ESSESNTIAL SKILLS EXERCISE

DURATION: 1HR 15MIN

1. The school is established by the 7. School performance improvement plan

A. Community (SPIP) is to be prepared by the head
B. Head teacher teacher or staff with the approval of ……
C. School management committee A. (DEOC) District Education
D. Region Oversight Committee
2. DEOC stands for District Education B. (SMC) School Management
Oversight Council
A. Committee C. (P.T.A) Parent Teacher
B. Community Association
C. Council D. (W.S.D) Whole School
D. Cooperation Development
3. DEOC is a committee that has a force of 8. Where a teacher compare individual
laws as in the Education Act of ……… students with others in a nationwide
A. 2006 norm group is known as
B. 2007 A. Criteria Referenced test
C. 2008 B. Portfolio Assessment
D. 2009 C. Norm-reference tests
4. School Management Committee (SMC) D. Objective-reference test
was established in ……… 9. Mr. Baadi decided to teach a class by
A. 1994 first looking at their class and level of
B. 1995 intelligence. This shows that Mr. Baadi
C. 1996 was making use of
D. 1997 A. Content Standards
5. Which one of the following is strictly B. Performance indicators
responsible for the total development of C. Indicators
the child? D. Strands
A. DEOC 10. Which of the following is not an agency
B. SPIP of (G.E.S) Ghana Education Service
C. SMC A. Parent Teacher Association
D. P.T.A B. Scholarship Secretariat
6. In the formation of PTA, which one of C. Library Board
the following can be chairman of the D. (WAEC) West African
P.T.A? Examination Council
A. One of the Religious priest in the 11. An instrument used for describing one or
community more characteristics of a pupil using a
B. A parent who has a ward in the scale is referred to as ……
school A. Assessment
C. The District Director B. Evaluation
D. The District Chief Executive C. Measurement
D. Test
12. Miss Linda Ntim consulted you as a A. Complaint
consultant that, she wanted to identify B. Anonymous
early grade children who are matured for C. Informal
Early Childhood Education, you will D. Formal
advised her to use …. 18. In St. Vincent Basic School, the P.T.A
A. Evaluation chairman used money released for
B. Assessment purchasing sports equipment for furniture
C. Observation for the school. This is an indication of …
D. Screening A. Financial embezzlement
13. With the proposed ranks in the G.E.S, the B. Misapplication of funds
position that comes after (NQT) Newly C. Misappropriation of funds
Qualified Teacher is ……………… D. Stealing
teacher 19. Every teacher is to state instructional
A. Junior objectives in his/her lesson plan. Today
B. Senior the instructional objective is known as …
C. Principal A. Description outcome
D. Senior principal B. Intended outcome
14. The institution responsible for C. Indicators
establishing ethical standards for teachers D. Performance indicator
in Ghana is …. 20. Which one of the following constitute
A. Ghana Education Service base channel of communication?
B. Ministry of Education A. Club meeting
C. National teaching Council B. Phone call
D. Teacher Education Division C. Sporting activities
15. To display knowledge of Educational D. Staff meeting
frameworks and curriculum, a teacher 21. In teaching, evaluation is actually carried
has to …… out at the ………. of the lesson
A. Demonstrate familiarity with the A. Beginning
key policies guiding it B. Last stage
B. Respect learners socio economic C. Each stage
background D. Beginning and last stage
C. Carryout small scale action 22. One major difference between a leader
research and a manager is that, whiles the
D. Create a safe and encouraging manager maintains the status quo, the
environment leader ……………………. Decisions
16. A teacher who is convicted of a criminal A. Controls
offence and sentenced to imprisonment B. Plans
without the option of a fine shall be …… C. Influence
A. Demoted D. Directs
B. Dismissed from the service
C. Made to refund salary
D. Suspended
17. Writing a letter without disclosing one’s
identity is referred to ………. Letter
23. Which one of the following is a key 29. A teacher was able to improve in the
feature of the curriculum? The teaching absence of learning resources. This
of ………….. shows that the teachers was
A. 4Rs A. Democratic
B. English B. Supportive
C. Music C. Transformational
D. Equity D. Transactional
24. Which one of the following is not a 30. The minister gave orders that all, S.R.C
pillar of the new curriculum and P.T.A fees should not be change. In
A. Pedagogical skills this sense the minister was performing
B. Literacy skills ……………. Managerial functions.
C. Gender skills A. Coordinating
D. STS B. Controlling
25. Which one of the following is a C. Communication
professional skills of a good Teacher? D. Directing
A. Concentrating on a good student 31. Before a teacher engages students in any
B. Giving rewards to those who experimental activity, it is important that
deserve it he/she considers the following concerns
C. Managing one weight EXCEPT
D. Teaching for Examination A. Ensuring the availability of
26. The best way to assess Early Grade materials for the experiment
Learners by Miss Olivia Kafui is to B. Giving attention to safety
A. Observe activities of learners concerns
B. Ask multiple questions C. Providing the possible results in
C. Use review to collect information advance
D. Use both questions and Essays D. Testing the activity prior to the
27. When a teacher feels the way a learner experiment by student
feels, then it implies that, the teacher is 32. A teacher is introducing new content to
exhibiting professional attitude in his learners. Which one of the following
relation to NTS for Ghana. This can be strategies would BEST promote the
known as ………………… students’ understanding of the new
A. Love content?
B. Empathy A. Asking students a series of
C. Trust follow-up questions to informally
D. Mercy evaluate their grasp of the
materials
28. Ibrahim is able to command respect from
B. Building a concept web that
his followers because of his charming organizes the main ideas as the
personality. Which one of the following teacher discusses them
type of Authority is this? C. Having students read the relevant
A. Charismatic chapter of a textbook at the
