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41.

A teacher has to enhance the readiness level of his students. Which will be the best way to do so?

  • By organising a creational activity in classroom related to the particular topic

  • By organising an indoor game in classroom

  • By storytelling method

  • By giving monitoring to one of the student of the class


42.

Which of the following does not reflect teaching for understanding?

  • Ask students to explain a phenomenon or a concept in their own words

  • Teach students to provide examples to illustrate how a law works

  • Help students to see similarities and differences and generate analogies

  • Enable students to memorise isolated facts and procedures


43.

The speed of teacher's speech may interfere with a student's comprehension of the task if it is too fast or too slow. What a teacher should not do to avoid this?

  • To maintain student's attention by variation of speed

  • To present a new information, use a faster speed of speech

  • To rephrase often, when a teacher's speed is fast

  • Have pauses between major segments of information


44.

Every learner is unique means that

  • no two learners are alike in their abilities, interests, and talents

  • learners do not have any common qualities, nor do they share common goals

  • a common curriculum for all learners is not possible

  • it is impossible to develop the potential of learners in a heterogeneous class


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45.

An education is referred as child-centered education when

  • total development of child's personality occurs

  • preference to child's needs, interests and aptitudes are given

  • keeping in view of teacher's own preferences

  • preference is given to the curriculum


46.

If a learner 'fails' to achieve the certain goal in classroom, then it shows

  • failure of learner

  • failure of class

  • failure of school

  • failure of parents


47.

A student learns to solve the sums of multiplication. He uses his previous knowledge of 'addition'. This type of transfer of learning is known as

  • positive transfer

  • horizontal transfer

  • vertical transfer

  • bilateral transfer


48.

Which of the following will be most appropriate to maximise learning?

  • Teacher should identify her cognitive style as well as of her students' cognitive style

  • Individual difference in students should be smoothened by pairing similar students

  • Teacher should focus on only one learning style to bring optimum result

  • Students of similar cultural background should be kept in the same class to avoid difference in opinion


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49.

Differentiated instruction is

  • using a variety of groupings to meet student needs

  • doing something different for every student in the class

  • disorderly or undisciplined student activity

  • using groups that never change


50.

Which one of the following pair would be most appropriate choice to complete the following sentence? Children_______faster when they are involved in the activities that seem to be_________________.

  • forget; useful in a classroom

  • recall; linked with their classwork only

  • memorise; culturally neutral

  • learn; useful in real life


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