Teaching Strategies and Methods Quiz

Teaching Strategies (Part 1)

• Teaching strategies are methods used to help students learn course content and achieve future goals.
• Learning outcomes include identifying teaching methods, listing advantages and limitations of each method, and comparing traditional methods with educational technology.
• Teaching methods include lectures, group assignments, industrial visits, live projects, expert lectures, case studies, seminars, role plays, brain storming, discussions, and more.
• Lecture is a highly structured method where a teacher verbally transmits information to learners. It's an older and frequently used approach.
• Advantages of lecture include its efficiency and cost-effectiveness in transmitting large amounts of information to many people quickly. It's also useful for presenting data patterns, main ideas, and information in unique ways. Lectures can also easily be supplemented with handouts or audiovisual aids.
• Disadvantages of lecture include its inefficiency for affective or psychomotor learning, its lack of learner involvement, and that it doesn't specifically consider individual learner differences.
• Group discussion is a teaching method where learners come together to exchange information, feelings, and opinions with each other and the teacher.
• Advantages of group discussion include enhancing learning in affective and cognitive domains, being both learner-centered and subject-centered, and stimulating learner thinking about issues and problems. It also encourages members to share their experiences, creating a less isolating environment, and fosters peer support and belonging.
• Disadvantages of group discussion include potential digressions from the topic, requiring skills to redirect learners, and it being more time-consuming than lectures.
• One-to-one instruction is personalized teaching to cater to individual learner needs.
• Advantages include meeting individual needs, being beneficial for all learning domains, and providing immediate feedback.
• Disadvantages include isolating the learner and potentially over-loading the learner if too much information is given.
• Demonstration is a teaching approach where a teacher shows the learners how to perform a specific skill.
• Advantages are that it's effective for psychomotor learning, engaging learners through multiple senses, and repeating the shown movement increases learner confidence, competence, and skill retention.
• Disadvantages include needing adequate time, keeping the audience small for practice and supervision, and increased equipment/space costs.
• Simulation and role modeling involve creating an artificial experience reflecting real-life conditions, while minimizing the risk taken in real life situations.
• Advantages include excellent psychomotor domain skill development, enhancing critical thinking, problem solving, and cognitive and affective capabilities. It provides active learner involvement in simulated scenarios and a safe learning environment.
• Disadvantages include the potential for expensiveness, unavailability for all learners, and requiring adequate preparation/time.
• Role play is where learners actively participate in an unrehearsed dramatization; playing an assigned character, realistically enacting the character's role.
• Advantages include providing opportunities to explore feelings and attitudes, bridging the understanding and feeling gap between learners and professionals. It also narrows role distances among patients and professionals.
• Disadvantages include limitations to small groups, tendency to have exaggerated roles, and causing discomfort.
• Role models provide examples of behavior and success to be imitated. Primarily used for affective domain behavior change.
• Advantages include implanting desired behaviors, enhancing skills like critical thinking and interpersonal interaction, and bridging theory and practice.
• Disadvantages include requiring rapport with the learner, potential for implanting unacceptable behaviors, and the possibility of creating role conflict.
• Remote learning occurs outside the campus environment, employing electronic learning methods, materials, and instruction. Primarily effective for cognitive learning.
• Advantages of remote learning include linking to multiple resources, encouraging independent and active learning, increased accessibility for nontraditional students, and enhancing critical/decision making.
• Disadvantages of remote learning include potential learner isolation due to a decentralized learning method, required computer access/internet connection, and limitations due to lack of adequate infrastructure.
• Gaming is an active learning form through competitive activities with predetermined rules.
• Advantages include improving cognitive function, increased retention, and adding variety.
• Disadvantages include excessive competitiveness for some learners, requiring small groups, and potential noise levels.
• Technology impacts teachers and learners by reducing information gaps, shifting teacher roles to facilitators, prioritizing critical thinking to memorization, encouraging hands-on approaches, affecting learner roles in health care, and increasing access to networks of fellow patients/providers.
• Cybersecurity concerns include the protection of financial and health information, patient portal oversight, and accessibility concerns, particularly for people with disabilities (digital divide).

Technology in Education

• Types of technologies include the World Wide Web/Internet, mobile technologies, social media, webcasts/web conferencing, e-mail & texting.
• World Wide Web is a global information network, accessible through the Internet.
• Mobile technologies offer interactive classrooms, location awareness, and collaboration.
• Social media supports networking, education, and student support through peer-to-peer support, expert engagement, enhancing understanding, developing critical thinking, and idea sharing. Common social media forms include Wikis, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Webcasts/Web conferencing (webinars) are live broadcasts, enabling real-time interaction across locations. Guidelines for webcasts/web conferences include allowing adequate time for event publicity, developing lesson plans ahead of time, ensuring proper staffing, providing materials, starting early, reducing background noise, keeping conversations focused, and following up with participants after the session.

Test your knowledge on various teaching strategies and methods. This quiz covers key characteristics, advantages, and limitations of teaching approaches such as lectures, demonstrations, and group learning. Explore how these methods impact student learning and achievement.