Teacher Education Questions and Answers

Answer: B

The official key marks the development of insight to overcome the pitfalls and obstacles as the least important of the four aspects. The other aspects of the teacher's role in guiding learning, namely helping the pupil see what adequate performance is, giving encouragement and moral support, and providing continuous diagnostic and remedial help, are treated as essential parts of guidance, so the key does not rank them as least important.

Answer: B

The key takes compassion as the quality a teacher is most liked for. Care and understanding make pupils feel safe and willing to learn, which no other trait on the list does as directly. Idealistic philosophy is a belief system and not a quality shown to pupils, discipline is important but is valued less than care, and entertaining is a technique rather than a character quality. The keyed answer is compassion.

Answer: D

The official key names making the teaching process enjoyable as the most important challenge for a teacher. Holding the attention and interest of pupils is the problem that decides whether the learning happens. Discipline, homework and a question bank are routine matters of management or preparation that depend on interest and are less demanding challenges. The keyed answer is D. The key accepts this over discipline because a lesson that holds interest reduces indiscipline and increases homework done, so those are results of the main task. Preparing a question bank is a back-office task that the teacher can finish in advance, and so it is not the greatest challenge.

Answer: C

A present-day teacher needs to use technology in teaching and learning (2), to know the needs of students (3) and to have mastery of the content (4). Knowledge of technology alone (1) is not enough, because a teacher can know technology without using it for teaching. So the keyed combination is 2, 3 and 4. Options with 1 are rejected because mere knowledge of technology is not a skill of adjusting to classroom teaching.

Answer: C

Whatever his or her experience or scholarship, a teacher needs to prepare and enter the class every time, so option (C) is right. Preparation matches the lesson to the class of that day, fixes the aims, the aids and the questions, and keeps the teaching fresh. Option (A) is wrong because even a scholar must plan how to present the matter to learners. Option (B) is wrong because experience does not remove the need to plan. Option (D) is wrong because ability to manage a class does not make a lesson effective without preparation.

Answer: C

The key marks the teacher's approach as flexible, option (C). The teacher keeps strict discipline but leaves room for discussion and the clearing of doubts, so the approach is firm in rules yet adaptable in dealing with students. Authoritative, option (A), would imply decisions imposed without discussion. Rigid, option (D), would allow no room at all. Democratic, option (B), is a close choice, since discussion is allowed, but a democratic teacher would share decisions on discipline as well, which this teacher does not. The key therefore prefers (C).

Answer: C

The key takes the student's remark to mean that a teacher first needs to be obedient before asking students to be so, option (C). A teacher who does not follow rules and regulations cannot expect students to follow them, so the remark concerns the teacher's own compliance. Option (A), efficient content delivery, is not what the comment is about. Option (B), being a model in all respects, is broader than the comment, which refers to rules in particular. Option (D), that students learn misbehaviour, goes further than the student said.

Answer: C

The key says the teacher's chief contribution to the child's self-realization is best made through sensitivity to pupil needs, goals and purposes, option (C). A teacher who understands and responds to what each learner needs and aims at helps the child grow toward his or her own potential. Constant fulfilment of every need, option (A), would spoil the child and make him dependent. Strict control of classroom activities, option (B), and strict reinforcement of academic work, option (D), put the teacher's wishes ahead of the child's development.

Answer: C

The key gives content mastery together with communication competency as the most important quality of a teacher, option (C). Knowing the subject is not enough unless the teacher can convey it clearly to learners, so the two together make an effective teacher. Punctuality, option (A), and sociability, option (D), are useful traits but are not the core of teaching. Content mastery alone, option (B), leaves out the ability to communicate, which is why the combined choice is the best.

Answer: C

The best response when a student fails to answer is to try to prompt her, option (C). A hint or a leading question helps the learner to recall or work out the answer, which keeps her confidence and encourages learning. Punishing her, option (A), would discourage her. Asking her to sit down, option (B), ends the learning chance for her without help. Asking another student to answer, option (D), moves on without helping the one who could not respond. Prompting is the supportive teaching approach.