Models of Teaching

87.Prescriptive approaches to teaching designed to help students acquire a deep understanding of specific forms of knowledge is referred to as:

a.models of instruction.

b.essential teaching skills.

c.sensory focus.

d.instructional alignment.

88.Given that you would like your students to be able to identify verbs in sentences rapidly and accurately, which of the following instructional models would you most likely employ?

a.Cooperative learning

b.Lecture-discussion

c.Direct instruction

d.Guided discovery

89.Which of the following content is best suited for direct instruction?

a.Literature

b.Social studies

c.Mathematics

d.Reading comprehension

90.  Guided practice is an important element in which of the following models of instruction?

a.Guided discovery

b.Discovery

c.Cooperative learning

d.Direct instruction

91.Developing automaticity with a skill occurs during which phase of the direct instruction model?

a.Introduction and review

b.Developing understanding

c.Guided practice

d.Independent practice

92.The phase of the direct instruction model that accesses prior knowledge from long-term memory is:

a.developing understanding.

b.guided practice.

c.introduction and review.

d.independent practice.

93. A benefit of direct instruction is that it:

a. works well for higher-level objectives.

b. is based upon a social constructivist model of instruction.

c.works well with both high- and low-ability students

d. is suited for social science and literature classes.

94.  Gwen is a secondary mathematics teacher.  She starts each day with an introduction of what she will cover that day and a brief review.  Next she develops student understanding by describing and modeling the skill she wants the students to understand. Based on the model Gwen has chosen, she is next most likely to:

a.provide a homework assignment.

b.provide guided practice.

c.access students’ prior knowledge.

d.give students a test.

95.  Given the following teachers, which has considered the characteristics of effective homework?

a.John assigns a new type of problem and will use the homework as a pre-assessment of student knowledge.

b.Paul only periodically assigns homework, so that when he does the students really try hard to do an exceptional job.

c.Dave assigns homework daily.  Students are “on their honor” to complete it.  He does not grade the homework, because he believes the students know that it is important.

d.Ron assigns homework almost daily that includes problems related to the learning activity. He scores the homework and discusses the homework with the students.

96.Which of the following instructional models is best suited to help learners acquire organized bodies of knowledge?

a.Direct instruction

b.Lecture-discussion

c.Guided discovery

d.Cooperative learning