PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Technical and scientific competencies***
1. Is membership to the Accredited Professional
Organization for teachers mandatory for all LET
passers?
A. No.***
B. Yes, when the teacher is already teaching
C. Yes.
D. Only for LET passers who are not repeaters
2. Can Manny Pacquiao be given special permit
to teach boxing in a special school?
A. No, he is not a teacher education graduate.
B. No, he has not passed the LET.
C. Yes, he is a graduate of ALS.
D. Yes, he has excelled and gained international
recognition.***
3. Is it professional for a teacher to receive gifts
from the student and parents?
A. Not at all
B. No, especially if done in exchange for
requested concessions***
C. Yes, if deserved
D. Yes, in-season and out-of-season gifts
4. “Specialization is knowing more and more
about less and less”. Then it is better to be a
generalist, claims Teacher Cris. On which
philosophy Teacher Cris lean?
A. Perennialism***
B. Progressivism
C. Essentialism
D. Existentialism
5. An Education graduate without a license is
accepted to teach in a private school? Is this in
Violation of RA 7836?
A. No, provided he has taught for at least 3
years.***
B. Yes, No one may teach without license.
C. No.
D. Yes.
6. For relevance to business and industry, what
did the First Biennial National Education on
education (2008) impose for updating the
Licensure Examination for Teachers?
A. Moral or ethical values
B.
C. Upgraded laboratory facilities
D. Vocational skills
7. Which program directly embodies both the
pre-service and in-service programs?
A. BESRA – Basic Education Sector Reform
Agenda
B. TEDPA – Technical Education Development
program***
C. K-12
D. BEC – Basic Education Curriculum
8. How can the efforts of four agencies (DEpED,
CHED, PRC, CSC) be best achieved for the
training and development of teachers?
A. Synchronization***
B. Cost-reduction
C. Streamlining
D. Sharing of sources
9. What is the core of the Teacher Education
Development Program?
A. High order thinking skills or HOTS
B. Student-centered learning
C. National Competency-Based Teaching
Standards***
D. Technology integration in instruction
10. What kind of school environment will MOST
EFFECTIVELY encourage the new teacher for
active participation in the school’s unique
educational culture?
A. Constructive feedback
B. Involvement in planning/designing
activities***
C. Induction/orientation programs
D. Briefing with colleagues
11. What is known as a self-appraisal for
professional growth that is acceptable and
useful for recognizing weakness and strengths
for a new beginning teacher?
A. Master teacher’s evaluation
B. Student’s evaluation
C. Principal’s evaluation
D. Self-evaluation***
12. Facilities such as classrooms, fixtures, and
equipment can often damage the morale of
new teachers and become an obstacle for
adapting well to the school environment. What
should be the policy for assigning said physical
facilities?
A. Needs of student’s basis***
B. Position ranking basis
C. First-come, first-served basis
D. Service seniority basis
13. There are various functions a fellow teacher
or peer coach can help new teachers. What role
does a peer coach play by being
present/available to share ideas, problems and
success with a new teacher?
A. A provider of technical feedback
B. A facilitator of strategies***
C. An analyzer of teaching job
D. A close peer or companion
14. Among reforms for enhancing teacher
professionalism, which has been implemented
by law in order to determine whether
prospective teachers have acquired
professional competencies prior to granting
them a permit to teach?
A. Accrediting a national organization for
teachers
B. Setting up centered for excellence in teacher
education centers
C. Licensure examination***
D. Creation of a professional board for teachers
15. From global competence as defined by
international educators, which is the most
appropriate characteristic of globally competent
individual?
A. Familiarity with new culture
B. Open-mindedness to new culture
C. Adaptability to new work environment***
D. Foreign-language policy
16. Teacher Nora sees to it that her classroom is
clean and orderly so her pupils will likely
disarrange seats and litter on the floor. On
which thought is her action based?
A. Existentialism
B. Progressivism
C. Behaviorism***
D. Reconstructionism
17. Teacher Hilda is directed to pass an
undeserving student with a death threat. Which
advise will a utilitarian give?
