NES SECONDARY PROFESSIONAL
KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE PAPER 2026
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ Social Development. Answer: Interactions with people or the
environment
◉ Emotional Development. Answer: Processing and understanding
feelings
◉ Motor-Physical Play. Answer: Developing fine and gross motor
skills through movement
◉ Creative Thinking. Answer: Looking from a new perspective
Brainstorm, have a debate
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: Thinking or learning
◉ Social Play. Answer: learning to socialize with other children
◉ Visual Learning. Answer: Learning primarily by seeing things
,Written examples
◉ Visual Methods. Answer: Lessons using materials for students to
view.
maps, images, political cartoons, multimedia presentations and
graphs
◉ Societal Perspective. Answer: understanding that the neutral
bystander is influenced by the societal and cultural context;
generally realizes that different societies would have different
neutral perspectives
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and understands
that other people do not. She also understands that both her opinion
and the opinion of the other are influenced by larger institutions,
such as a family and culture.
◉ Expressive Play. Answer: learning to express their feelings by
manipulating objects
◉ Third-Party Perspective. Answer: seeing from one's own, others,
and a third person's perspective (neutral bystander, hence
,sometimes called the bystander perspective); generally keeps
multiple perspectives in mind at the same time
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She knows that
some other people don't like them, but that it's alright for two
people to hold different opinions about a subject.
◉ Self-Reflective Perspective. Answer: seeing, thinking, and feeling
from the other person's perspective (first signs of empathy);
generally still assumes the other perspectives are equally valid.
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She knows that
some other people don't like them and can begin to understand that
the other person's perspective is ok.
◉ Constructive Play. Answer: interacting with objects to create
things
◉ Critical Thinking. Answer: analysis and judgement
Design an experiment, determine important part of a word problem,
make a flowchart
, ◉ Undifferentiated Perspective. Answer: attributing one's own
perspective to everyone else's; generally having an inability to
attribute any other perspective to anyone else
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She thinks
everyone else loves them too.
◉ Reasoning and Planning. Answer: Solving problems and making
decisions
Create a model, demonstrate a method, make up a game
◉ Learning Style. Answer: The manner in which a student learns
best
Visual Learning
◉ Fantasy Play. Answer: using their imaginations to experiment with
new roles and situations
◉ Kinesthetic Learning / Tactile Learning. Answer: Learning
primarily by touching things or doing an activity
create and act out plays or skits
KNOWLEDGE PRACTICE PAPER 2026
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
◉ Social Development. Answer: Interactions with people or the
environment
◉ Emotional Development. Answer: Processing and understanding
feelings
◉ Motor-Physical Play. Answer: Developing fine and gross motor
skills through movement
◉ Creative Thinking. Answer: Looking from a new perspective
Brainstorm, have a debate
◉ Cognitive Development. Answer: Thinking or learning
◉ Social Play. Answer: learning to socialize with other children
◉ Visual Learning. Answer: Learning primarily by seeing things
,Written examples
◉ Visual Methods. Answer: Lessons using materials for students to
view.
maps, images, political cartoons, multimedia presentations and
graphs
◉ Societal Perspective. Answer: understanding that the neutral
bystander is influenced by the societal and cultural context;
generally realizes that different societies would have different
neutral perspectives
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and understands
that other people do not. She also understands that both her opinion
and the opinion of the other are influenced by larger institutions,
such as a family and culture.
◉ Expressive Play. Answer: learning to express their feelings by
manipulating objects
◉ Third-Party Perspective. Answer: seeing from one's own, others,
and a third person's perspective (neutral bystander, hence
,sometimes called the bystander perspective); generally keeps
multiple perspectives in mind at the same time
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She knows that
some other people don't like them, but that it's alright for two
people to hold different opinions about a subject.
◉ Self-Reflective Perspective. Answer: seeing, thinking, and feeling
from the other person's perspective (first signs of empathy);
generally still assumes the other perspectives are equally valid.
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She knows that
some other people don't like them and can begin to understand that
the other person's perspective is ok.
◉ Constructive Play. Answer: interacting with objects to create
things
◉ Critical Thinking. Answer: analysis and judgement
Design an experiment, determine important part of a word problem,
make a flowchart
, ◉ Undifferentiated Perspective. Answer: attributing one's own
perspective to everyone else's; generally having an inability to
attribute any other perspective to anyone else
Jessica loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. She thinks
everyone else loves them too.
◉ Reasoning and Planning. Answer: Solving problems and making
decisions
Create a model, demonstrate a method, make up a game
◉ Learning Style. Answer: The manner in which a student learns
best
Visual Learning
◉ Fantasy Play. Answer: using their imaginations to experiment with
new roles and situations
◉ Kinesthetic Learning / Tactile Learning. Answer: Learning
primarily by touching things or doing an activity
create and act out plays or skits
