PGCE Primary Quiz

Explain the concept of scaffolding in teaching and how it can benefit primary students.

• Scaffolding in teaching is a technique used to limit students' access to resources in order to challenge them to think critically.

• Scaffolding in teaching provides support and guidance to help primary students learn new concepts and build on their existing knowledge and skills.

• Scaffolding in teaching is a method of constructing physical structures in the classroom to help students understand new concepts.

• Scaffolding in teaching refers to the process of removing support and guidance from students to encourage independent learning.

Which of these is NOT one of Rosenshine's Principles?

• Present material in small steps.

• Review previous learning.

• Ask lots of questions.

• Direct TAs to challenge HA pupils during the input.

Formative assessment techniques...

• ... include tests at the end of a unit.

• .... give children a final grade/level.

• .... are used throughout the learning process.

• .... are used at the end of learning.

Substantive knowledge in History...

• ...describes the abstract nouns that define themes in History.

• ...describes the underlying concepts used to organise the content.

• ...describes the techniques used to investigate historical artefacts.

• ....is more important for children to grasp than second-order concepts.

Which of these is NOT considered an 'interrelated dimension' of Music?

• Pitch

• Quaver

• Dynamics

• Tempo

In Phonics, which of these terms is used to describe a written symbol that represents a sound?

• Grapheme

• Phoneme

• Digraph

• Trigraph

Who is the current Education Secretary?

• Kit Malthouse

• James Cleverly

• Nadhim Zahawi

• Gillian Keegan

What does 'CPA' stand for?

In science, Myriapiods:

• have two body parts and two pairs of antennae. Includes woodlice, crabs and lobsters.

• have a soft body, may have a shell. Includes slugs, snails, barnacles, and octopus.

• have a long body with many segments and lots of legs. Includes centipedes and millipedes.

• have a long soft body with many segments and no legs. Includes earthworms, lugworms.

In Computing, what is a conditional instruction?

• A way of breaking a long sequence of code down into smaller chunks.

• A small unit of storage.

• An instruction that allows a computer to run a series of instructions over and over again.

• A 'fork in the road’ where you can go left or right depending on given criteria.