A. Don’t pass him. You surely will not like
someone to give you a death threat in order to
pass.
B. Pass the student. That will be of use to the
student, his parents and you.***
C. Pass the student. Why suffer the threat?
D. Don’t pass him. Live by your principle of
justice. You will get reward, if not in this life, in
the next!
18. For a school, which of the following is most
significant in repairing shorelines with depleted
coral reefs?
A. Outreach by depositing rubber tires as
artificial coral reefs
B. Implement reporting system against
dynamite fishermen
C. Legislative lobby to disallow tourism in
endangered shorelines
D. Outreach by educating the villagers on
protection of coral reefs***
19. What is the constitutional exemption for
prohibition to establish schools solely for aliens
in the Philippines?
A. Religious or mission schools
B. School for Asians only
C. Schools for children of diplomats and their
dependents***
D. School for special alien children
20. In a tertiary school, the President organized
a Fun Run for students, faculty and personnel to
enjoy camaraderie, physical exertion under the
sun, sense of engagement and achievement.
What does the activity promote?
A. Spiritual Vigor***
B. Cultural consciousness
C. National integrity
D. Moral integrity
21. If your students appear to be more
interested in a topic outside your planned
lesson for the day, you set aside your lesson
plan for that day and grasp the opportunity to
discuss the topic of particular interest to your
students. Strike the iron while it is hot! Which
philosophy governs your action?
A. Rationalism
B. Empiricism
C. Existentialism
D. Progressivism***
22. In what setting is differentiated and multi-
lingual teaching most effective?
A. Special children with classes
B. Multi-grade classes
C. Children with diverse cultural
backgrounds***
D. Pre-school children
23. In the Education Act of 1901 which
established a free public education in the
Philippines, what language was imposed under
the one-language policy?
A. Spanish
B. English***
C. Tagalog
D. Filipino
24. Of the following, which is the most
functional intervention in order to achieve a
basic right of every Filipino Child under the
Constitution and Magna Carta for Disabled
Persons?
A. Philosophy of education
B. Policy for curricular reform***
C. Home study program
D. Structural organization
25. From a broad vantage view of human
development, who has the primary duty to
educate the youths or children?
A. Parents***
B. Teachers
C. The state
D. The schools
26. Of the following interventions, which is
directly aimed at responding to the transitional
gap between academic achievement and
employment?
A. Identification of centers of excellence
B. Deregulation of tuition fees
C. School networking with business and
industry***
D. Voluntary accreditation of schools
27. In the formal education system during
Hispanic times in the Philippines, what was not
implemented, but which we enjoyed during the
American period?
A. Vocational education***
B. Private education
C. Religious education
D. Public education
28. If Dr. Jose Rizal lives in the 21st century,
what character expression and commitment
would have shown our generation?
A. Inventor of techniques
B. Citizen and producer
C. Member of family and community
D. Creative dreamer***
29. In the learning to do pillar of new education,
what is the enabling factor that can make the
learner fully contribute to a peaceful and just
society?
A. Knowledge
B. Skills
C. Insights
D. Values***
30. Before being able to fully learn to live and
work together under the pillar of the 21st
century Education, what must the learner attain
for himself?
A. Find peace within oneself***
B. Attain an altruistic mind
C. Love his fellowmen
D. Become self-actualized
31. What best described people of the world
learning to live together in peace and harmony
through understanding of each other’s history sin. How do you characterize Dona’s moral
traditions and spiritual values? attitude?
A. Interdependence A. Callous -applicable on criminal
B. Pluralism and diversity*** B. Pharisaical -Hypocrite
C. Accentuated risk C. Scrupulous -guilt
D. Contemporaneity D. Strict***

32. The transparency International’s perception
that the Philippines suffers a cultural malaise of
corruption, what component of our character
needs to be further developed along the
Learning To Be Pillar of education in the 21st
century?
