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UNIVERSITY OF EMBU

2020/ 2020 ACADF,MIC YEAR

SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

SECOND YEAR EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREES OF BACHELOR OF

EDUCATION (SCIENCE) AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (ARTS)

ECT 201: GENERAL INSTRUCTIONAL METRHODS

DATE: 3 MAY, 2021 TIME: 2.00-5.00 P.M

INSTRUCTIONS:

Answer Question ONE and ANY Other TWO Questions.

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)

a) One of the National Goals of Education in Kenya is to Promote Social, Economic,

Technological and Industrial needs for National Development. Describe three ways in
which teaching and learning can be used to achieve this goal. (5 Marks)

b) Discuss five language barriers to effective communication in the classroom during

teaching and learning. (5 Marks)

c) Briefly outline five ways you can modify lecture method to make it effective in lesson
delivery during teaching and learning. (5 Marks)

d) Explain five factors that the teacher should consider when preparing schemes of work
during the planning for teaching. (5 marks)

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 e) Motivation is a prerequisite to effective teaching and learning. Explain five strategies you
can employ as a teacher to motivate and sustain learner's attention in a learning situation.
(5 Marks)
f) Discuss five pertinent and contemporary issues in teaching and learning in the
CompetenceBasedCurriculum. (5Marks)

QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)

a) As you prepare to go for teaching practice later in the year classroom management will be
very vital for effective teaching and learning. Analyze five ways in which you will achieve
effective classroom control. (lOMarks)
b) With carefully designed sting of questions a teacher is able to elicit appropriate response
from the learners. Describe five ways in which you will successfully utilize questioning
technique during your teaching practice. (10 Marks)

QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)

a) In teaching and learning process it important to place the learners into a receptive frame
of mind and to create an organized framework for content to be learned.
i) What do we refer to this concept of preparing learners mind? (l Mark)
ii) Give three ways you can carry out the process in 3a (i). (3Marks)

i) Outline four importance of carrying out the process in 3a (i) and (ii) (4 Marks)

b) In John Hattie's Visible Teaching & Visible Learning it is critical that teachers see
themselves as evaluators of their effects on students and develop a mind frame in which
they see it as their primary role to evaluate their effect on learning. Accentuate any four
arguments by Hattie on the mind frame you ought to have as an effective teacher.

QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)

You have been teaching a topic for a few weeks and you have come to the end and you want to
do one lesson that evaluates attainment of the core idea iii the topic.
a) Copy the template below and create a lesson plan for such a lesson (10 Marks)

Name School

Subject Class

Topic Sub Topic

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 Specific Objectives
i)

iii)
References

Rationale for the lesson

Activity and Time Learning Activities Teaching Resources

Introduction

Lesson Development
Stage I

Stage II

Stage III

Conclusion

Reflection of the lesson

b) Explain five ways that you can evaluate the attainment of lesson objectives. (10 Marks)

QUESTION FIVE (20 MARKS)

a) Identify and describe the role of any five critical resources that a teacher must have to be effective in
delivering a powerful lesson (10 Marks)
b) Compare and contrast the higher order cognitive ski?l and the lower order skill as categorized by
Benjamin Bloom (The Bloom Taxonomy) (l OMarks)

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