Facilitating Leaner-Centered Teaching

1. Principal C 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

Answer explanation

The philosophy being emphasized here is the philosophy of existentialism since this deals on a philosophical theory that people are free agents who have control over their choices as to their feelings, thoughts, and actions. Additionally, existentialism is the philosophy of subjectivity of selfhood and proclaims his/her freedom in accomplishing his/her own destiny.

2.  Which is/are the sources of man's intellectual drives, according to Freud?

• A. Id

• B. Superego

• C. Id and ego

• D. Ego

Answer explanation

According to Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the id is the source of man's intellectual drive since this deals on the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains aggressive drives and hidden memories. Also, the id being the source of psychological energy derived from the instinctual needs and drives ·

3.  Teacher F is convinced that whenever a student performs a desired behavior, provided reinforcement and soon the student will learn to perform the behavior on his own. On which principle is Teacher F's conviction based?

• A. Cognitivism

• B. Environmentalism

• C. Constructivism

• D. Behaviorism

Answer explanation

The principle Teacher F's conviction is based on behaviorism, or also known as behavioral psychology, because this is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, it occurs through interaction with the environment. This learning theory states that behaviors are learned from the environment, and says that innate or inherited factors have very little influence on behavior, a common example of behaviorism is positive reinforcement.

 

4.  Which teaching activity is founded on Bandura's Social Learning Theory?

• A. Lecturing

• B. Modeling

• C. Questioning

• D. lnductive Reasoning

   

Answer explanation

The teaching activity founded on Bandura's Social Learning Theory is modeling. Bandura goes on to explain that "Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions, this coded information serves as a guide for action."

5.  Behavior followed by pleasant consequences will be strengthened and will be more likely to occur in the future. Behavior followed by unpleasant consequences will be weakened and will be less likely to be repeated in the future. Which one is explained?

• A. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory

   

• B. Thorndike's Law of Effect

• C. B. F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory

• D. Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Answer explanation

B.F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory is being explained in this situation, since operant conditioning relies on a fairly simple premise, actions that are followed by reinforcement will be strengthened and more likely to occur again in the future. For example, if you tell a funny story in class and everybody laughs, then you will probably be more likely to tell that story again in the future, vice versa, if you tell a funny story in the class and nobody laughs, you will probably be less likely to tell that story again in the future.

6. Bruner's theory on intellectual development moves from enactive to iconic and symbolic stages. In which stage(s) are diagrams helpful to accompany verbal information?

• A. Enactive and iconic

• B. Symbolic

• C. Symbolic and enactive

• D. Iconic

Answer explanation

In the stage of symbolic, diagrams are helpful to accompany verbal information because in the symbolic stage, knowledge is stored primarily as words, symbols, or in other symbol systems. Symbols are flexible as they can be manipulated, ordered, classified, etc. so the user isn’t constrained by actions or images (which have a fixed relation to that which they represent).

7. An effective classroom manager uses low-profile classroom control. Which is a low-profile classroom technique?

 

• A. Note to parents

• B. After-school detention

• C. Withdrawal of privileges

• D. Raising the pitch of the voice

Answer explanation

Low-profile classroom technique refers to coping strategies used by effective teachers to stop misbehavior without disrupting the flow of a lesson. Note to parents is an example of a low-profile classroom technique as this is the best way to stop and control misbehavior of the students as this couldn't disrupt the flow of lesson since parents are not included during class discussions, plus parents are one of those people who can stop the bad behaviors shown by their daughters/sons as students in the four corners of the classroom.

8. A mother gives his boy his favorite snack everytime the boy cleans up his room. Afterwards, the boy cleaned his room everyday in anticipation of the snack. Which theory is illustrated?

• A. Pavlonian Conditioning

• B. Classical Conditioning

• C. Operant Conditioning

• D. Associative Learning

Answer explanation

The theory of operant conditioning is being illustrated as it can be defined as a form of learning in which behaviors are dependent on, or controlled by its rewards and consequences, the study of operant conditioning helps to understand relations between a behavior and the consequence it offers. In this situation, the behavior is being influenced by a reward, because every time the boy cleans his room, his mother gives his favorite snack.

 

9. Which is not part of classroom routines?

• A. line formation during recess, lunch, and dismissal

• B. passing of papers

• C. greeting teachers and classmates

• D. studying lessons before, during, and after classes

Answer explanation

Greeting teachers and classmates is not part of classroom routines, this is only a class culture and learning climate that whenever we encounter teachers, visitors, and classmates, we are used to greet them, but this isn't actually part of the classroom routines.

10. In the context of the theory on multiple intelligence, one weakness of the paper pencil test is that _____.

• A. it utilizes so much time

• B. it puts the non linguistically intelligent at a disadvantage

   

• C. it lacks reliability

• D. it is not easy to administer

Answer explanation

One weakness of the paper pencil test is that it lacks reliability, unlike from having performance task which we can ensure that it is the real performance of the learner since it has a product and skill shown. Paper-and-pencil test lacks reliability as we are aware that students might copy to their seatmate like in the test or maybe, what they write in an essay are just taken from the net.