Domain 3.5

As part of Principal Mae’s responsibly as an Instructional Leader, she visited the class of Teacher April and conducted an observation. She saw that the teacher appropriately gave as an assessment a practical application of the concepts of the science lesson concepts discussed during the lesson presentation.

 

What career stage is exemplified by the School Head?

 

A.   Career Stage 1

B.   Career Stage 2

C.   Career Stage 3

D.   Career Stage 4

• A

• B

• C

• D

After an Instructional Supervisory session, Principal Felix asked the teacher about her observation on the effectiveness of the formative assessment administered. The teacher said that the assessment seems to be not fully addressing the desired competency to be mastered. With that, the principal guided the teacher through questioning in order to arrive at an appropriate formative assessment.

 

What career stage is exemplified by the School Head?

 

A.   Career Stage 1

B.   Career Stage 2

C.   Career Stage 3

D.   Career Stage 4

• A

• B

• C

• D

After a long academic break, Teacher Ben was excited to meet his students and deliver his favorite topic. Before proceeding with the new lesson, Teacher Ben asked the learners to answer ten questions about the new topic to determine students’ prior knowledge and misconceptions.

 

Is the teacher conducting classroom assessment at that moment?

 

A.   Yes, if he plans to record the results of the test.

B.   No, assessments are administered during and after the lesson to determine how much the students have learned.

C.   Yes, because assessments may be given any time to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses.

No, there was no presentation of lesson yet. So, there is nothing to assess

• A

• B

• C

• D

A new teacher in your school is having difficulty in determining whether her assessment should be in the Written Works or in the Performance Task. As a school head, how can you help her?

 

A.   Advise the teacher to come to your office every time she gets confused how to classify her assessments for recording.

B.   Let the teacher exercise her research skills by consulting internet sources and let her report her findings to you.

C.   Ask a master teacher to check her lesson plans and class records until she learns what to do.

D.   Orient the teacher on the guidelines on classroom assessment especially on the learning standards.

• A

• B

• C

• D

The following are the objectives and activities found in a teacher’s lesson plan.

Objectives:

o   Explain the characteristics and nature of an editorial/ opinion article.

o   Write an opinion based on an observed event from a recorded video.

 

Activities:

·         The students will read an opinion article from a newspaper and they will describe its characteristics.

·         A lecturette will be given to present the lesson on writing an opinion.

·         A copy of a news from a newspaper will be provided to the students.

·         The students will write an opinion based on the news they will read.

 

As a School Head, how would you help the teacher improve his plan?

 

A.   Guide the teacher to realize the importance of employing a collaborative assessment.

B.   Facilitate in letting the teacher see if there is congruence or alignment between her objectives and activities.

C.   Tell the teacher to add more activities in the assessment part of the lesson.

D.   Instruct the teacher to change his activity to address all objectives in one assessment.

• A

• B

• C

• D

• A

• B

• C

• D

Which of the following situations exemplifies an “Assessment of Learning”?

 

A.   Teacher Jun lets his students create a product on their own after he demonstrated to the class how to do it.

B.   Master Teacher Helen includes a reflection writing activity before the class would dismiss.

C.   Teacher Michelle administers a Unit Test to be part of the grading, after a set of topics have been delivered to the class.

D.   Teacher Jo give a quiz after the discussion to see how much the students have learned.

• A

• B

• C

• D

A teacher gave scaffolded activities to the students to facilitate mastery of the competencies. At the end the session, the teacher found out that 15 out of 30 students got at least 75% of the perfect score in the assessment. The teacher is in a dilemma on what step to take next. As a school head, what should you recommend?

 

A.   Tell the teacher to proceed to the next lesson since 50% of the learners are at least approaching mastery.

B.   Advise the teacher to proceed to the next lesson for the upper 50% and reteach the lesson to the lower 50%.

C.   Tell the teacher to provide more assessments until at least 80% of the class gets 75% of the assessment score.

D. Suggest that the teacher should give assessments until 100% of the students get 100% in the assessment.

• A

• B

• C

• D

It was Friday when teacher Cruz complained to the principal about the misbehavior of her learner. In front of the principal, she called the parents for a conference by Monday. During the conference, the parents said that they too are tired of their child’s behavior for they always received complaints from teachers. They expressed that it is alright for them if the school will impose sanctions on their son. They will not mind if the school will punish their child. After the conference, the principal and the teacher informed the learner that he is suspended from attending classes for one week. Instead of attending classes, he will clean the guidance office. Were the teacher and the principal correct in the process of disciplining the child?

• Yes. It is because the child’s misbehavior is habitual already

• Yes. It is because the parents said so.

• Yes. The child has to be disciplined. Cleaning the guidance office is not even enough as a form of discipline.

• No. The process was not correct at all.

You are checking the attendance when you notice two of your students are absent. You ask their classmates where they are and learn that they were actually present in their first period class. When you ask their classmates and friends further, you find out that they cut classes not just in your subject but also in other subjects. According to their classmates, they are playing computer games outside the school. Applying positive discipline, which sequence of statements follows the steps in implementing positive discipline?

• I, II, III, IV and then V

• III, IV, II, I and then V

• I, III, II, V and then IV

• IV, V, I, III and then II