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Which resource does the NFG suggest for teaching history?Read the answer and worked solution →How should social equality be clarified for students?Read the answer and worked solution →Because class and cultural differences create biases, teaching needs to be what?Read the answer and worked solution →The NFG sees teaching as a chance for teachers and students to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does supplementary classroom material increase for the teacher?Read the answer and worked solution →Effective social science teaching is crucially linked to the functioning of what?Read the answer and worked solution →To move from rote learning to project work, how must the teacher assess understanding?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the NFG want for in-service training of social science teachers?Read the answer and worked solution →The NFG says use of Teachers' Handbooks in social sciences should be what?Read the answer and worked solution →An empowered teacher can best address which problems?Read the answer and worked solution →The NFG wants textbooks to be more suggestive than what?Read the answer and worked solution →Social science teaching should give a child the ability to do what, per the NFG?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scholars gave the definition of critical thinking as an intellectually disciplined process in 1987?Read the answer and worked solution →Who proposed in 1941 that critical thinking has three elements?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of Glaser's three elements of critical thinking?Read the answer and worked solution →Who compiled sources in 1994 extending critical thinking beyond logic to empathy and collaboration?Read the answer and worked solution →Which set describes the habits of mind of a strong critical thinker?Read the answer and worked solution →One definition calls critical thinking disciplined thinking informed by what?Read the answer and worked solution →A 2014 meta-analysis of teaching critical thinking stressed exposing students to what?Read the answer and worked solution →A 1995 review found that faculty tended to aim at facts and concepts at which level of cognition?Read the answer and worked solution →McPeck (1981) described critical thinking as the skill and propensity for activity with what?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which resource does the NFG suggest for teaching history?

  1. Replicas of artefacts
  2. Ready-made guidebooks
  3. Printed answer keys
  4. Model test papers
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Correct answer: A. Replicas of artefacts

The paper suggests audio-visual material such as photographs, charts, maps and replicas of archaeological and material cultures.

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How should social equality be clarified for students?

  1. Lived community experiences
  2. Memorised definitions
  3. Legal clauses alone
  4. One textbook example
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Correct answer: A. Lived community experiences

Concepts are best clarified through the lived experiences of individuals and communities in the child's milieu.

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Because class and cultural differences create biases, teaching needs to be what?

  1. Strictly scripted
  2. Open-ended, flexible
  3. Speed-focused only
  4. Exam-driven only
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Correct answer: B. Open-ended, flexible

Since differences generate biases and prejudices in the classroom, the approach needs to be open-ended.

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