A. Familial-social component
B. Physical-economic component
C. Intellectual-emotional component
D. Ethical-spiritual component***
33. Of the three aspects of learning, which is
NOT mentioned as needed so that the
individual learner in the 21st century can learn
how to learn?
A. Ability to think
B. Mathematical skills
C. Memory skills***
D. Concentration
34. This powerful European country supplied
arms to Afghanistan rebels who were fighting a
terrorist war in the Middle East. What was the
principle of moral discernment applicable in this
case?
A. Principle of double effect
B. Principle of lesser evil
C. Principle of material cooperation
D. principle of moral cooperation***
35. Which of the following best defines a
morally mature person?
A. Cultural values clarification
B. Unhampered exercise of one’s right
C. Transmittal of one’s moral viewpoint
D. Knowledge and practice of universal moral
values***
36. Educated in a religious school, Dona goes to
confession every day to be free of any kind of
37. How would you characterize the moral
attitude of Hispanic friars who taught religion
but were unfaithful to their vow of property by
amassing the land properties of natives?
A. Scrupulous
B. Strict
C. Lax –not strict enough or careless
D. Pharisaical***
38. How would you characterize the moral
attitude of prisoners with criminal minds, who
have no sensitivity to the welfare of other
people?
A. Pharisaical
B. Strict
C. Lax
D. Callous***
39. Teacher Susan is of the thinking that from
the very start students must be made to realize
study is indeed hard work. To which philosophy
does Teacher Susan adhere?
A. Essentialism***
B. Perennialism
C. Progressivism
D. Reconstructionism
40. What was the degree of moral certitude
when U.S. statement decided to drop the
atomic bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to
prevent mass deaths by a land invasion of
Japan?
A. Doubtful
B. Certain***
C. Perplexed
D. Probable
41. After the embarrassing incident, Teacher
Dante vowed to himself to flunk the student at
the end of the school term. What has Dante
done that is against the guidelines for using
punishment?
A. Punishing immediately in an emotional state
B. Using double standards in punishing
C. Doing the impossible
D. Holding a grudge and not starting with a
clean slate***
42. Following the principles for punishing
students, which of the following is the LEAST
desirable strategy for classroom management?
A. Punishing while clarifying why punishment is
done
B. Punishing while angry***
C. Punishing the erring student rather than the
entire class
D. Give punishment sparingly
43. According to the guidelines on punishment,
what does it mean that the teacher should give
the student the benefit of the doubt?
A. Make sure facts are right before
punishing***
B. Doubt the incident really happened
C. Don’t punish and doubt effectiveness of
punishment
D. Get the side of the students when punishing
44. To demonstrate her authority Teacher
Tanna made an appeal to undisciplined
students. What kind of appeal did she make by
saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, don’t engage in
that kind of behavior, you can do much better?”
A. Invoke peer reaction
B. Exert authority
C. Internalizing student’s image of
themselves***
D. Teacher-student relationship
45. What is the term for the leap from theory to
practice in which the teacher applies theories to
effective teaching methods and theories?
A. Integration process***
B. Informational process
C. Conceptualization process
D. Construction process
46. Teacher Jun applies humor to defuse a tense
situation. What kind of joke is NOT acceptable
to the classroom?
A. Funny bloopers
B. Folk humor
C. Sex Jokes***
D. Comic humor
47. From the classroom management strategies
applied on erring students, which of the
following should not be done?
A. Surprise quiz***
B. Communicating problems to parents
C. Parent-principal conference
D. Shaming erring student before the class
48. Among mistaken goals in the Acceptance
Approach to discipline, what happens when
students defy adult by arguing, contradicting,
teasing, temper tantrums, and low level hostile
behavior?
A. Power seeking***
B. Withdrawal
C. Revenge Seeking
D. attention getting
49. Teacher Anna dealt effectively with a minor
infraction of whispering by a student to a
neighbor during class. Which of the following
did she do?
