2026 GPSTC END OF COURSE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How to Answer Student's Questions - ✔✔Always allow time for student's questions
and responses
Listen to the question carefully
Restate the question
Admit if you don't know the answer
✔✔ASTD - ✔✔American Society for Training and Development
✔✔Primary Teaching Methods - ✔✔1.) Lecture
2.) Group Discussion / Activity
3.) Demonstration
4.) Role Plays
✔✔Lecture - ✔✔The instructors presents information to the audience with little or no
concern for interaction
✔✔Advantages of Lecture - ✔✔Can be presented to large class
Many ideas in a short time frame
Material may be basic and provide foundation for later
Helps eliminate misunderstandings
, ✔✔Disadvantages of Lecture - ✔✔One way communication
Students tend to lose interest
Encourages student passiveness
No feedback to evaluate learning
✔✔Group Discussion - ✔✔Instructor acts more as a moderator or discussion leader.
Students must take an active part
✔✔Advantages of Group Discussion - ✔✔Students can ask questions and clarify
Increases student interest
Stimulates thinking of students
Material learned more thoroughly and is retained longer
Instructor has a better grasp on how much the student is learning
✔✔Disadvantages of Group Discussion - ✔✔Requires a highly skilled instructor
Fewer points can be presented
Time control is difficult
Not effective with large class
✔✔Socratic Questioning - ✔✔Seeks to get the students to answer their own questions
by making them think and drawing the answer out from them
✔✔Demonstration - ✔✔"Teaching by showing". The purpose is to show how a skill,
procedure, or process is performed so that the student will be aided in learning this skill
or knowledge.
✔✔Advantages of Demonstration - ✔✔Helps make explanations concrete/visual
Appeals to several senses in learner
Helps eliminate misunderstandings
Gives students overall perspective of a task
✔✔Disadvantages of Demonstration - ✔✔Not practical for some subjects
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔How to Answer Student's Questions - ✔✔Always allow time for student's questions
and responses
Listen to the question carefully
Restate the question
Admit if you don't know the answer
✔✔ASTD - ✔✔American Society for Training and Development
✔✔Primary Teaching Methods - ✔✔1.) Lecture
2.) Group Discussion / Activity
3.) Demonstration
4.) Role Plays
✔✔Lecture - ✔✔The instructors presents information to the audience with little or no
concern for interaction
✔✔Advantages of Lecture - ✔✔Can be presented to large class
Many ideas in a short time frame
Material may be basic and provide foundation for later
Helps eliminate misunderstandings
, ✔✔Disadvantages of Lecture - ✔✔One way communication
Students tend to lose interest
Encourages student passiveness
No feedback to evaluate learning
✔✔Group Discussion - ✔✔Instructor acts more as a moderator or discussion leader.
Students must take an active part
✔✔Advantages of Group Discussion - ✔✔Students can ask questions and clarify
Increases student interest
Stimulates thinking of students
Material learned more thoroughly and is retained longer
Instructor has a better grasp on how much the student is learning
✔✔Disadvantages of Group Discussion - ✔✔Requires a highly skilled instructor
Fewer points can be presented
Time control is difficult
Not effective with large class
✔✔Socratic Questioning - ✔✔Seeks to get the students to answer their own questions
by making them think and drawing the answer out from them
✔✔Demonstration - ✔✔"Teaching by showing". The purpose is to show how a skill,
procedure, or process is performed so that the student will be aided in learning this skill
or knowledge.
✔✔Advantages of Demonstration - ✔✔Helps make explanations concrete/visual
Appeals to several senses in learner
Helps eliminate misunderstandings
Gives students overall perspective of a task
✔✔Disadvantages of Demonstration - ✔✔Not practical for some subjects
