TN TET Paper 1: Child Development and Pedagogy Test - 2 - TN TET MCQ

If a student passes a comment, then the teacher must ignore the comment and continue taking class. 

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences emphasizes the unique abilities of each individual that removes the idea of valuing intelligence as a single general ability for all. According to him, the learners should not be restricted to one modality of learning. As per his theory, intelligence is a physiological ability of processing information, activated in a cultural setting to reach the specific solution of a problem.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'The unique abilities of each individual.'

Playgrounds are essential safe spaces where children can be themselves and express their fun-loving nature while developing crucial cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills.

A punishment can never help in making an emotional connect with the children. So, this option is NOT TRUE for corporal punishment.

In lower classes, the play-way method of teaching is based on Psychological principles of development and growth. Psychology is something arising in a mind or is related to the mental or emotional state of a person.
So, Play-way methods are such that can affect the cognitive or mental development of the children. They start perceiving, thinking and gains understanding.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Psychological principles of development and growth.'

Socialization is an important process for the functioning and continuation of society. It is a process of learning the rules, habits, and values of a group to which a person belongs whether it is family, friends, colleagues, or any other group.

Context is the spoken or written form of material that can be used for teaching Grammar.

'Education-of-all-in-schools-for-all' is a tagline for Inclusive education.
Inclusive education is a platform that promotes and believes that every child should get equal opportunity irrespective of caste, creed, colour, religion and whether a child is a normal or special case. 
It mainly focuses on providing education to special children, along with children with non-special needs. It welcomes special-needs children to promote equality.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Inclusive education.

Playgrounds are essential safe spaces where children can be themselves and express their fun-loving nature while developing crucial cognitive, physical, social, and emotional skills.

A teacher, after preparing a question paper, checks whether the questions test specific Testing objectives. He is concerned primarily about the question paper's validity.

Cognition is what we are thinking, what is going on in our minds. Cognition is what is coming to know more, or what we are trying to remember that we already knew.
Hence, the correct answer is "Coming to know".

Student-Centered Learning, also known as learner-centered education, broadly encompasses methods of teaching that require learners to actively construct their own knowledge and puts the responsibility for learning on them. 

Listening skills of the students are improved because students listen to stories with full interest and enjoy them.

According to Piaget, after the age of seven, children move into the second stage of morality from the first stage of the morality of constraint, and this stage is known as the Morality of Cooperation. 
The Morality of Cooperation stage is defined as the stage in which children can see from the other's point of view. They start recognising that the rules are not absolute they can be changed as per the necessary situations.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Morality of Cooperation.'

Gender refers to the socially constructed differences between men and women. It refers to the masculine and feminine qualities, behavior, roles, and responsibilities that society upholds. Gender can be changed / re-oriented.
Characteristics by which a teacher can reduce the gender gap among children:

• In a classroom, teachers should have to treat boys and girls equally.
• Making the environment of the classroom flexible for all, all as treated as students instead of girls or a boy.
• Teachers should provide equal opportunities to both girls and boys.
• There is no place for particularized activities for girls and some for boys. Everything is for both.

So, option (3) is the correct answer.

Preoperational stage is the second stage of child development between the ages of 2 - 7 years. The language and the vocabulary of the child are developed and they also start to symbolize things.

Inclusive education is where all the students are placed together in age-appropriate general education classes irrespective of any challenges they have. So, students with disabilities receive an education with their peers without disabilities, or we can say, student differences are accepted. So, an inclusive school is committed to improving the learning outcomes of all students irrespective of their capabilities. This special education as a system of education in India began way back in the 1880s.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'is committed to improving the learning outcomes of all students irrespective of their capabilities'.

Gender refers to the socially and culturally constructed system that attributes meaning to what it means to be a male or a female in a particular society.

Motivation, in the process of learning, creates interest for learning among young learners.

Learning can be enhanced if situations from the real world are brought into the class in which students interact with each other and the teacher facilitates. Children grasp easily when a teacher makes them understand the concepts by relating them to real-life experiences. In this way, they not only create interests in their subject but also retain concepts for a longer time.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Situations from the real world are brought into the class in which students interact with each other and the teacher facilitates.'

The reasoning is inherently a thinking process. Man has recourse to reasoning in order to obtain reliable knowledge. He attempts to comprehend the world around him by applying the faculty of reasoning. There are two types of reasoning deductive and inductive.

National Literacy Mission was started by Indian government in 1988 to educate people of 15 - 35 age groups over an eighty-year period.

According to Piaget, after the age of seven, children move into the second stage of morality from the first stage of the morality of constraint, and this stage is known as the Morality of Cooperation. 
The Morality of Cooperation stage is defined as the stage in which children can see from the other's point of view. They start recognising that the rules are not absolute they can be changed as per the necessary situations.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Morality of Cooperation.'

• Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which men and women are not treated equally.
• The treatment may arise from distinctions regarding biology, psychology, or cultural norms prevalent in the society.
• Gender inequality is experienced differently across different cultures. 
• In practice, it means discrimination against women in various aspects such as access to education, job or even free mobility. 

Therefore, the above example is of gender inequality. 

The techniques required to motivate students of a class are: setting induction, use of blackboard to show illustrations as well as students in the active participation. Hence, option 4 is the correct answer.

Training in advance of normal maturation is beneficial or harmful depending on the method used in training. If the methods used are forceful, then it can be harmful, but if the methods used in the training are normal and fit for the person, then it will be beneficial.

Education intends to promote all-round development of the student. Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) is to be carried out in relation to students’ cognitive, affective and psycho-motor growth.

If a student does a mistake in language comprehensive-type questions, the teacher would provide appropriate questions with solutions and discuss the mistakes in detail.

A teacher collects and reads the work of the class, then plans and adjusts the next lesson to meet the student's needs. He/She is doing an Assessment for learning. Assessment for learning is also known as diagnostic and formative assessments. It is conducted for the purpose of determining the skills and abilities of the students or their progress. So, teachers can adjust their classrooms as per the individual needs of the students. In this way, students are provided with their feedback also.
Hence, the correct answer is, 'Assessment for learning.'

Constructivism is centered on the idea that human knowledge and learning are actively constructed by the learner, not passively received from the environment.