A. Reprimand quietly
B. Continue to teach and ignore infraction
C. Reprimand student after class
D. Use nonverbal signals (gesture or facial
expression)***
50. Of subcategories of movement behavior,
what is happening when the teacher ends an
activity abruptly?
A. Thrust
B. Truncation*** -abrupt end
C. Stimulus-bounded
D. Flip-flop
51. Of subcategories of teacher movement
behavior, what is happening when the teacher
goes from topic or activity to other topic or
activities, lacking clear direction and sequence content did he achieve when he made certain
of activities? his information came with the “information
A. Truncation explosion” which he got in the Internet, such as
B. Dangle how to effectively teach phonetics?
C. Thrust*** A. Learnability
D. Flip-flop B. Significance***
C. Balance
52. Of subcategories of teacher movement D. Interest
behavior, what is happening when the teacher
is too immersed in a small group of students or 57. Among the major goals of Philippine
activity, thus ignoring other students or education, which seeks to develop judgement
activity? as to right and wrong, and commitment to
A. Truncation truth, moral integrity and strengthening of the
B. Flip-flop moral fabric of society?
C. Stimulus-bounded*** A. Self-realization
D. Thrust B. Autonomy
C. Ethical Character***
53. What mistake is teacher Zeny trying to avoid D. Enculturation
by never ignoring any student or Group of
students in her discussions and other activities? 58. Teacher Job made certain his lesson content
A. Non-direction can be useful to his students, taking care of
B. Dangled activity their needs in a student-centered classroom.
C. Divided attention*** What is this kind of quality content?
D. Abrupt end A. Utility***
B. Balance
54. Teacher Mona is a great lecturer and so she C. Self-sufficiency
is invited to speak and represent the school on D. Interest
many occasions. What is one quality of her
lecturers when she follows a planned sequence, 59. In the implementation of the curriculum at
not diverting so as to lose attention of her the classroom level, effective strategies are
listeners? called “Green”. Which of the following belongs
A. Explicit explanations to the Green Flag?
B. Continuity*** A. Homogenous students grouping
C. Inclusion of elements B. Content delivery based on lessons
D. Fluency C. Excess in chalkboard talk
D. Student interest and teacher enthusiasm***
55. Teacher Job makes certain content E. Rigidity of movement
interesting to his students. Focusing on
learners, he also uses many simple examples, 60. Teacher Maggie explains by spicing her
metaphors and stories. What is this quality of lectures with examples, descriptions and
lesson content? stories. What is this quality in her lectures?
A. Interest*** A. Planned sequence
B. Feasibility B. Elaboration through elements***
C. Self-sufficiency C. Use of audiovisuals
D. Balance D. Simple vocabulary

56. Teaching English, teacher job is careful

about his lesson content. What quality of
61. Of the following effects on learning, what is
the effect of simulations that make students
feel and sense experience in the classroom?
A. Reinforcing learning
B. Providing experiences that otherwise might
not be had***
C. Motivating students
D. Changing attitudes and feelings
62. Which of the following is the most
appropriate use of television in the classroom?
A. TV viewing to entertain students
B. TV viewing to replace absent teacher
C. TV viewing with cuts and explanation***
D. TV viewing for the whole one-hour class
63. Of the following effects on learning, what is
the effect of assigning various sections of the
newspaper and allowing choice depending on
the learner’s choice?
A. Encouraging participation***
B. Reinforcing learning
C. Allowing different interests
D. Changing attitudes and feelings
64. A young mother observes her seven year old
girl glued to her computer games. What aspect
of family life may suffer due to obsession of the
young with technology gadgets?
A. Family social life
B. Family economic life
C. Discipline and obedience
D. Parent-child relationship***
65. Can technology take the place of the
teacher in the classroom? Select the most
appropriate answer:
A. No. it is only an instrument or a tool.
B. Yes, when they hire less teachers and acquire
more computers.
C. Yes, when teachers are not competent.
D. Yes, such as in the case of computer-assisted
instruction (not teacher-assisted instruction)***
66. What kind of tool is technology as
evidenced by its use in word processing
databases, spreadsheets, graphic design and
desktop publishing?
