realist
d. Pragmatist
6. A good teacher has “eyes on the back of her head.” What does this idiomatic expression mean?
a. A teacher should not turn her back from the students
b. A teacher should assign a leader to monitor students’ behavior
c. A teacher should establish eye contacts with the students when teaching
d. A teacher should be aware of actions of the students when teaching

7. What is the prime duty of a teacher as a second parent?

a. Allow students to get enough rest and relaxation
b. Make sure that students undergo rigid training in school
c. See to it that students are motivated to learn
d. See to it that the rights of students are respected and their duties and obligations are complied
with
8. Which of the following describes a teacher as a professional?
a. Has motives and goals
b. Provides linkages with other agencies
c. Has specialized training and preparation
d. Us endowed with physical, intellectual, moral, social and emotional qualities
9. Which is not evidence of the pedagogical expertise of a teacher?
a. Communication of the course objectives to the students
b. Awareness of alternative instructional strategies
c. Selection of appropriate methods of instructions
d. Adhering to the Code of Ethics of Professional Teachers
10. Why the teacher’s authority important in managing the classroom?
a. To coerce the students to behave properly
b. To make the students obey all the orders of the teachers
c. To motivate the students to internalize well-discipline
d. To sow fear of the teacher to make students focus in classroom learning