Bihar STET Teaching Art Questions: The 30 Marks You Should Not Lose

In the Bihar STET Computer Science paper, Teaching Art is the easiest part to score in — and the part most candidates prepare last. About 30 of the 150 questions in the November 2025 shifts came from it, and the questions are short facts that return year after year: who started microteaching, what Bloom's highest level is, which of Piaget's stages a Class 11 student is in. This guide collects those facts in one place.

Key takeaways

• About 30 Teaching Art questions in the 50-mark general part (2025).
• The core: levels and phases of teaching, maxims, methods, Bloom's taxonomy, microteaching, learning theories, evaluation, inclusive education and policy.
• Most questions ask "who gave" or "what is" — a fact list works better than long reading.
• Learn the names: Herbart, Morrison, Hunt, Kilpatrick, Armstrong, Skinner, Piaget, Vygotsky, Bloom.

Teaching: levels, phases and maxims

Levels of teaching. Memory level (Herbart) → understanding level (Morrison) → reflective level (Hunt). The reflective level is the highest: students solve problems and think for themselves.

Phases of teaching (Jackson). Pre-active (planning), interactive (teaching in class) and post-active (evaluation and feedback). Writing objectives and a lesson plan is pre-active work.

Maxims of teaching. Known to unknown, simple to complex, concrete to abstract, particular to general, whole to part, and analysis to synthesis. In a computer science class, showing a real keyboard before defining an input device is "concrete to abstract".

Methods of teaching

A frequent question: which method is best for introducing a new concept? The inductive method, because it builds the rule from the learner's own examples.

Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom (1956) divided educational objectives into three domains: cognitive (knowledge and thinking), affective (feelings and values, classified by Krathwohl) and psychomotor (physical skills).

The cognitive levels in the 2001 revision by Anderson and Krathwohl are: remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create — create being the highest. In the original 1956 order, evaluation was the highest.

Microteaching

Microteaching began at Stanford University in 1963 (D. W. Allen and colleagues) and was introduced in India by D. D. Tiwari. One skill is practised at a time with 5–10 students for 5–10 minutes. The Indian cycle takes 36 minutes: teach 6, feedback 6, re-plan 12, re-teach 6, re-feedback 6. Typical skills: introducing a lesson, questioning, stimulus variation, reinforcement, explaining and blackboard writing.

Learning theories and development

Adolescence (about 12–18 years) was called a period of "storm and stress" by Stanley Hall — a common question.

Evaluation

• Formative — during teaching, to improve learning.
• Summative — at the end, to grade or certify.
• Diagnostic — to find the cause of a weakness, followed by remedial teaching.
• Reliability — the test gives consistent results. Validity — it measures what it claims to measure. Objectivity — the examiner's opinion does not change the score.
• Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) — assessment through the year, of scholastic and co-scholastic areas.

Inclusive education and policy

• Inclusive education — all children, including children with disabilities, learn in the same classroom.
• Learning disabilities — dyslexia (reading), dysgraphia (writing), dyscalculia (mathematics).
• RTE Act 2009 — free and compulsory education for ages 6–14 under Article 21A; 25% of seats in private schools for weaker sections; Section 17 bans physical punishment.
• NEP 2020 — a 5+3+3+4 school structure; Classes 11–12 belong to the secondary stage (ages 14–18).
• Kothari Commission (1964–66) — "the destiny of India is now being shaped in her classrooms".

Common traps

Two versions of Bloom. If the options include both "evaluation" and "create", the question is about the 2001 revision and the answer is create. If "create" is absent and the question says 1956 or "original", the answer is evaluation.

Bipolar and tripolar. John Adams described teaching as a bipolar process between teacher and student. The tripolar view — teacher, student and curriculum — is most often credited to John Dewey in exam keys, and to Bloom in some books. Read all four options before choosing.

Inductive and deductive. Inductive moves from examples to the rule; deductive applies a given rule to examples. A quick way to remember: in the inductive method the learner is led into the rule.

Formative and diagnostic. Both happen during the course, but formative evaluation improves learning in general, while diagnostic testing looks for the cause of a specific difficulty and is followed by remedial teaching.

Reliability and validity. A test can be reliable without being valid — a scale that always reads two kilograms heavy is consistent but wrong. Validity is the stronger requirement.

Practice questions

1. Who proposed the reflective level of teaching? Hunt.
2. The highest level of the revised Bloom's taxonomy? Create.
3. Project method was introduced by? Kilpatrick.
4. Concept of scaffolding is linked to? Vygotsky.
5. Re-planning time in the Indian microteaching cycle? 12 minutes.
6. Evaluation done during teaching is? Formative.
7. Difficulty in writing is called? Dysgraphia.
8. NEP 2020 school structure? 5+3+3+4.

For the same topic seen from another exam, our DSSSB teaching methodology guide has more practice questions. The full pattern of Paper II is in the syllabus and exam pattern guide, and when to study this part is in the preparation strategy.

Study tip: write each name in this guide on one side of a card and the idea on the other, and go through the pack for ten minutes every two or three days. Spaced revision of this kind fixes names far better than reading the same page for an hour.

Summary

1. About 30 Teaching Art marks in 2025 — prepare them early.
2. Levels: Herbart, Morrison, Hunt. Phases: pre-active, interactive, post-active.
3. Bloom's revised top level: create. Microteaching: Stanford 1963, 36-minute Indian cycle.
4. Piaget's formal operational stage fits Classes 11–12.
5. RTE 2009 and NEP 2020 facts are asked every year.