Facilitating Learning Checkup Quiz 2

Visual imagery helps people store information in their memory more effectively. What is one teaching implication of this principle?

• You will not object when students daydream in class.

• Instruct students to take notes while you lecture.

• Encourage your students to imagine the characters and situations when reading a story.

• Tell them to read more illustrated comics.

Which is a classroom application of this principle, “Students learn more effectively when they elaborate on new information.” Ask your students to

• write the principle five times.

• commit the principle to memory.

• analyze the principle from different points of view.

• print the principle in bigger letters then put it in a place where they can read it time and again.

It is sound to encourage students to define terms in their own words because

• defining the terms in their own words help them memorize the definition faster.

• students remember information better when they mentally process it in some way.

• this is one opportunity to brush up with their English.

• they ought to connect the terms they learn with other terms.

The process of problem solving and learning are highly unique and individual. This principle means

• students can adapt alternative problem solving models.

• students can modify their own personal learning styles.

• each student becomes aware of how learning styles can be changed.

• each student has his/her own distinctive style of learning and solving problems.

After reading and paraphrasing Jose Rizal’s A la Juventud Filipina, Mr. Gomez asked the class to share any insight derived from the poem.

On which assumption about the learner is Mr. Gomez’s act of asking the class to share their insight based?

• Learners are producers of knowledge, not only passive recipients of information.

• Learners are meant to interact with one another.

• Learners are like empty receptacles waiting to be filled up.

• Learners have multiple intelligences and varied learning styles.

After reading and paraphrasing Jose Rizal’s A la Juventud Filipina, Mr. Gomez asked the class to share any insight derived from the poem.

The class was asked to share their insights about the poem. The ability to come up with an insight stems from the ability to

• comprehend the subject that is being studied.

• analyze the parts of a whole.

• evaluate the worthiness of a thing.

• relate and organize things and ideas.

Studies in neurosciences disclosed that the human brain has limitless capacity. What does this imply?

• Pupils can possibly reach a point where they have learned everything.

• Every child is a potential genius.

• Some pupils are admittedly not capable of learning.

• Every pupil has his own ability and his learning is limited to this native ability.

To construct useful representations of knowledge and to acquire the thinking and the learning strategies necessary for continued learning success across the life span, students must generate and pursue personally relevant goals. This implies the teachers must

• show relevance of lesson to students’ goals.

• share their personal goals with students.

• group students according to type of goals.

• segregate students without goals in order not to influence others.

In Bruner’s three-tiered learning, which is action-based?

• Enactive learning

• Iconic learning

• Inactive learning

• Symbolic learning

Jerome Brunner and Edgar Dale advise teachers to _______ for effective teaching-learning.

• dwell only on the concrete

• move from the concrete to the abstract

• move from the abstract to the concrete

• dwell only on the abstract