Planning for Instruction

1. Which of the following best describes a productive learning environment?

a.An environment in which learners understand and obey well-established rules

b.An environment that involves collaboration and cooperation between the teacher and students

c.An environment that involves order and well-established routines

d.An environment that is orderly and focuses on learning

2.Of the following, which is the best definition of effective teaching?

a.Teaching that puts students into groups

b.Teaching that builds students’ self-esteem

c.Teaching that maximizes student participation

d.Teaching that maximizes student learning

3.Instruction is typically described as existing in three phases. Which of the following is not one of those phases?

a.Planning for instruction

b.Implementing instruction

c.Preparing the physical environment

d.Assessing student learning

4. When planning for instruction, teachers must first:

a.decide what students should know or be able to do.

b.decide what strategies to use.

c.decide what topics to study.

d.decide what examples are needed.

5.What teachers want students to know or be able to do with respect to a topic is best described as a:

a.learning activity.

b.learning objective.

c.learning process.

d.learning task.

6.Other than selecting topics, all of teachers’ planning decisions are guided by:

a.creating assessments.

b.identifying students’ interests.

c.selecting learning objectives.

d.preparing learning activities.

7. The learning domain that focuses on mental processes involved in learning different forms of knowledge best describes which of the following?

a.The cognitive domain

b.The metacognitive domain

c.The affective domain

d.The psychomotor domain

8.A statement that describes the knowledge students are expected to acquire or construct and the cognitive process that describes what they will be able to do with that knowledge best describes which of the following?

a.An objective in the affective domain

b.An objective in the psychomotor domain

c.An objective in the cognitive domain

d.An objective in the psychosocial domain

9.A Mager objective includes all except which of the following?

a.Performance

b.Criteria

c.Condition

d.Instructional materials

10.The type of objective that includes a general objective coupled with specific learning outcomes is a:

a.Gronlund objective.

b.Mager objective.

c.Tyler objective.

d.Bloom objective.