Transcript Methods of Teaching: Direct Teaching

Methods of Teaching: Direct Teaching
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What is it? P. 77
Direct instruction presents information directly through
lecturing, questioning, and demonstrating/modeling
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How do we do it? What do we use?
Five steps:
1. Anticipatory Set
2. Instruction
3. Guided Practice
4. Closure
5. Independent Practice
Example:
When teaching students how to use technology properly
Methods of Teaching:
Problem Based Learning 2
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What is it? P. 81
Teaching students thinking skills and decision
making skills
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How do we do it? What do we use?
-Dewey’s steps for problem solving (pg. 83) figure
3.2
-Three kinds of thinking (pg. 81) table 3.2
-Hints for teaching thinking (pg. 91)
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Example:
issues within a debate
Methods of Teaching: Inductive Thinking
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What is it?
-Teachers promote group discussion through questions
that follow three steps
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How do we do it? What do we use?
1. Teacher lists students responses to an opening
question
2. Students group their responses
3. Students label or categorize their groupings
-Utilize questions related to the topic at-hand
-wait time
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Example:
20 Questions: Who/What Am I?
Methods of Teaching: Cooperative Learning
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What is it?
A popular instructional strategy in which small groups work together
toward a common goal
How do we do it? What do we use?
How:
-students are assigned to groups
-group size should be 3-5 members
-the classroom is arranged to facilitate group interaction
-group process is taught or reviewed as heeded to assure that the
group runs smoothly
Use:
-roles
Example:
corners- each student moves to a corner representing a teacherdetermined alternative on a topic. Groups discuss the assigned topics,
then they listen and paraphrase ideas representing other corners
other ideas: round robin, round table, think-pair-share, numbered
heads together, jigsaw
Methods of Teaching: Role Playing
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What is it?
A method of problem solving that enables participants to
explore alternative solutions to a given problem. It is an
unrehearsed dramatic presentation, usually more appropriate
for children age 9 or older. It is especially useful for
controversial issues.
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How do we do it? What do we use?
You can draw from a piece of literature and act it out. This
helps students to remember and better relate to the text.
Also, give children a scenario and allow them to act it out in
order to help them understand what is right and wrong and
why.
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Example:
Role Play
Methods of Teaching: Simulation 6
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What is it?
Learning activities that present an artificial problem or
event. Tries to duplicate reality, but removes
possibility of injury or risk.
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How do we do it? What do we use?
Mostly used in intermediate grades. Computer-based
simulations are most common now, but other noncomputer-based simulations are just as great.
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Example:
Computer: Oregon Trail, Star Power, Seal Hunt, The
Pilgrims, Sail America, Stock Market
Non-Computer: voting, hospital, grocery store/market,
TABA (questioning to move students to concepts and
generalizations)