Teaching Aptitude - 6
Questions on teaching methods, classroom management, teacher-student relationships, and educational philosophy.
Questions
A student laughs at your question and gives a wrong reply, how will you handle this situation?
- By beating him
- By making fun of him
- By ignoring him
- By making him realise his mistake
A good teacher is always ready to
- teach his class
- help the gifted students
- help the weak students
- all of the above
How do you view a teaching career?
- I hate it
- I would like to quit
- Definitely the best
- I would like some other better job
How should an impertinent student be treated?
- He should be rusticated from the school.
- A psychologist should be consulted.
- Arrangements should be made for special education for him.
- His activities should be overlooked
Select the statement which shows your predominant reason for deciding to become a teacher.
- It seemed an easy way of living
- My parents were teachers
- I always loved teaching
- I could not be selected in P.C.S
Which of the following methods will you apply for class room teaching?
- Lecturing
- Dictation
- Listening and writing
- All of these
A teacher should not show anger or annoyance on any acts of the students because
- the students hearts can be won by remaining calm and pleased
- the students have immature minds, they have to be handled carefully
- it affects adversely the blood pressure of the teacher
- students do not obey the teachers
Co-education stands for
- boys and girls studying together
- teachers and lady teachers teaching together
- teaching the elders
- equal education to all
Monthly examinations are useful because
- they evaluate the knowledge of a student
- they can be given when the teacher is not well prepared to teach
- the teacher can be free whenever he/she likes
- this strikes off fear among the children
Learning by doing is more useful because
- children understand better by doing
- this is more interesting
- children like activities
- this keeps the students busy
If after the class, some students come to you for the removal of some difficulty, you will
- tell them to ask these things only in the classroom
- say that “I myself do not know“
- try to find out the appropriate solutions to their problems
- suggest them to read some other books
A child in the class should be treated with
- love and respect
- love and affection
- strictness and discipline
- cleverness
Which of the following is the best teaching method?
- Questioning and answering
- Giving notes
- Making the students learn by revision
- All the above
In the class, group activities develop in the students.
- competition
- cooperation
- enmity
- friendship
If some optional subject is opted only by a few students, you
- will appreciate them
- will teach them
- will advise them to change that subject
- will get angry with them
A child enters the class. He is in a dirty condition. The teacher should
- tell him to keep himself neat and clean
- complain to the principal
- send him to the bathroom to take bath
- tell him to sit away from the others
What will you do if students come late on a rainy day?
- Won't say anything
- Find out the reason of their being late
- Punish them for being late
- Make them take an oath for not being late
What type of atmosphere is good for classroom teaching?
- Social
- Cordial
- Adverse
- Suppressed
In order to accept the suitable demands of the students, the teacher should
- convince the members of the managing committee
- make teacher's association struggle against the managing committee
- not agree
- oppose the managing committee
Education can be defined as
- giving knowledge to the students
- all-round development of the students
- acquainting students with the new researches
- none of these
If the students of a class create indiscipline, you should
- repeatedly ask the students to behave properly
- show the fear of punishment to them
- study the methods of other teachers and improve your teaching
- ask the monitor to check it
What will you suggest to the teachers' association against the autocratic behaviour of the principal?
- The teacher should go on strike.
- The teachers should complain to the managing committee.
- The office bearers of the teachers association should try to change his/her behaviour.
- The teachers should create problems for the school.
You want to become a teacher because of
- tuition work
- your love for the profession
- name and fame
- love for money