MTLE Elementary Pedagogy Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
Teacher-Centered Classrooms - ANSWER ✔✔Classrooms that focus on the
concept that knowledge is objective and that students must learn new
information through the transmission of that knowledge from the teacher.
Student-Centered Classrooms - ANSWER ✔✔Classrooms in which students are
given opportunities to construct their own meanings onto new pieces of
knowledge; these classrooms are considered constructivist.
Developmentally Oriented Teachers - ANSWER ✔✔Teachers who approach
classroom groups and individual students with a respect for their emerging
capabilities.
Multiple Intelligence Theory - ANSWER ✔✔A theory developed by Gardener
that states that students learn in at least seven different ways, including
verbal/linguistic, quantitative, interpersonal, musical, kinesthetic, intrapersonal,
and spatial.
Theory of Metacognition - ANSWER ✔✔The study of how to help the learner
gain understanding about how knowledge is constructed.
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, Cognitive Approach - ANSWER ✔✔An approach to learning that first helps the
learner gain understanding about how knowledge is constructed, and second,
arms that learner with the conscious tools for constructing that knowledge.
Differentiated Instruction - ANSWER ✔✔The concept that because students
have different ways of learning, teachers must utilize different methods of
teaching in content, process and product.
Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✔✔Applying knowledge to a specific subject area,
and in other subject areas.
Higher Order Thinking - ANSWER ✔✔Mental mind mapping, graphic organizers,
math manipulatives and concept web guides.
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔General concepts or principles supported by
specific examples.
Inductive Reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔Drawing conclusions from information or
data.
Direct Instruction - ANSWER ✔✔A teaching method that emphasizes well-
developed and carefully planned lessons with small learning increments.
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Questions and Correct Answers
Teacher-Centered Classrooms - ANSWER ✔✔Classrooms that focus on the
concept that knowledge is objective and that students must learn new
information through the transmission of that knowledge from the teacher.
Student-Centered Classrooms - ANSWER ✔✔Classrooms in which students are
given opportunities to construct their own meanings onto new pieces of
knowledge; these classrooms are considered constructivist.
Developmentally Oriented Teachers - ANSWER ✔✔Teachers who approach
classroom groups and individual students with a respect for their emerging
capabilities.
Multiple Intelligence Theory - ANSWER ✔✔A theory developed by Gardener
that states that students learn in at least seven different ways, including
verbal/linguistic, quantitative, interpersonal, musical, kinesthetic, intrapersonal,
and spatial.
Theory of Metacognition - ANSWER ✔✔The study of how to help the learner
gain understanding about how knowledge is constructed.
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, Cognitive Approach - ANSWER ✔✔An approach to learning that first helps the
learner gain understanding about how knowledge is constructed, and second,
arms that learner with the conscious tools for constructing that knowledge.
Differentiated Instruction - ANSWER ✔✔The concept that because students
have different ways of learning, teachers must utilize different methods of
teaching in content, process and product.
Critical Thinking - ANSWER ✔✔Applying knowledge to a specific subject area,
and in other subject areas.
Higher Order Thinking - ANSWER ✔✔Mental mind mapping, graphic organizers,
math manipulatives and concept web guides.
Deductive Reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔General concepts or principles supported by
specific examples.
Inductive Reasoning - ANSWER ✔✔Drawing conclusions from information or
data.
Direct Instruction - ANSWER ✔✔A teaching method that emphasizes well-
developed and carefully planned lessons with small learning increments.
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