A. Analyzing tool
B. Encoding tool
C. Productivity tool***
D. Calculating tool
67. Michael Harrington noted: “If there is
technological advance without social advance,
there is, almost automatically, an increase in
human misery.” Which of the following shows
Mr. Harrington is right?
A. Internet pornography***
B. Twitter
C. Facebook
D. E-mailing
68. Of the types of validity tests, what is
concerned with the relation of test scores to
performance at some future time, e.g.
Freshmen college test can show success in
college?
A. Curriculum validity
B. Criterion validity
C. Content validity
D. Predictive validity***
69. The test questions in Teacher Dante’s test
were confusing and subject to wrong
understanding, especially to poorer students.
What was wrong with the test?
A. Inappropriate level of difficult of items
B. Unclear directions
C. Ambiguity*** unclear/confusing
D. Test items inappropriate for outcomes being
measured
70. Of the following, which exemplifies the best
example of cooperation and voluntarism in the
Parent-Teacher Associations?
A. Helping hands after a natural crisis, e.g.
devastating storm***
B. Attending regular meetings
C. Fund raising for PT funds
D. Running the school canteen
71. Among standardized tests, which reveals
strengths and weaknesses for purposes of
placement and formulating an appropriate
instructional program?
A. Personality tests
B. Achievement tests
C. Diagnostic tests***
D. Competency tests
72. Among standardized tests, which can show
how students perform in comparison with each
other and to students in other schools?
A. Competency tests
B. Subject exit tests
C. Achievement tests***
D. Diagnostic tests
73. Teacher Bea makes her tests easy for
students to understand, easy to administer and
score and suitable to test conditions, e.g. time.
What is she achieving for her tests?
A. Efficiency***
B. Usability
C. Reliability
D. Validity
74. Students must be taught self-responsibility
is the desire of the _____ teacher.
A. Existentialist
B. Utilitarianist
C. Pragmatic
D. Constructivist
75. Which of the following is NOT an advanced
process of meta-cognition among learners?
A. Learning how to recognize thoughts
B. Acquisition of new knowledge***
C. Assessing own thinking
D. Learning how to study
76. Of comprehension or thinking strategies,
which is relating one or two items, such as
nouns and verbs?
A. Basic elaboration strategies***
B. Complex rehearsal strategies
C. Complex elaboration strategies
D. Affective strategies
77. In reading books, which kind of literary work
are most likely very creative by way of
descriptive language and imaginative dramatic
episodes?
A. Fiction novels***
B. Autobiography
C. Biography
D. Historical accounts
78. Among components of direct instruction,
which is the identification of the skill required
and how it is used with the teacher sharing a
cognitive secret?
A. Modeling or instruction***
B. Application
C. Guided practice
D. Review
79. Of skills teacher should understand and
students need to acquire, which is the ability to
integrate complex information into categories
through its attributes (characteristics, principles
or functions)?
A. Scanning
B. Complex cognitive
C. Sharpening-leveling
D. Complexity-simplicity***
80. Inculcating moral maturity among students,
which of the following relates to belief and
ideals?
A. Promoting human equality
B. Refraining from prejudiced action
C. Avoiding deception and dishonesty
D. Respecting freedom of conscience***
81. In reading newspapers, which sections
provide critical views about current socio-
economic and political events or issues?
A. Ads and commercial section
B. Community news section
C. Opinion page***
D. Entertainment section
82. What is the main organization and
orientation of fiction dramatic novels?
A. Informative
B. Narrative***
C. Argumentative
D. Expository
83. Research studies showed that children in
slums generally have lower reading
achievement than children in urban schools.
What factor is shown to affect reading
achievement?
A. Mobility
B. Personality and emotional factors
C. Socio-economic status***
D. Listening comprehension
84. Who asserts that teaching is not just
depositing knowledge into the empty minds of
the learners? It is helping students create
knowledge and meaning of their experiences.
