English Test 97
Directions for Questions from 1 to 4:
The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
Entering the teaching profession is most challenging in the early moments when one is unacquainted with what lies ahead. To have mastered the
role of student in a school does not lead naturally to an easy execution of the role of teacher. Indeed, new teachers often experience their
students as unpredictable; many wonder if they will ever be able to gain a feeling of control over “the classroom”.
Soon, however, after a few years of stumbling they gain a mastery of the textbooks and their associated pedagogical devices. They begin to see a
repetitive pattern in the way that students tend to respond to the certain problems and issues and, most importantly, they begin to remember
which of their responses were effective in which contexts. The key to their success is confinement.
They must learn within the already determined environment of the textbook to focus student attention on the key issues, which in linked sequence
provide the essence of a stage of the mastery of a discipline. This isolation and clear pedagogical linking of the important stuff also provides the
instructor with a defensible matrix of expectations against which fair evaluation can take place.
Essential to the teacher, and somewhat available in the intellectual structure of the textbook, is a refined developmental sense of what is
appropriate at which age level. Given the body of material a teacher must cover, time demands that repetition be liminated and that only those
things, which are age appropriate, no more and no less, be the stuff of each year’s work. The teacher’s willingness to commit himself to being part
of a team by working within the specific segment of the curricular pie for which he is responsible is a significant sign of professional maturity. To
know the sequences of instruction and to know his place in them increases the degree of predic