Instructional Process Flashcards
(21 cards)
Which of the following teacher actions best supports a constructivist approach to learning?
Providing students with opportunities to participate in inquiry-based activities
Which of the following reasons is most important in activating students’ prior knowledge before beginning a lesson?
Supporting student understanding of new information by linking it with past learning.
Which of the following is a primary benefit of using cooperative learning activities in the classroom?
Students are encouraged to consider group members’ viewpoints.
During a lesson, a teacher notices two students engaging in an off-topic side conversation. The teacher stops speaking and stands still. Which of the following most likely explains the teacher’s actions?
The teacher is trying to get the distracted students’ attention without embarrassing them.
Which of the following best describes an enrichment activity for a senior high school class?
Attending a field trip to a Revolutionary War reenactment.
An English teacher wants to encourage students to develop their skills in making inferences. Which of the following student activities will best promote the ability to make inferences?
Making conclusions based on careful observations.
Mr. Carter begins an instructional unit by posing several questions related to the new topic. What is the most likely purpose for his actions?
To see what the students already know about the new topic.
During a unit on nutrition, the health teacher observes that some students are having difficulty reading food labels. The teacher provides the students with a graphic organizer they can use to identify and organize the parts of the food label until they become accustomed to reading the labels on their own. Which of the following instructional practice is the teacher using?
Scaffolding
After listening to a student’s presentation, a teacher uses an opposing viewpoint to challenge some of the statements the students mode. The student then responds with information to support the statements the teacher challenged. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the teacher’s actions?
To encourage the student to sue critical-thinking skills
Which TWO of the following are distinguishing of interdisciplinary instruction?
A: Uses multiple instructional resources.
B: Combines knowledge and skills associated with two or more content areas.
C: Uses teams of teachers to plan lessons, deliver instruction, and create assessments.
D: Differentiates instruction to meet the needs of a variety of learners
B, C
Before beginning a new unit on decimals, a teacher anticipates that students will need guided lessons until they are able to use decimals on their own. The teacher is demonstrating an understanding of which of the following instructional theories?
Zone of proximal development
A teacher notices a students waving to another student during instruction, which distracts much of the class. Which of the following actions is most appropriate for the teacher to take?
Using nonverbal cues to indicate to the student that they behavior is unacceptable.
Which of the following strategies best provides enrichment for academically talented students within the regular education classroom?
Creating learning stations that allow the student to explore appropriate topics in depth.
Which of the following is most essential as part of a constructivist approach?
Having students talk or write about ideas and what they have experienced
Which of the following is a primary reason for using visual aids when teaching a lesson?
To clarify the material being taught.
A high school history teacher routinely prompts the class to select and talk about a current event. Students are expected to respect each other’s opinions and encouraged to consider alternate viewpoints. The teacher is primarily demonstrating an understanding of which of the following?
Promoting a safe forum for discussion
An English teacher wants to write a learning objective that focuses on the highest level of Bloom’s original taxonomy. Which of the following objectives best achieves the teacher’s goal
Students will be able to assess the effectiveness of an essay.
According to social learning theory, Which of the following intorducatins to a lesson is most likelyto result in students’ successful learning?
A: If you learn some basic spelling rules, you will become a better speller.
B: Let’s ee how many spelling rules you can write down in one minute.
C: Let’s use your last composition to identify some words you don’t know how to spell.
D: How would you rate yourself as a speller?
If you learn some basic spelling rules, you will becomes a better speller.
Which of the following is a primary advantage of using heterogeneous groups in a classroom?
Students are able to contribute at their individual levels
When determining the scope of an instructional unit in science, a teacher primarily identify which of the following?
The content standards that are to be covered within the unit
Which of the following activities best promotes student development of complex cognitive processes?
Evaluating the authors’ messages in two opposing newspaper articles
