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Contemporary Teaching Strategies
Mastery Learning
Integrated Method or Interdisciplinary Teaching
Team Teaching
Programmed Instruction
Learner-Centered Constructivist Approach
Modular Approach
Online/Distance Education
Strategies of Teaching
Mastery Learning
What is Mastery Learning?
Based on Benjamin Bloom’s Mastery of Learning, mastery learning is a teacher paced group instruction, one-to-one tutoring or self paced learning with programmed materials.
Mastery Learning is an instructional method that presumes all children can learn if they are provided with the appropriate learning conditions. Specifically, mastery learning is a method whereby students are not advanced to a subsequent learning objective until they demonstrate proficiency with the current one.
Role of the Teacher:
directs group-based instructional techniques.
Regularly correcting mistakes of students along learning paths.
Evaluates students using diagnostic or formative test.
Desired Outcome
Students must show evidence of understanding of material before moving to the next lesson
Evidence of high achievement
Integrated Method or Interdisciplinary Teaching
Interdisciplinary teaching is a method, or set of methods, used to teach a unit across different curricular disciplines.
The basic building block of interdisciplinary teaching is known as a theme, thematic unit, or unit.
Interdisciplinary teaching is all about simultaneous application of knowledge, ideas, and/or values of a domain in multiple academic domains.
Impart knowledge using integration of content and skills from several disciplines to teach one particular discipline.
Interdisciplinary methods work to create connections between traditionally discrete disciplines such as mathematics, the sciences, social studies or history, and English language arts.
Definition
The seventh grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies teachers might work together to form an interdisciplinary unit on rivers.
The local river system would be the unifying idea. The English teacher would link it to Language Arts by
studying river vocabulary and teaching students how to do a research report.
The science teacher might teach children about the life systems that exist in the river
The Social Studies teacher might help students research the local history and peoples who used the river for food and transport.
Example:
Answers educational problems like fragmentation and isolated skill instruction
Train students on thinking and reasoning
Help us handle knowledge transfer
Desired Outcome
Team Teaching
Team teaching involves a group of instructors working purposefully, regularly,
and cooperatively to help a group of students learn.
Different Formats of Team Teaching Teams comprise staff members who may
represent different areas of subject expertise but who share the same group of students and a common planning period to prepare for the teaching.
two or more teachers teach the same group at the same time
a team shares a common group of students, shares planning for instruction but team members teach different sub-groups within the whole group
planning is shared, but teachers each teach their own specialism or their own skills area to the whole group
Encourages innovations and experiments
Improved quality of teaching
Spread responsibilities, encourages creativity, deepens friendship, builds community among teachers.
Team teaching can lead to better student performance
Advantages
Some teachers are rigid personality types or may be wedded to a single method.
Some dislike the other teachers on the team.
Team teaching makes more demands on time and energy.
Disadvantages
Programmed Instruction
Programmed instruction, method of presenting new subject matter to students in a graded sequence of controlled steps. Students work through the programmed material by themselves at their own speed and after each step, test their comprehension by answering an examination question or filling in a diagram. They are then immediately shown the correct answer or given additional information.
Computers and other types of teaching machines are often used to present the material.
The teaching machine is composed of mainly a program, which is a system of combined teaching and test items that carries the student gradually through the material to be learned. The "machine" is composed by a fill-in-the-blank method on either a workbook or in a computer. If the subject is correct, he/she gets reinforcement and moves on to the next question. If the answer is incorrect, the subject studies the correct answer to increase the chance of getting reinforced next time.
Teachers Role
Monitor student progress on programmed materials
Assess the effectiveness of all programs
Provide individualized tutoring
Motivate students to participate in programmed activities
Benefits
Immediate knowledge of results
Individualized learning
Expert instruction
Learner-Centered Constructivist
Approach
Constructivism is a theory of knowledge that argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from an interaction between their experiences and their ideas.
Constructivist teaching is based on the belief that learning occurs as learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge construction rather than passively receiving information.
Learner always builds upon knowledge that a
student already knows. This prior knowledge is called schema
What is the emphasis of constructivist approach?
Teacher leads through questions and activities to discover.
Discuss, appreciate and verbalize the new knowledge.
Prompts and facilitate discussion
Role of the teacher
According to Audrey Gray, the characteristics of a constructivist classroom are as follows:
the learners are actively involved the environment is democratic the activities are interactive and student-
centered the teacher facilitates a process of learning
in which students are encouraged to be responsible and autonomous
Examples of constructivist activities
Experimentation
Research projects
Field trips
Films
Class discussions
Students learn how to learn by giving them the initiative for their own learning experiences.
Desired outcome
Modular Approach
What is a module?
Module is a unit of work in a course of instruction that is virtually self-containedand a method of teaching that is based on the building up skills and knowledgein discrete units.
STRUCTURE OF MODULE : The titleThe Introduction.
The overview. The objectives
The instruction to the users.The pre-test evaluation and feedback.The learning activities.The formative test, evaluation and feedbackThe summative evaluation and feedback.
ADVANTAGES
Learning became more effective. Users study the modules in their own working
environment. Users can study without disturbing the normal duties
and responsibilities Modules can be administered to single use, small group
or large group. Modules are flexible so that implementation can be
made by a variety of patterns. It is more appropriate to mature students It enables the learner to have a control over his
learning Accept greater responsibility for learning.
Online/Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom.
Technologies used in delivery
The types of available technologies used in distance education are divided into two groups:
Synchronous Asynchronous
Synchronous technology is a mode of delivery where all participants are "present" at the same time. It resembles traditional classroom teaching methods despite the participants being located remotely. It requires a timetable to be organized.
The asynchronous mode of delivery is where participants access course materials on their own schedule and so is more flexible. Students are not required to be together at the same time.
Benefits:
Expanding access
Alleviate capacity constraints
Making money from emerging markets
Catalyst for institutional transformation