Deck 10: Instructional Approaches

Question 1

______________ _____________ is a guided discovery instructional approach that encourages children to find many answers to the teacher's questions,with an emphasis on obtaining a variety of responses.

Answer 1

Divergent inquiry

Question 2

The instructional approach a teacher chooses for a lesson should be based on

A) the time of day the class meets.
B) the content and context of the lesson.
C) the goals of the lesson.
D) all of the choices are true
E) the content and context of the lesson and the goals of the lesson only

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The instructional approach,direct instruction,works well for beginning teachers or teachers who haven't worked with a group of children recently.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The characteristics of the students will not have much affect on the best instructional approach for the teacher to use in a particular situation.

Question 5

In a child-designed approach,the children make many of their own decisions and their own mistakes,and it is therefore one of the best instructional approaches when teaching elementary school physical education.

Question 6

"How many different ways can you find to travel across the room?" is an example of

A) cooperative learning.
B) convergent inquiry.
C) divergent inquiry.
D) learning centers.
E) child-designed instruction.

Question 7

Stations or learning centers are an example of task-teaching where different students practice different tasks,often at their own pace.

Question 8

______________ _____________ is a guided discovery instructional approach that encourages children to discover the same answer(s)to a series of questions the teacher asks.

Question 9

In peer-teaching approaches,the teacher designs and communicates the task,and students assume the roles of provi d ing feedback and assessing.

Question 10

"Pairs-check," "jigsaw," and "co-op,co-op" are all examples of

A) child designed instruction.
B) direct instruction.
C) divergent inquiry.
D) guided discovery.
E) cooperative learning.

Question 11

Cooperative learning activities in physical education should focus only on the personal-social responsibility goals of the program.

Question 12

The following terms refer to how content is delivered to students EXCEPT?

A) instructional approaches
B) organizational strategies
C) teaching strategies
D) instructional formats
E) management strategies

Question 13

The skill and preference of the teacher will affect which instructional approach might be best for a particular class at a particular time.

Question 14

Direct instruction is by far the most common approach used in teaching physical education.