COSEE California Communicating Ocean Sciences Session 3: Comparing Teaching Approaches.
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Communicating Ocean Sciences
Session 3: Comparing Teaching Approaches
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Session 3 objectives Explore the advantages and limitations of
different teaching approaches Understand that everyone learns differently See the importance of incorporating and
balancing a number of teaching approaches Learn about the “learning cycle” and how to
use it in constructing a lesson Understand that effective teaching employs a
sequence of different teaching approaches to achieve greater learning
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Discussion question
In your own education, what teaching approaches do you remember responding best and worst to?
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Station debrief
Reflect on your responses to each activity
Strengths/weaknesses
Favorite station(s), why?
Goals related to different teaching approaches
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Goals of open-ended exploration• Introduce students to a new subject area• Generate questions• Generate student interest and foster positive
attitudes about science• Encourage students to work together without
direct teacher instruction• Develop and identify concepts, processes
and skills, raise questions and problems• Provide a common base of experiences• Practice observation skills
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Goals of structured activity
• Introduce concepts, vocabulary, processes, skills, and investigation methods
• Guide students toward specific discoveries
• Provide a common base of experiences• Provide successful activities with
predictable outcomes
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Goals of problem-solving challenge/application• Model what scientists do• Provide a sense of accomplishment• Challenge students’ conceptual
understanding and skills by applying them to new situations
• Develop deeper and broader understanding through real world applications
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Goals of read and answer
• Provide specific content information and vocabulary on a topic
• Extend the information from an activity into descriptions of related experiences that are impractical in a classroom setting
• Provide alternative explanations and make connections into other subject areas
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Sequence of stations
How did you feel about the sequence in which you visited the stations?
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The Learning Cycle
Invitation
Application Exploration
Concept Invention
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The Learning Cycle
Invitation
ExplorationReflection
ConceptApplication Invention
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The Learning Cycle
Invitation: students are offered a question or a problem to solve, they may make an observation or watch a demonstration, can also be a hands-on experience which sets the stage for learning
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The Learning Cycle
Exploration: Open-ended exploration of real phenomena, discussion about their discoveries, ideas, and questions that arise. Can be hands-on or more abstract.
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The Learning Cycle
Concept Invention: With interest and attention focused, introduce concepts, or methods to solve problems and construct new meanings.
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The Learning Cycle
Application: Armed with new ideas, students apply this knowledge and skills to solving a problem or meeting a challenge.
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The Learning Cycle
Reflection: Students reflect on their learning and compare new ideas to alternative explanations. They make connections and construct new conceptual frameworks. They analyze how they arrived at their current understanding.
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The Learning Cycle and Session 3Invitation: The initial questions posed at the beginning of the lessonExploration: The station activities and discussionConcept Invention: The introduction to the learning cycle modelApplication: The current and following activities. Further applications will occur in subsequent lessons in this course.
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Putting the Learning Cycle to use in the classroom• Can be a valuable tool for designing
lessons• Ineffectiveness of lessons is often due
to teaching concepts and vocabulary before exploration is allowed
• No application opportunity can lead to low retention
• Can help guide on-the-spot decisions while teaching
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Using the Learning Cycle as a flexible tool• Successful lessons don’t have to
include every stage of the cycle• May be cycles within cycles in one
lesson• Sometimes students will have
explored amply before class and will be prepared to begin at the concept introduction phase
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Detrimental focus on only one phase of the cycle
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Model of a Learning Cycle-based Lesson
Sand on Stage
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Model of a Learning Cycle-based Lesson
What are the advantages of presenting the lesson in a Learning Cycle way?
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Model of a Learning Cycle-based Lesson
Science is often presented in a non-Learning Cycle-based way
The Learning Cycle should be viewed as a cycle--be flexible!
“The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.”
--Thorstein Veblen Economist
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