Teaching Approaches, Methods, and Strategies Arvind Kr. Gill, Ph.D. and Kusum, Ph. D Approach
Teaching Approaches, Methods, and Strategies Arvind Kr. Gill, Ph.D. and Kusum, Ph. D Approach
Teaching Approaches, Methods, and Strategies Arvind Kr. Gill, Ph.D. and Kusum, Ph. D Approach
APPROACH
Broader than method
A set of ideas
Overall view or ideas to face a problem
Personal philosophy of teaching
Can also have many methods
Like the form or the way we teach or how we do it
Main approaches of teaching-learning:
1. Teacher-centered approach
More traditional in nature
Focuses on the teacher as instructor
Direct instruction, deductive teaching or expository teaching
Typified by the lecture type presentation
Teacher controls what is to be taught and how students are presented with the information that
they are to learn
2. Child-centered approach
Student centered approaches ( discovery learning, inductive learning or inquiry learning )
Place a much stronger emphasis on the learner’s role in the learning process
Teachers still set the learning agenda but they have much less direct control over what and how
students learn
3. Inductive and Deductive approach
Inductive – specified (examples) to general (rules)
Many examples are put forward to students and then he draws out a conclusion on the basis of
these examples
Deductive – general to specific
Presents the principle or rule first then it is clarified by giving examples
4. Herbartian Approach
John Friedrich Herbart
Based on appreciative mass theory of learning ( proposition of this theory is that the learner is
like a clean slate and all the knowledge is given from outside. If new knowledge is imparted by
linking with old knowledge of the student, it may be acquired easily and retained for a longer
period.)
The teaching content should be presented into units and units should arrange in a logical
sequence.
The emphasis is given on content presentation
5 steps for this approach
a. Preparation
b. Presentation
c. Comparison and abstraction
d. Generalization
e. Application
5. Evaluation Approach or Bloom’s Approach
B.S. Bloom
Main emphasis was that testing should be based on teaching and both these activities should be
objectives centers
Today teaching is organized by using the evaluation approach
Yearly plan and unit plan is prepared
3 main steps
a. Formulating Educational Objectives
b. Creating Learning Experiences
c. Evaluating the Change behavior
6. RCEM Approach
Regional College of Education Mysore
The teaching learning situations, strategies, and aid material is properly stated
3 steps
Input
Process
Output
METHOD
Main focus is on effective presentation of subject matter to have mastery over it.
Step-by-step scientific way of presenting the subject matter
Overall plan for systematic presentation on a selected approach means method is the practical
realization of an approach through a procedure in a system
Refers to the procedure within an approach
Formal structure of the sequence of acts
Covers both strategy and techniques of teaching
Different strategies may be adopted in following a method
Related to the nature of content of a subject to be taught
Two main types of teaching method
a. Non-participatory method
- teacher role of being a master of the subject matter; expert or an authority
- learners presumed to be passive and copious recipients of knowledge from the teacher
- examples: lecture method and demonstration method
b. Participatory method
- teacher and students are in constant interaction, active involvement, and continuous exchange
of views and ideas in the overall teaching and learning
- interactive teaching method or learner centered teaching method
- shifts from a belief that learners are empty plate who are supposed to be imparted with
knowledge to a belief that learners can construct knowledge and learn on their own if properly
guided
- designed for smaller group of participants
- encourage better retention of learned
-contemporary modern methods of education
- discussion method, question-answer method, project method, problem solving method
STRATEGY
- in Encyclopedia, strategy is the science or art of planning or directing large military movements
and operations. It refers to the pattern of acts that serve to attain certain outcomes.
- if we use strategy in the teaching learning situations, then it is known as instructional strategies.
It means the determination of some policy before presenting the content with the help of which
teaching objectives are achieved.
- According to E. Stones and S. Morris teaching strategy is a generalized plan for a lesson which
includes structure, desired learner behavior in terms of goals of instruction and an outline of
planned tactics necessary to implement the strategy.
For Example:
1. Blackboard is a strategy to provide visual structure during a lecture or discussion.
2. Free writing is a strategy for encouraging students to explore ideas in writing.
3. Debate is a teaching strategy in which students organize planned presentation for various view
points.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN APPROACH, METHOD AND STRATEGIES:-
All these have the same objectives i.e. bringing desirable changes in the behavior of learner.
However they differ in certain aspects.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN APPROACH AND METHOD
APPROACH METHOD
MEANING It is the view of looking It is the style of presentation
things. The procedure of or we can say practical
realization of an approach
teaching is called an approach
through a procedure in a
or the way we teach
system
Narrower term as compared
SCOPE Broader term than method
to approach.
LOGIC No scientific logic Has scientific logic
To realize the goals of To make effective
education presentation of subject and
content in classroom
PURPOSE
To have the memorization of
facts and concepts
To achieve educational
objectives and national
objectives
Teacher-centered approach Play way Method
Child-centered approach Lecture Method
EXAMPLES
Evaluation Approach Project Method
Management Approach Storytelling Method