The Teaching Profession

1. When selecting and organizing the content, these should not only include facts, but also
concepts and values. The three-level approach which ensures balance cognitive, affective and
psychomotor lesson content must be used. The lesson content must not be too easy to bore the
above average student, neither not too difficult to turn off the average. It is something that
challenges the students. If the teacher is following these, what good quality in the selection and
organization of content does she follow?
a. Significance b. Interest c. Balance d. Utility

2. Principal Destor shares this thought with his teachers: “Subject matter should help students
understand and appreciate themselves as unique individuals who accept complete responsibility
for their thoughts, feelings, and actions.” From which philosophy is this thought based?
a. Perennialism
b. Essentialism
c. Existentialism
d. Progressivism

3. What should you do to a student who is far more advanced from his classmates in terms of
knowledge?
a. make him wait for the rest of the class before presenting the lesson
b. give him the same lessons as the other
c. allow him to be absent once in a while
d. give him extra, challenging activities and responsibility

4. Teacher Jamella asked her students to describe how their families celebrate holidays.
Students can discover that people celebrate holidays differently. Which principle in cognitive
development governs Teacher Jamella’s teaching activitiy?
a. Social interaction is essential for cognitive development
b. Children often think in different ways at different ages
c. Cognitive development involves relating new information to prior
knowledge
d. Children actively construct their knowledge.

5. For thepragmatists, the main function of school is ___

a. to propagate and perpetuate long-cherished cultural traits
b. to represent society to the child in simplified form
c. to encourage parents and teachers to be less assertive and afford children greater
freedom
d. make teachers role models of intellectual, moral, aesthetic and vocational excellence

6. Who among the following would most likely approve a subject-centered curriculum?
a. humanist b. an essentialist c. an existentialist d. a progressivist
7. To earn units for promotion, a teacher pays her fee but does not attend class at all. Does this
constitute professional growth?

a. Yes, just enrolling in an MA program is already professional growth

b. Not immediately after enrolling but yes after promotion
c. It depends on the school she is enrolled in if it is reputable
d. No, it is simply earning MA/MS units for promotion

8. Mrs. Destor is a teacher from a city. When she was hired for a teaching position, she was
assigned to a remote area which is the opposite of the place where she comes from.
Adjustment never becomes a problem to her and she proves that she is an effective teacher
wherever she may be assigned. What competence does she show?

a. self-control
b. self-confidence
c. adaptability
d. commitment

9. Which of the following describes the professional attributes of a teacher?

a. has control of the knowledge base of teaching and learning and use of this knowledge to
guide the science and art of his teaching practice

b. shows repertoire of best teaching practice and can use these to instruct children in classroom
and to work with adults in the school setting

c. has view of learning to teach as a lifelong process and dispositions and skills for working
towards improving his own teaching as well as improving schools

d.all of the above

10. The main consideration in the teaching and the learning process is

a. subject matter
b. learners
c. teaching methods
d. instructional materials