B. Legal Rational conclusion of the lesson
C. Religious D. Listing important specific
vocabulary on the board
D. Legitimate
beginning the lesson
33. Which of the following outcomes is the C. Tact and intuition in making new
primary goal of differentiated friends
instruction? D. Trustworthiness and bossy spirit
37. It is popularly said that any two students
A. Ensuring student on-task
behavior and engagement in are not alike. This implies that they differ
productive learning in their
B. Giving students opportunities to A. Physical and mental set up
assess their own learning as often B. Aptitude
as possible C. Social status
C. Helping students develop the
D. Attitude
skills essential for learning
D. Providing individual students 38. The most important function of a teacher
with appropriate levels of support is to
in their learning A. Facilitate learning
34. Which one of the following statements B. Manage instructional resources
describes a key characteristics feature of C. Coordinate curricular activities
a well-written instructional objective? D. Provide information
A. The intended outcome of the 39. Which of the following best describes
objective is expressed in behavior what meaningful learning is?
terms A. When what is to be learned is
B. The materials students will be
new and easy for the students
provided are included in the
objective B. Materials presented are difficult
C. The objective is linked to a and challenging to the students
specific student-learning outcome C. When the materials to be learned
D. The unit topic and lesson is related to what students already
sequence are noted in the know
objective D. Students find the lesson easy and
35. Which one of the following procedures is
relevant to what was assigned to
the BEST for providing feedback after a
them
test?
40. All the following are the reasons for
A. Discussing marked scripts with
introduction of the Teacher Licensing
the students
B. Giving students their marked Policy in Ghana EXCEPT.
scripts with comments from the 41. The evaluation approach that measures
teacher students actual performance and
C. Marking and discussion the compares it with the objectives of
outcomes instructional is called..
D. Mentioning each student’s score
A. Criterion-reference evaluation
and praising high performer
36. Which one of the following qualities of a B. Democratic evaluation
teacher would help a Newly Qualified C. Norm-referenced evaluation
Teacher to succeed when posted to a D. Bureaucratic evaluation
deprived community school? 42. Which of the following serve as agents to
A. Oppressive tendencies and the curriculum implementation process
humility A. Learners
B. Resourcefulness and creativity B. Doctors
C. Ministry of Education
D. Teachers
43. Which of the following is the most 48. Which of the following is the main
appropriate research to conduct as a function of the philosophy of Education
teacher to improve on your professional A. Reconsider existing educational
practice in the classroom goals in the light of society’s
A. Basic research needs
B. Historic research B. Provide the academic background
C. Action research prerequisite to learning
D. Exploratory research C. Define the goals and set the
44. Every first day of the school year, Miss direction for which Education is
Abrefa prepared activities which will to strive
make her primary 2 children, sing, plan, D. Aid the learner to build his own
learn and introduce themselves to the personal philosophy
class. What process did she emphasize? 49. Which philosophy of Education
A. Acculturation influence the singing of the National
B. Enculturation Anthem in schools?
C. Indoctrination A. Nationalism
D. Socialization B. Naturalism
45. What philosophy is related to the practice C. Pragmatism
of the schools acting as laboratory for D. Socialism
teaching reforms and experimentation? 50. What concepts can best describes Kofi’s
A. Essentialism ability to walk without a support at the
B. Existentialism age of 12 months because of the “internal
C. Progressivism ripening” that occurred in his muscles,
D. Social Reconstructionism bones and nervous system development?
46. Which of the following is not a function A. Development
of the school? B. Growth
A. Changing cultural practices C. Learning
B. Development of aptitude and D. Maturation
skills 51. Under which one of the following
C. Reproduction of species functions of management can you place
D. Socialization among children delegation of authority?
47. Activities planned by school clubs/ A. Directing
organization shows school-community B. Staffing
connection geared towards society’s C. Organizing
needs. What philosophy is related to D. Planning
this? 52. A female teacher structure her lessons in
A. Existentialism a sequence and selects appropriate
B. Progressivism instructional materials to be used. In
C. Realism teaching this is termed as ………………
D. Social Reconstructionism A. Coordinating
B. Directing
C. Instructing
D. Planning
53. The school and the community are in B. Diversify
relationship because the …………….. C. Equity
the community D. Obedience
A. Learners comes from 58. Teaching from simple to complex is an
B. Schools culture is derived from example of ………………. Technique in
C. Parents come from teaching
D. Traditional rulers comes from A. Andragogy
54. In this type of climate every teacher B. Differential
satisfies his/her personal needs. This C. Pedagogical
relates ………. Climate D. Scaffolding
A. Controlled 59. The new lesson plan that integrates
B. Closed assessment is made up of how many
C. Familiar phases?
D. Paternal A. 2
55. The management function which B. 3
anticipates the future is …………… C. 4
A. Planning D. 5
B. Organizing 60. Mr. David Idana taught his lesson in a
C. Budgeting systematic way. After each activity he
D. Coordinating made learners to think critically on the
56. School staff is used to refer to activity before moving on to the next
………………… in a school activity. Allowing learners to think
A. All workers critically on every activity can be
B. Teacher and cooks referred to as …………………..
C. Teachers and administration A. Evaluation
D. Teachers B. Summary
57. Which one of the following is not a C. Reflection
targeted value in the new curriculum? D. Time out
A. Commitment