Implementing Instruction: Essential Teaching Skills

41.Basic abilities that all teachers, including those in their first year of teaching, should have to maximize student learning are best described as:

a.task analyses.

b.instructional alignments.

c.essential teaching skills.

d.models of teaching.

42.Which of the following is NOT an essential teaching skill?

a.Attitudes

b.Questioning

c.Focus

d.Training

43.High expectations are an example of which of the following essential teaching skill?

a.Attitudes

b.Feedback

c.Questioning

d.Organization

44.When a teacher believes he or she can positively affect student learning, that teacher is said to possess:

a.effective attitudes.

b.teaching efficacy.

c.empathetic effectiveness.

d.proactive attitudes.

45.  Marta Reyon was reflecting on the problem of Luiz.  He was in her third-period English class, and he was failing.  She had tried gentle reminders to him to complete his work and made sure she recognized him when he did so; she had tried simplifying directions; she had tried counseling him; she had tried drawing him out in class and elaborating on his comments and questions.  “So far, none of those has really worked for very long,” she mused, “I know I can get him to learn. I wonder what I should try next.  I think I’ll call his parents and ask for their help.” Which of the following statements best describes Marta’s behavior in the episode you just read?

a.She has demonstrated high teaching efficacy.

b.She has demonstrated modeling and vicarious learning.

c.She has demonstrated effective organizational skills.

d.She has demonstrated a commitment to ethnic diversity.

46.Tony Martin’s students are convinced that he loves teaching English. Of the following, their belief is most likely related to:

a.Tony’s personal teaching efficacy.

b.Tony’s expectations.

c.Tony’s modeling.

d.Tony’s organization.

47. Rick Reynolds calls on all his students as equally as possible. Of the following, his practice most

closely relates to which essential teaching skill?

a.Teacher expectations

b.Teacher modeling

c.Teacher caring

d.Teacher warmth and empathy

48.Gamal is a second-year teacher in a large urban district.  He is concerned for one of his learners, Hasani, as he does not seem to understand the content in his geometry class.  Gamal has tried several different ways to teach the content, to no avail.   This concern for Hasani and his understanding best reflect which essential teaching skill?

a.Organization

b.Focus

c.Caring

d.Communication

49.Roger is a world history teacher.  He peppers his presentation with questions to the students in the class.  If Roger’s behavior is consistent with existing research, which of the following students is Roger most likely to call on?

a.Pete, a low achiever.

b.Jon, a passive student who rarely participates in class.

c.Burton, who tends to be disruptive.

d.Fritz, a high-achieving student.

50.  Developing automatic routines is an example of which of the following essential teaching skills?

a.Attitudes

b.Feedback

c.Questioning

d.Organization