Learning and Teaching Strategy
Direction Instruction
Teaching as Decision Making
• When planning a lesson, teacher must
identify:
• Content and processes to be addressed
• The strengths, needs and interests of
students
• Most effective instructional approaches
Effective Teaching
• “Effective teaching is not a set of generic
practices, but instead is a set of contextdriven decisions about teaching.”
• “Effective teachers do not use the same set of
practices for every lesson … Instead what
effective teachers do is constantly reflect
aboutt heir work, observe whether students
are learning or not, then adjust their practices
accordingly.”
Conceptual Base
• Instructional Strategies
Direct
Interactive
Experiential
• Instructional
Methods
•Lecture
•Case Studies
•Debate
•Cooperative Learning
•Enquiry
•Group Discussion
•Role Play
Instructional Strategy
• Strategies determine the approaches a
teacher may take to achieve learning
objectives
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Direct
Interactive
Experiential
Independent
Instructional Methods I
• Direction Instructions
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Lectures
Explanation and Demonstrations
Guest Speakers
Guided Readings
Didactic Questions
Structured Overview
Strengths
• Conveys large amounts of information
• Provides detailed information on
concepts
• Involves step-by-step instruction for skill
acquisition
• Teacher decides what will be taught:
highly teacher directed
• Easier to plan and use
Fitness for purpose
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Time
Physical Environment
Class size
Cost
Content knowledge
Learning materials
Teaching style / teacher background
Learning style / student background
Key to success
• If the presenter is:
• Knowledgeable, perceptive, engaging and
motivation
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Stimulate reflection
Challenge the imagination
Enhance curiosity
Develop a sense of inquiry
Limitations
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Emphasizes Listening
Student: passive
Requires an attentive audience
Get little feedback from students
Difficult to develop higher-order thinking
Appropriateness
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Fundamental Theory / Rules
Historical Events (Timeline)
Biographies of Religious Figures
Large amount of information
(Table form)
• Declaration
• Law and Ordinance
Suggested topic
• Theory of Conduct
• Lecture: The definition of the ActUtilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism
• Development of Buddhism in India
• Guest speaker
• History between the Two Testaments
• Lecture + Reading materials
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