Teaching Approach, Strategy, Method & Technique

2. Indirect/Exploratory Approach

a. Inquiry Method

- We will never be able to help children learn if we tell them everything they need to know, rather we must provide them opportunities to explore, inquire and discover new learning.

b. Problem Solving Method

- Is a teaching strategy that employs the scientific method in searching for information. This method is used often in science and mathematics classes.

c. Project Method

- In the project method, learners solve a practical problem over a period of several days or weeks.

d. Cooperative Learning

- Method in which students works in a groups or teams to help each other to learn.

e. Peer Tutoring/Peer Teaching

- Is commonly employed when the teacher requests the older, brighter, and more cooperative member of the class to tutor (coach, teach, instruct) other classmates.

e. Direct teaching approach vs Indirect/Guided teaching approach

- In a direct teaching approach, the teacher directly tells or shows or demonstrates what is to be taught while in the guided approach teacher guides the learner to discover things for himself.

d. Constructivist approach vs Banking approach

- In the constructivist approach, students are expected to construct knowledge and meaning out of what they are taught. In the banking approach, the teacher deposits knowledge into the empty minds of students.

FORMS OF PEER TUTORING

i. Instructional tutoring – Older students help younger ones on one-to-one or one-to-a group basis.

ii. Same age tutoring – this arrangement works well with the children who can act as interactive pairs, i.e, more able ones to assist the less able ones.

iii. MOnitorialTutoring – the class may be divided into groups and monitors are assigned to lead each group each group. This frees the teacher from the whole class monitoring to attend to others while the assigned tutor monitors and supervises the rest.

b. Demonstration Method

As the name implies, in the demonstration method the teacher or an assigned student or group shows how a process is done while the students become observers.

3. MEtacognitive approach – The teaching process brings the learner to the process of thinking

4. Problem-based approach – As the name implies, the teaching process is focused on problems.

Teaching Method – is a systematic way of doing something. It implies an orderly logical arrangement of steps. It is more procedural.

Teaching Technique – is a well-defined procedure used to accomplish specific activity or task. It is a teachers particular style or tricked used to accomplish an immediate objective.

Other Teaching Approaches

1. Research-based approach – As the name implies, teaching and learning are anchored on research findings.

2. Whole Child Approach – The learning process itself takes into account not only the academic needs of learners, but also their emotional, psychological, spiritual and developmental needs.

Example of Teaching Approaches

A. Teacher-Centered

Subject-centered

Teacher-dominated

Banking-Approach

Collaborative approach

Indirect teaching approach

B. Learner-Centered

Learner-centered

Interactive

Constructivist

Individualistic Approach

Direct-Teaching Approach

Teaching Approach – is a set of principles, beliefs or ideas about the nature of learning which is translated into the classroom. It springs from a teachers own philosophy of education, the nature of education, the role of the teacher and the role of the student.

Teaching Strategy – is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. Strategy applies to many disparate fields such as military strategy, economic strategy, teaching strategy and the like.

b. Subject matter-centered approach vs. Learner centered

- Subject matter-centered, the teacher does what he/she planned without necessarily considering learners interest, concerns and situations while in the learner-centered, the teacher makes his/her adjustments in the lesson plans in order to accommodate learners interest and concerns.

a. Teacher-centered approach vs Learner-Centered Approach

– In Teacher-centered approach, teacher is perceived to be the only reliable source of information in contrast to the learner-centered in which learner is an important resource because he/she knows something and is therefore capable of sharing something.

Methods of Teaching

1. Direct/Expository

a. Direct Instruction/Lecture Method

Direct instruction is aimed at helping students acquire procedural knowledge which is exercised in the performance of some task. Procedural knowledge refers to skills needed in the performance of the task. Examples are focusing the microscope, doing powerpoint presentation, playing basketball, sewing a pair of pajamas etc.

iv. Structural Tutoring – definite procedure is followed. Highly structured tutoring is administered by trained tutors.

v. Semi-structured tutoring – Tutor guides his/her tutee through a carefully planned learning guide but is free to modify according to the tutees own interests and skills.

c. Interactive vs Teacher dominated

- Interactive classroom will have more student talk and less teacher talk. Students are given the opportunity to interact with teacher and other students. In a teacher-dominated classroom only the teachers voice is heard. He/she is the sole dispenser of the information.

f. Partner Learning

- As the name of this method implies, this is a learning with a partner. A student chooses partner from his/her classmates. This is also mean assigning “study buddy”. (The teacher who is after the learning of every student may assign the “study buddy”)

Teaching Approach, Strategy, Method & Technique