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.