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Instructional approaches determine how teachers present content, involve learners and achieve lesson objectives. Coverage includes lecture, discussion, demonstration, questioning, problem-solving, cooperative learning, project and activity methods, along with teacher-centred and learner-centred approaches. Method selection depends on the subject, learners, available resources and intended learning outcome.
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- A. Understanding
- B. Sensitivity
- C. Pronunciation
- D. Increasing factual knowledge
Explanation: The central aim of reading is to construct meaning and understand the text.
Correct answer: Understanding- A. Discussions
- B. Negotiations
- C. Meetings
- D. None of these
Explanation: A conference is a face-to-face discussion in which participants exchange views about a subject or problem.
Correct answer: Discussions- A. Demonstration
- B. Comprehension
- C. Composition
- D. Homework
Explanation: A composition is a student's written piece used to display language or literary knowledge.
Correct answer: Composition84. In a __________ student's formally present material then respond to questions from the audience?
- A. Dialogue
- B. Discussion
- C. Symposium
- D. Seminar
Explanation: A symposium consists of formal presentations by students or speakers followed by questions from the audience.
Correct answer: Symposium- A. Read Aloud
- B. Reading
- C. Silent Reading
- D. All of these
Explanation: Read-aloud is an old teaching strategy that remains useful for modelling pronunciation, fluency, expression, and listening.
Correct answer: Read Aloud- A. Peer Classification
- B. Oral Questioning
- C. Peer Questioning
- D. Peer Tutoring
Explanation: Peer questioning is a strategy in which students ask and answer questions among themselves during or after presentations.
Correct answer: Peer Questioning- A. Repeat the lesson once again
- B. Teach the lesson again giving more examples
- C. Proceed to the next Lesson so that syllabus could be covered
- D. Checkup the previous knowledge of the students in the topic
Explanation: Checking students' previous knowledge helps identify the source of misunderstanding before reteaching.
Correct answer: Checkup the previous knowledge of the students in the topic- A. Diagnostic phase is defective
- B. Interactive phase is not properly activated
- C. Post active phase is not properly planned
- D. Both A and B
Explanation: The interactive phase depends on sound diagnosis of learners' needs and on proper activation of teacher-student interaction.
Correct answer: Both A and B- A. partner
- B. facilitator
- C. delegator
- D. formal authority
Explanation: In direct instruction or lecturing, the teacher controls the content, pace, and presentation, so the teacher acts as a formal authority.
Correct answer: formal authority- A. Socratic Method
- B. Aristotelian Method
- C. Heuristic Method
- D. Platonic Method
Explanation: The Socratic method guides learners through carefully sequenced questions rather than directly telling them the answer.
Correct answer: Socratic Method- A. head and heart
- B. head and hands
- C. heart and hands
- D. head, heart, and hands
Explanation: Waldorf education seeks balanced development of the head, heart, and hands, representing intellectual, emotional, and practical growth.
Correct answer: head, heart, and hands- A. calculations
- B. brain storming
- C. thoroughness
- D. mental shortcuts
Explanation: Brainstorming helps people begin creative work by generating many ideas freely before judging or refining them.
Correct answer: brain storming- A. Cooperative Learning
- B. Cooperative Review
- C. Group work
- D. Cooperative Thinking
Explanation: Cooperative review uses groups to quiz one another and review previously taught material, making revision an interactive group activity.
Correct answer: Cooperative Review- A. Circles of learning
- B. Circles of knowledge
- C. Circles of conceptual learning
- D. None of these
Explanation: Circles of learning combines whole-class instruction with heterogeneous small-group learning, allowing students with different abilities…
Correct answer: Circles of learning- A. Counselling
- B. Tutoring
- C. Guidance
- D. None of these
Explanation: Tutoring is individualized one-to-one instruction used to teach or reteach concepts.
Correct answer: Tutoring- A. World list
- B. Spelling Notebook
- C. Matching words
- D. None of These
Explanation: A spelling notebook is a learner-maintained record of words that need further practice, supporting personal vocabulary and spelling…
Correct answer: Spelling Notebook- A. experience
- B. practice
- C. knowledge
- D. observations
Explanation: Pragmatism treats learning as an active process in which learners gain understanding by doing and experiencing situations.
Correct answer: experience98. In John Dewey's student-centered approach of learning, the role of the teacher is of a____________?
- A. formal authority
- B. delegator
- C. instructor
- D. facilitator
Explanation: In Dewey’s student-centred approach, the teacher guides learning experiences, creates suitable situations, and supports inquiry.
Correct answer: facilitator- A. Listening Skills
- B. Managerial Skills
- C. Oration Skills
- D. Teaching Skills
Explanation: Teaching skills combine planning, explanation, questioning, communication, classroom interaction, and assessment, so they are broader than…
Correct answer: Teaching Skills- A. Chronological Sequencing
- B. Chronological ordering
- C. Chronological teaching
- D. None of these
Explanation: Chronological sequencing presents learning objectives or content in the order in which events occur, usually from earlier to later.
Correct answer: Chronological Sequencing