A. Constructivist***
B. Essentialist
C. Existentialist
D. Pragmatist
85. Among models of reading strategies, what
did student Mina adopt when she began with
what was in her mind by making predictions or
hypothesis from the title of an essay she was
going to read?
A. Top-down***
B. Down-top
C. Interactive
D. Bottoms-up
86. When preacher John read the Genesis story
on creation, he explained that God is so
powerful he created the universe in only seven
days. What level of reading comprehension did
preacher John apply?
A. Evaluative reading on character, plot or style
B. Literal reading the lines
C. Applied reading beyond the lines***
D. Interpretative reading between the lines
87. What is the main organization and
orientation of science and social studies reading
materials?
A. Expository*** provide facts in a way that is
educational and purposeful
B. Descriptive
C. Narrative
D. Argumentative
88. In his History class, teacher Naomi used
current events IQ contest to determine
champions in identifying people, places, and
events. What learning objective outcome does
she aim to achieve?
A. Knowledge or recall***
B. Perpetual abilities
C. Application
D. Responding
89. The following are examples of non-verbal
behaviour by teachers. Which one is the
restricting or non-helpful non-verbal
mannerism in class by teachers?
A. Teacher pats good student on the back
B. Facial expression connotes approval
C. Teacher avoids eye contact***
D. Teacher displays supportiveness by laughing
90. In the instructional framework for learning
strategies, which component is demonstrated
by teacher Jose who identifies the skills
required in writing a personality essay and
shows his personally written essay while
showing the steps he used to complete it?
A. Review
B. Consolidation
C. Application
D. Modeling***
91. Without misuse of learning time, Teacher
Odie requests students with singing talent to
perform in class, adding to make learning a
source of fun. What facilitating environment is
Teacher Odie adopting?
A. Tolerates ambiguity
B. Permits confrontation
C. Recognizes right of students to make
mistakes
D. Makes students feel accepted***
92. Principal Luis sets up structure and designs
for teaching-learning that favour free and open
communication, acceptance, respect, freedom
from threat, and trust in self.
What is his general view about learning?
A. It is a consequence of experience***
B. It is at times a painful process
C. It is an evolutionary process 98. Of the dimensions in learning, which is NOT
D. It requires school resources included as an aspect to be given importance in
values education?
93. In Erikson’s stage Theory of Development A. Dogmatic dimension***
Questionnaire, which affirmation does NOT B. Behavioral dimension
belong to the stage of initiative versus guilt? C. Affective dimension
A. People can be trusted*** D. Cognitive dimension
B. In difficulty, I will not give up
C. I feel what happens to me is the result of 99. From cluster of meaningful learning
what I have done activities, which does not belong to verbal-
D. I am prepared to take risk linguistic intelligence learning?
A. Ecological field trip***
94. In his Mathematics class, teacher Don uses B. Debates
practical examples to teach abstract C. Journal writing
mathematical concepts, ensuring that learning D. Reading
is useful in life and not just for the test. What
guiding principle in selection and organization 100. In cognitive learning, what are firmly
of lesson content is he following? established and thoroughly tested principles or
A. Utility*** theories?
B. Significance A. Facts
C. Interest B. Concepts
D. Feasibility C. Hypothesis
D. Laws***
95. For cognitive learning, what are sets of
facts, concepts, and principles that describe
underlying mechanism that regulate human GOODLUCK AND GODBLESS !!! :)
learning, development and behavior?
A. Facts
B. Concepts
C. Theories***
D. Hypothesis

96. Literature teacher Zeny introduced figures

of speech in poetry to improve ability of her
students to interpret verses. What kind of
thinking is she developing in her students?
A. Critical thinking
B. Metaphoric thinking***
C. Convergent thinking
D. Divergent thinking

97. Of clusters of meaningful learning activities,

which does not belong to spatial learning
activities?
A. Visualization
B. Concept mapping
C. Peer tutoring***
D. Art projects