Reflection No.7

Inductive Teaching strategy                                       
 -Concept or principle discovered by students.


Deductive teaching strategy
-Concept or principle presented by teacher.

Reflection No.6

Deductive Teaching Strategy


Definition: Strategy in which principle or generalizations are presented initially followed by application or testing of these principles. it is basically leading the students from unknown to known, abstract to concrete or complex to simple.

purpose: -

• Teacher centered approach where students are taken as blank slates.
• It creates dependency in students limiting their thinking ability.
• It is basically used to help students with learning disabilities to enhance their learning.

Four phases:

1. presentation of abstraction.
2. the teacher illustrates with example.
3. students give examples of concept and apply them in new situation.
4. student re-state the concept or definition that they have learned.

 Advantages:

• less time consuming.
• Different from rote learning as it is a strategy where logical inter-linking of the element is encouraged.
• Most of the school's materials/curriculum can be easily taught through deductive strategy.
• This method involves all levels of questions.

 Dis-advantages:

• Students are not actively involved in the beginning of the lesson
• Since it is a teacher-centered approach, it may not be challenging for the brighter students.

Role of the teacher:

• Since it is a teacher centered approach most of the work is done by teacher
• Provides guidance as scaffolding.
• Teacher needs to plan properly including all the teaching materials and lessons.  

Reflecction No.5

Concept of inductive teaching or learning strategy 

• It is an inquiry or discovery based learning whereby the knowledge is transferred from concrete to abstract, unknown to known and complex to simple.It is a modern way of teaching where the role of the teacher is less. it is of two types, guided and unguided. in guided, the topic is given to the students to guide them where as in unguided no topics are given,students have to do self discovery.

Purpose of Inductive Teaching Strategy

the purposes are:

• motivating students to compete and achieve goal.
• Enhance class participation.
• work as team to achieve common goal.
• Makes class more interesting.
• self discovery
• learning by doing.
• maximize students participation.

Procedural steps of inductive teaching strategy

Open ended phase
-for example if the topic taught is about Noun. the teacher gives examples and non examples of nouns.

Convergent phase
-teacher prompt students to find out examples and non examples by giving them the patterns.

Closure
-Teacher will let students to come up with the definition of nouns with the recapitalization by the students.

Application Phase
-teacher makes the students to make the sentence using nouns.


Role of the Teacher

• provide guidance (scaffolding).
• Modelling (demonstration).
• Coaching (instructions by teacher and the performance by students).
• Prompting and facilitating (encouragement, directing, giving hints, feedback and allowing students to use learning materials).
• Cooperates and foster cooperation among student themselves.
• Teacher minimizes the authority (students centered, no much role of the teacher).
• Teacher makes the democratic classroom environment.
• Designs activity (brain storming, experiments, buzz sessions and questioning).
• Giving opportunities to the students (independent thinking).
• teacher makes the students to present their views to the class.

Merits

• Can be used at all levels of the study at varying degrees.
• Incorporates all questioning techniques including prompting, probing and content reviews.
• Ensures greater interaction among learners, teachers and materials.
• Discorages wild guessing as it needs evidences.
• It motivates children to find and learn more.
• Students are activated to learn better.

Demerits

• Time consuming
• Minimum content coverage
• It needs verification. some of the verification have to be done in deductive strategy.
• It is frustrating for different students (slow learner wont be able to cope up with the fast learners).
• All topics cannot be taught independently.

Reflection No.4

 characteristics of effective teacher

characters of an effective teacher are:

• have command over his/her subject
• can be able to modulate and deal with any kind of students
• have always positive attitude towards his/her job and students
• is understanding and approachable
  
• aims for the mastery of excellence in students regarding his job

Reflection No.3

 Difference between teaching skills and teaching strategy.

Teaching Skills and strategies are related to each other.

• skills are daily routine habits which have been acquired through practice and repetition. Strategies, on the other hand, are goal-directed and deliberate.
• teaching skills means training of skills such as to acquire ability, experience and knowledge to be able to teach well where as teaching strategy means its a plan that is intended to achieve particular purpose of teaching.

Reflection No.2

Today i learnt the meaning of five different words.

1. strategy: plan of action to teach or its a teaching plan.

2. method: way of doing things.

3. Approach: How to do the things.

4.Skill: an ability to do an activity well.

5.Technique: Way of doing an activity which needs skill.

reflection no.1

from the session of date 7,mar,2012,i learnt the correct position to do meditation which requires straight body with open heart.and also i knew that through meditation, we can get control of our own mind and hence we can achieve gross national happiness.