Instructional strategies Flashcards
Direct instruction:
Task-oriented but relaxed environment with a clear focus on academic goals
* Clear instructional goals and high
teacher monitoring
* Structured learning activities
* Immediate academically oriented
feedback
Indirect Instruction:
- Teacher control of the learning process becomes shared with students
- Content presented holistically
- Student thinking, feeling, or interaction skills are built into learning experiences
- Individual nature of student abilities, interests and needs receive more
consideration
Teaching strategies (sometimes called approaches to teaching)
organize instruction so that
teaching functions are performed in
different ways
Teaching strategies: (Hows)
*How content is selected
* How tasks are communicated
* How the content progresses from one level to the next
* How the student is provided with feedback and evaluation
Teaching model examples:
-Movement education
-TGFU
-Sport education
SPECTRUM OF TEACHING STYLES -MOSSTON & ASHWORTH (2002) Style A,B,C,D,E,F,G
A- Command
B-Practice
C-Reciprocal
D-Self-check
E-Inclusion
F-Guided discovery
G-Divergent
H- Indvidual
I-learned iniated
J-Self-teaching
Style A: Command
-Teacher makes all decisions
Style B: Practice
- Students work in pairs, one
performs the other provides feedback
Style C: Reciprocal
- Students work in pairs, one performs the other provides feedback
Style D: Self-check
- Students assess their own performance against criteria
Style E: Inclusion
- Teacher planned, student monitors their own work
Style F: Guided Discovery
- Students solve teacher set
movement problems with assistance
Style G: Divergent
- Students solve problems without
assistance from the teacher
Style H: Individual
- Teacher
determines the content. Students
plans own program with teacher as
the advisor
Style I:
Learner Initiated - Students plan own program with teacher as the
advisor
Style J: Self-Teaching
- Student takes
full responsibility for the learning
process
Mosston’s styles- ISSUES
-Rarely does a teacher teach an entire lesson with one style
-Each teacher function involves the same set of decisions