NTC Licensure Examination: Solve These Essential Skills Questions If You Want To Pass

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NTC Licensure Examination: Solve These Essential Skills Questions If You Want To Pass

NTC Licensure Examination: Solve These Essential Skills Questions If You Want To Pass

Here is the list of sample questions with answers to the General Paper of the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examination.

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What is an essential skill in education?

Classroom-related hard skills include curriculum and lesson planning, testing and grading, record keeping, student supervision and discipline, computer and in-class technology skills, and more. Each of these is crucial for a smooth-running classroom where students can learn.

List Of NTC Essential Skills Questions & Answers

  1. A teacher who serves as a role model to his learners and mentees is most likely to perform all the following activities except

A. coming to school early to supervise learners.

B. disciplining learners harshly when they misbehave.✅✅

C. using appropriate learning materials during teaching.

D. visiting parents at home and talking to them about their learners’ progress.

  1. Schools are required to ensure cordial relationships with the community. All the following practices can be adopted to achieve this except

A. allowing the community to use the school compound for social activities.

B. forming of clubs and societies by learners and teachers to enhance teaching and learning.✅✅

C. forming parent-teacher associations (PTA) to discuss issues relating to the school.

D. inviting a resource person from the community to assist in teaching a particular topic.

  1. A teacher assigned learners to groups and asked them to appoint coordinators who would coordinate the group activities. Which of the following actions best explains the teacher’s intention?

A. Assigning responsibility to the group leaders.

B. Developing leadership skills in the learners.✅✅

C. Encouraging competition among the groups.

D. Ensuring everybody’s participation in the activities.

  1. A professional teacher decided to engage in activities that would enable her to judge the quality of her teaching. Which of the following techniques will help her achieve her aim?

A. Asking other teachers to teach her class for her to observe.

B. Creating portfolios and going through them occasionally.✅✅

C. Creating work samples to guide her teaching activities.

D. Planning her daily activities before engaging in them.

  1. You have been assigned to a new class at the beginning of the academic year. Which one of the following documents will help you plan your activities to meet the needs of learners?

A. The previous scheme of work.✅✅

B. Pupils’ previous year’s examination result.

C. Syllabus.

D. Textbooks for the class.

Go for their previous scheme of work. This will help you know what was taught or not.

  1. The type of evaluation that monitors learning progress is known as, evaluation.

A. diagnostic

B. formative✅✅

C. outcome

D. summative

  1. Which one of the following statements is a general principle of assessment?

A. Assessment procedure must be relevant to unexpected results.

B. The assessment technique selected must conform to learning targets.✅✅

C. Use of a variety of instruments to obtain information about instructors.

D. Use of assessment techniques requires knowledge about the user’s expertise.

  1. Elaboration as a learning strategy is best used with learners to support their

A. ability to apply logical-reasoning processes to abstract concepts.✅✅

B. evaluate the usefulness of information about a particular need.

C. focus their mental processes on a particular environmental stimulus.

D. use their current knowledge to interpret and understand new material.

  1. The physical development of students in the basic school years is generally characterized by

A. a dramatic increase in calorie needs.

B. increased regularity in the sleep cycle.

C. rapid improvement in strength and muscle coordination.✅✅

D. significant enhancement of visual and auditory acuity.

  1. A teacher gave multiple-choice test items to her learners to answer. She gave them four options with one best answer and three incorrect responses. The incorrect answers are referred to as

A. deviators.

B. distractors.✅✅

C. keys.

D. stems.

  1. A teacher gave her learners a set of tasks to complete at the end of a term for assessment. This is termed assessment

A. as learning

B. for learning

C. from learning

D. of learning.✅✅

  1. It is always important to use examples and illustrations in teaching because it makes learners

A. integrate old ideas with new ones in a novel situation.

B. participate in what is being taught.

C. reason well during lesson delivery.

D. remember what has been taught.✅

  1. A teacher who sets many tasks that encourage learner collaboration is said to be engaging in teaching and learning.

A. consultative

B. democratic

C. effective

D. inclusive✅

  1. In teaching the addition of two 2-digit numbers, a teacher starts with the use of counters. What principle of teaching is the teacher applying? Teaching from

A concrete to abstract.✅

B. easy to difficult.

C. immediate environment to remote.

D. known to unknown.

  1. Which one of the following is the most important factor to consider when seating learners in the classroom?

A. Leadership.

B. Participation.

C. Reinforcement.

D. Visibility.✅

  1. A teacher was invited to the district office for an award. She, therefore, asked a colleague teacher to teach her lesson in her absence. Which of the following documents will her colleague need for the lesson?

A Lesson note.✅

B. Scheme of work.

C. Textbook.

D. Timetable.

  1. In designing a lesson plan to teach a topic, the teacher should first focus on the

A. Learners’ background knowledge on the topic.

B. objectives of the lesson.✅

C. test questions to be used.

D. textbooks to be used.

  1. The use of technology to enhance the teaching-learning process is called

A. communication technology.

B. information communication technology

C. information retrieval.

D. information technology.

  1. The use of technology to enhance the teaching-learning process is called

A. communication technology.

B. information communication technology✅

C. information retrieval.

D. information technology.