Teaching Methods and Strategies

Methods and Strategies in Teaching

• Objectives: Identify different teaching methods and strategies. Apply methods and strategies that meet students' emotional and psychological needs.

Learner-Centered Instructional Strategies

• Description: Learner-centered instruction emphasizes activities that enable students to take an active role in their learning. This can include self-teaching, collaboration, reflection, and problem-solving.

• Focus: Support student development using varied activities. Help students solve authentic problems and promote critical thinking at both the individual and group level.

Cooperative Learning

• Description: A teaching approach where students work in groups to explore important questions or develop projects. Collaboration is a key part of the learning process.

• Forms: This takes various forms, such as online group assignments with students from multiple schools.

KWL Charts

• Use: KWL stands for "Know, Want to know, Learned". Students use this chart/graphic organizer as a study guide.

• Purpose: To direct study.

Discussions

• Description: Ongoing classroom conversation between teachers and students.

• Purpose: Enhance student skills and abilities.

Role Play

• Description: A learning method where textual content is presented through drama or acting.

• Aim: To facilitate learning outcomes.

Case Studies

• Description: An instructional method (not a theory) using assigned scenarios. Students observe, analyze, record, implement, conclude, summarize, and recommend.

• Use: Used as analysis and discussion tools.

Jigsaw

• Description: Active learning strategy where group members share responsibility for each other's learning.

• Skills: This involves critical thinking and social skills.

Experiments

• Description: A method that involves designing experiments and student participation. Students actively engage in either designing experiments or taking part in experiments.

Simulations

• Description: An animated model that mimics real-world systems like a bank, assembly line, or hospital.

• Application: Mimics the operation of existing or proposed systems.

Laboratory

• Description: Observations, practice, experiments, and exploration take place in a dedicated environment.

• Participation: Can be individual or group-based.

Index Cards

• Use: 101 potential ways to use index cards exist; teachers can ask students to develop activities using index cards, and guidelines can be established together.

• Examples: Two truths and a lie, random name picker, vocabulary strips, or reading response activity.

Q&A Session

• Description: A learning strategy where a facilitator presents a topic. Students can ask questions and respond to each other's questions to enhance their discussion.

Active Learning Activities

• Constructivism: Students actively learn by building upon prior knowledge, creating their own understanding, and actively participating in learning rather than passively receiving.

• Focus Shift: Focus is moved towards student knowledge construction rather than transmission of knowledge.

• Description (Bonwell and Eison): Active learning involves students doing things and thinking about what they are doing.

• Description (Felder and Brent): Active learning is anything course-related requiring students to do more than just listen and take notes.

Student-Centered Learning

• Focus: The learning process centers around the various learning needs of students.

Problem-Based Learning

• Description: Students tackle problems or scenarios that involve formulating questions, evidence analysis, existing theory connection, conclusion derivation, and reflecting on the learning experience.

Cooperative Learning (reiteration)

• General Term: A term for various small group interactive lessons.

• Group Work: Students work together in small groups to accomplish academic tasks.

• Positive Interdependence: Students need to depend on each other to accomplish common goals.

Cooperative Learning Enhances Learning

• Motivation: Motivate students to learn content.

• Knowledge Construction: Students build their own understanding.

• Feedback: Provide formative feedback.

• Skills: Develop social and group skills.

• Positive Interactions: Promote positive interactions between students with varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Inquiry-Based Learning

• Description: Emphasizes student-led approach to discovering solutions or answers by critical thinking and problem solving. Focuses on questions, ideas and analysis by students, rather than transmission of information..

• In Inquiry-Based Classrooms: Students actively ask questions, plan investigations, conduct experiments, and analyze data to formulate conclusions.

• Teacher Point of View: Focuses on moving students beyond general curiosity and into realms of critical thinking and understanding.

Inductive Learning

• Description: Also known as discovery learning, a process where a learner discovers rules by observing examples, and uses personal observations and experiences to develop their own theory.

• Assessment: A means to estimate or create an evaluation function.

• Forms: Discovery learning, inquiry-based learning, problem-based learning, project-based learning, case-based learning are the teaching methods.

Explore various teaching methods and strategies focused on meeting students' emotional and psychological needs. This quiz covers learner-centered instructional strategies, cooperative learning approaches, and the use of KWL charts to enhance student engagement and critical thinking. Test your knowledge on effective teaching practices.