- Suggest a minimum of 3 instructional methods which might motivate the learners to learn. Use references to support your statement.
a) Interactive Method of Teaching.
Omatseys(2007), described interactive method of teaching as teaching style where the teacher communicates the information or initiate a discussion and then, the information or idea is shared amongst students through discussion. Interactive instruction provides students with the opportunity to connect with the curriculum and an opportunity for open discussion. Interactive method of teaching stimulates students’ imagination ability, help students with conceptual thinking, allow students to give logic reasons during discussion, improve students social skills and increase students participation in class.
b) Role Play
Role play; is a method of teaching where students briefly act out a problem or situation to identify with the characters involved in lesson, topic, or a material. This method is commonly used in Language Arts class and Social Studies. Role play can also be used with students from Pre-K-12 and even at higher educational institutions. Clapper (2007), states that, ”one way to stimulate student to be engulfed in the teaching and learning process is the use of role play”.
Students construct their own learning. Role play enhances critical thinking skills, students are actively involve in the lesson giving them an opportunity to interact with peers which intend improve on their social skills. Role play provides students with appropriate developmental skills that would be needed in future through incorporating realistic or real world problems.
c) Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Computer assisted instruction is a teaching method where computer is used as a medium to present instruction or teaching or where learning is computer based. According to Cain and Pitre (2008), CAI improves on students cognitive growth through the use of interactive media. They continued to say that, CAI increases students’ cognitive domain as well as higher order thinking skills. Research also shows that, when students use computers for word processing, searching information on the internet, and analyze quantitative information, it results is significant gains in writing thinking skills.
d) Peer Tutoring
This is an instructional strategy where by students are paired to learn or perform an academic task. Students can be paired based on same ability or difference in ability, same age or different ages and gender. Smith (2007) sees some benefits of peer tutoring as; nurturing students social interaction, building their social skills, allowing for flexibility and also for the teacher, focusing on curricular areas.
Peer tutoring brings into light the leadership qualities in students.
Reference
Cain, D. L., & Pitre, P. E. (2008). The Effect of Computer Mediated Conferencing and Computer Assisted Instruction on Student Learning Outcomes. Journal Of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 12(3-4), 31-52.
Clapper, T. C. (2010). Role Play and Simulation. Education Digest, 75(8), 39-43.
Omatseye, Bridget O. J.(2007). The Discussion Teaching Method: An Interactive
Strategy In Tertiary Learning.
Smith, B. (2007). Inspiring Students with Peer Tutoring. Learning & Leading With
Technology, 34(4), 18-19,.
- From your personal experience, share an undesirable incident which the good methods (tools) had been applied to the inappropriate situations (No references are required).
I used flexible grouping to assign a project to my students to “create a timeline demonstrating different historical eras in U.S History”. The mistake I made was to ask students to form their own groups. The product of the projects clearly revealed the difference in abilities in the class.
- What would you propose to do to redirect the specific situation you mentioned above to make learning easier, quicker, and more enjoyable? Please provide references to support your statement.
The situation would be redirected by making use of heterogeneous grouping. Hartman, Sikes and Strahan (2002) confirms that, “heterogeneous grouping in the classroom provide students with low-abilities greater learning opportunities without being detrimental to higher performing students”.
Reference
Hartman, K. Sikes, S. & Strahan, D. (2002). North Carolina Middle School Association Research Bulletin, Heterogeneous Grouping
Adelina-Interactive method of teaching is a great tool. When you can get the students involved in their learning, they seem to grasp the information better because they are participating. I have not used Role play, but that seems to be an interesting tool to use, because they will have to use some knowledge to be able to role play. I agree and disagree with the computer helping with writing skills. I teach a technology class and sometimes it seems like the computer makes the students lazy, because they think they should be able to find all the answers on the computer, so they just copy and paste.
ReplyDeleteI have learned over they years to never let students pick their groups, it has been disasterous for me. So I use different methods to choose groups. Sometime I have them count off (1,2,3,4, etc) and then I group the one, two and so on.
Natalie, I agree with you that the computer has made our net generation lazy. They want the computer to do everything for them, that is why we have to teach them “Copyright” (lol!!!) so they don’t just copy and paste. I think researchers were looking at the proper use of computers by students for information or sources that will help them with their writing and thinking skills.
DeleteI agree with the computer comments. I have found that my students will sometimes wait for the answer instead of thinking for themselves.
DeleteI use role play a lot in my face-to-face classes. However, in the virtual work I have found that peer tutoring works best. A group on the same campus that can meet and discuss to help each other out, tend to get more done and seem to grasp the concepts better.
Expanding on what Adelina said about copy/paste and copyright, I have this problem too. I try to teach my students how to use the internet for research, but in 7th grade a lot of students have trouble grasping the idea that copying someones work is wrong. The excuse given relates to group work. When they work in groups, they work together and usually turn in one assignment that a person has written. When they do individual work, they their excuse is either the other person is "helping" them or they say if they're going to have the same answers anyway, why not just copy. When we go to the lab, some students feel that why should they have to do the work when someone else already has.
DeleteInteractivity is a big key for success. Socratic questioning is based off of the idea of students asking questions and interacting with the teacher and each other rather than just memorizing what the teacher tells them.
Great input and citation!
ReplyDeleteFor Question 2, is it possible to apply technology to group the students?
Yes, I think technology can be applied in creating student groups with the help of Google Apps and some websites such as Blackboard 9. I am not very sure, if this kind of grouping will be good for students K-12.
DeleteGood point Adelina. I put all of my students in groups using our virtual course in Moodle. The only problem with group work is that sometimes one person carries the group. I think you are right in that maturity level of K-12 plays a big part.
DeleteLast semester, I wanted t my students to work together to create a script for a news broadcast that we would film. Traditionally, one person would do the typing and everyone else would tell them what to write. This time I set each group up with a link to their group Google Document. This way everyone can work real time, together. It blew their minds. They spent the first few minutes typing funny things to each other. It was great. It made monitoring easy for me because I had a tab open in my browser to each of the five documents and could monitor them working. Also, I didn't have to worry about them losing their documents.
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