TEACHING STRATEGIES Flashcards
- It is an overall plan for a teaching – learning experience
- It involves the use of one or several methods of instruction to achieve the desired learning outcomes.
instructional method / strategy
Factors to consider when choosing teaching methods:
- Audience Characteristics
- Educator’s expertise
- Objectives of learning
- Potential for achieving learning outcomes
- Cost effectiveness
- Instructional setting
- Evolving technology
3 traditional teaching strategies
lecture, group discussion, one to one questioning
- a highly structured method to verbally transmit information directly to groups of learners for the purpose of instruction.
- should not be employed to give the learners the same information that they could read independently at another time and place.
Lecture method
Presenting info to an audience consist of: (3)
Clarification of facts
Explanation of Principles
Explanation of Relationships
Uses of lecture method:
- Transmit information
- Promote thinking
- Arouse interest, stir emotion
- Develop attitudes and values
- Provide opportunity for interaction with a role-model
- Train students to listen
Goal of lecturing:
Communication
Techniques in lecturing:
- Rapport
- Voice
- Gestures/body language
- Eye Contact
- Spontaneity
- Lecture outline
Advantages of lecture method:
1.Time-saving
2.Control of the topic
3.Repetition
4.Economical
5.Flexible group size
Disadvantages of lecture method:
1.One-way communication
2.Boredom
3.Short attention span and lower retention rate
4.Poor feedback
5.Requires skills
Parts of lecture method:
Introduction, body, conclusion
- topic is announced in advance and the class is asked to prepare to take part in the discussion
- learners exchange information, feelings and opinions with one another and with the teacher.
Group discussion
Advantages of group discussion:
▪ Enhances learning in both affective and cognitive
domains
▪ Both learner-centered and subject-centered
▪ Stimulates learners to think
▪ Encourages exchange of experiences
▪ Provides opportunities for sharing of ideas
Disadvantages of discussion:
▪ One or more members may dominate the discussion
▪ Easy to digress from the topic
▪ Less involvement for shy learners
▪ Requires skills to redirect learners
▪ Time consuming
- involves delivering information to meet the needs of individual learners
- moves learners from repeating the information that was shared to applying what they have just learned
Questioning
Functions of questioning: (2)
assess baseline of knowledge, review content
Types of questions:
- Factual
- Probing
- Multiple Choice
- Open-ended
- Discussion stimulating
- Questions that can guide problem solving
- Rhetorical
Advantages of quetsioning:
▪Pace and content of teaching can be tailored
▪Ideal as an intervention for initial assessment and ongoing evaluation
▪Good for teaching behaviors in all domains
▪ Suitable for teaching the disabled, low literate or educationally disadvantaged
▪Provides opportunity for immediate feedback between the teacher and the learner
Limitations of questioning:
▪The learner is isolated
▪Deprives learners of the opportunity to identify with others
▪Puts learner on the spot
▪May be interpreted by the learner as a technique to test their knowledge and skills
▪Learner may feel overwhelmed and anxious