Teacher Education Questions and Answers

Answer: C

An internship programme of teacher education provides a complete school environment.

In an internship the student teacher is attached to a school for a continuous period and takes up all duties of a teacher, such as teaching, evaluation and co-curricular work, so he or she experiences the whole school.

Content courses and research courses are taught in the college, and practical courses of short practice lessons are only a part of what an internship offers.

Answer: D

Objective writing is the skill not described by Allen and Ryan.

Allen and Ryan's list of microteaching skills deals with classroom teaching behaviour, for example stimulus variation, questioning (fluency in questions), reinforcement, illustrating with examples, use of the blackboard and pupil participation.

Student participation, question fluency and blackboard skill are therefore all on the list. Writing objectives belongs to planning a lesson and is not a teaching skill practised in a microlesson.

Answer: C

The key attributes the quotation to Tagore.

The words that a teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself, and that a lamp cannot light another lamp unless it continues to burn its own flame, are usually credited to Rabindranath Tagore, who made the teacher's own growth central to education at Santiniketan.

Gandhi, Aurobindo and Vivekananda are well known educational thinkers, but the key does not give them this saying.

Answer: D

The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning and development.

In a modern view the teacher guides, organises experiences and supports the learner's growth in knowledge, skills and attitudes, so the learner learns for himself. Facilitation covers all of this.

Imparting knowledge and skills, correcting behaviour and conducting examinations are each only a part of the work, and awarding degrees is the function of a university, not of the teacher. Thus the widest and most accurate statement is facilitating learning and development.

Answer: A

State Institutes of Education conduct refresher courses for secondary level teacher education.

State Institutes of Education provide in-service and refresher training for teachers and teacher educators at the school stage in the state, and so the key assigns them the secondary level courses.

Academic Staff Colleges run refresher courses for college and university teachers, and the National Institute of Education belongs to NCERT and is a national centre. NCTE regulates teacher education and does not conduct the courses.

Answer: B

DIET stands for District Institute of Education and Training.

DIETs were set up in districts after the National Policy on Education, 1986, to give pre-service and in-service training to elementary school teachers and to support the schools of the district with academic resources.

The other options, such as Educational Technology, Elementary Training and Elementary Teachers, are not the expansion of the name.

Answer: D

The important concept for developing the understanding and skills of teaching and training is task analysis. It breaks a teaching task into the sub-tasks and skills needed, which makes it possible to plan, practise and teach each one. Planning, demonstration and evaluation are phases of teaching, but the key accepts task analysis as the basic concept for building understanding and skill. Task analysis shows what a learner must be able to do and in what order, so teaching and training can be planned around those parts.

Answer: C

Instructional assessment is not a component of the basic teaching model. The model of Glaser has four components: instructional objectives, entering behaviour, instructional procedures and performance assessment. Instructional objectives and instructional procedures are in the list, and performance assessment is the fourth component. The term instructional assessment is not part of it, so the third option is correct.

Answer: A

The statement that is incorrect about microteaching is that it is a method of teaching. Microteaching is a training technique in which a trainee teacher practises one teaching skill at a time in a small lesson to a few pupils, and gets feedback. It consists of core teaching skills, each skill is practised separately and questioning is one of its components, so the other three statements are right. Treating it as a complete method of teaching would be a mistake, as it serves to train skills before full classroom teaching.

Answer: C

Accreditation of a teacher education institution is done by NAAC, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council. It assesses and grades higher education institutions. NCTE recognises teacher education institutions and regulates standards, NCERT develops curricula and materials, and NUEPA works on educational planning and administration. So the keyed answer is NAAC.