Teaching Strategies MCQs

Teaching Strategies MCQs

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1: Authors Freiberg and Driscoll discuss all of the following strategies except ______.

A.   The context of teaching situations

B.   Textbook support materials

C.   Curriculum to be taught

D.   Diverse learners in the classroom

2: If you were to walk into a classroom, which instructional strategy would you be most likely to see, since it is most common in classrooms?

A.   Cooperative learning

B.   Lecture

C.   Discovery

D.   Questioning

3: Bloom’s taxonomy identifies ______ levels of questioning.

A.   Four

B.   Five

C.   Six

D.   Seven

4: Authors Wiggins and McTighe support the idea that ______ must be identified before teachers can begin instruction.

A.   Support material availability

B.   Technology supports

C.   Standards

D.   Essential questions

5: Which strategy is considered the most emotionally charged teaching strategy?

A.   Discovery

B.   Cooperative learning

C.   Questioning

D.   Simulation and drama

6: The “Blue-eyed/Brown-eyed” experiment was designed to simulate ______.

A.   Racial discrimination

B.   Genetics

C.   Parental influence

D.   Personal attributes

7: What term is used to describe “thinking about your own thinking”?

A.   Simulation

B.   Metacognition

C.   Thought processing

D.   Probing

8: If you want your students to make sense of a complex task, which strategy are you most likely to use?

A.   Modeling

B.   Exploration

C.   Scaffolding

D.   Discovery

9: Integrating technology into the classroom requires a teacher to have ______.

A.   Curiosity and a willingness to try new things

B.   Greater technology skills than the students

C.   Students with Internet access at home

D.   A computer for every child in the class

10: Teachers can use bracketing at either the beginning or the end of a lesson to support students’ understanding.

A.   True

B.   False

11: Review and extension activities are examples of ______.

A.   Bracketing

B.   Grouping

C.   Sponges

D.   Internalizing

12: Teachers can use curriculum materials only in the ways dictated in the instructions.

A.   True

B.   False

13: As a teacher, you use Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences to incorporate multiple perspectives, orientations, and strategies into your instruction.

A.   True

B.   False

14: As a teacher, you know that homework is a form of independent practice that should be completed entirely at home, so you should not allow time for it in your class.

A.   True

B.   False

15: Teachers use questioning to accomplish all of the following except ______.

A.   Providing student feedback

B.   Checking for understanding

C.   Determining level of instruction students need

D.   Managing student behavior

A.   Writing

B.   Engaging

C.   Mixing

D.   Sorted

17: A______ group of students working together to solve problems or help one another learn in cooperative learning groups.

A.   Homogenous

B.   Heterogenous

C.   Mix

D.   Single

18: Teaching of information or a skill through a lecture or demonstration is called

A.   Direct or explicit instruction

B.   In Direct or explicit instruction

C.   Mix or explicit instruction

D.   All of above

19: In a fishbowl there is a dialog that can be used when discussing topics within large groups. The advantage of a fishbowl is that it allows the entire group to participate in a conversation.

A.   True

B.   False

20: Involvement of students in inquiry activities in which they investigate the content and attend to context. The teacher becomes a facilitator of learning content rather than the deliverer of the content is called

A.   Indirect or implicit instruction

B.   Direct or implicit instruction

C.   Direct or explicit instruction

D.   Indirect or explicit instruction

21: A learning cycle is a concept of how people learn from experience. A learning cycle will have a number of stages or phases, the last of which can be followed by the first

A.   True

B.   False

22: Thinking about one’s own thinking, which includes deciding on a specific choice or solution and acting on one’s decisions is called

A.   Metacognition

B.   Modeling

C.   Metacognition

D.   Thoughts

23: A way of learning in which students or teachers learn how to act or behave by observing others is called

A.   Metacognition

B.   Modeling

C.   Metacognition

D.   Thoughts

24: In Problem-based learning, instruction is focused on a relevant problem and data is provided to students to help them reach solutions.

A.   True

B.   False

25: Beginning instruction with small tasks the learner already knows and building on that knowledge to move students progressively toward more in-depth understanding is called

A.   Strategy

B.   Scaffolding

C.   Taxonomies

D.   Shifting

26: An instructional method or technique teachers use to deliver instruction is called

A.   Strategy

B.   Scaffolding

C.   Taxonomies

D.   Shifting

27: Classification systems of the learning hierarchy that progress from simple to complex is called

A.   Strategy

B.   Scaffolding

C.   Taxonomies

D.   Shifting

28: The time a teacher waits after asking a question that gives students the opportunity to think about a response is called

A.   Wait-time I

B.   Wait-time II

C.   Wait-time III

D.   Adaptive response

29: The time a teacher waits after a student has responded to a question, providing other students the opportunity to add an additional response or ask for clarification is called

A.   Wait-time I

B.   Wait-time II

C.   Wait-time III

D.   Adaptive response