Teaching Strategies Flashcards
What are the different Teaching Strategies?
- Behaviourist
- Information Processing
- Cognitive Strategy
What is the focus of the Behaviourist teaching strategy?-
- What learner does that is observable
What does the Behaviourist Teaching Method stress?
- External Environment Shaping Behaviour
How should the teacher shape desired behaviour in the Behaviourist Teaching Method?
- Model Good Behaviour
- Positive Reinforce Desired Response
How is content organized in the Behaviourist Teaching Method?
- Broken down
- Difficult added gradually
- Build on success of student
Why is the Content broken down in the Behaviourist Teaching Method?
- So Student can complete Successfully
- Build on student success
What does the Information Processing Teaching Method Stress?
- Internal Cognitive Processing of the Learner
What do people who use the Information Processing Teaching Method Study?
- How learners select, use, interpret, and store information
How does knowledge of how learners process information help the teacher who uses the Information Processing Teaching Method?
- Selection of appropriate cues
- Design appropriate feedback
Describe the Cognitive Strategy Teaching Method?
- More Holistic Approach
What is the Cognitive Strategy Teaching Method primarily interested in?
How the Learner
- solves problems
- creates
- Learns how to learn
- applies what they learn
What does the teacher who uses the Cognitive Strategy teaching method study?
Role of Learner in:
- Mediating instructions
- Constructing personal meaning from learning experiences
What teaching methods are considered direct instruction models?
- Behaviourist
- Information Processing
Why would a teaching method be considered direct?
- Teacher identifies, and demonstrates what students are to do
What teaching method would be considered indirect?
- Cognitive Strategy