Learning and Teaching Strategy

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Learning and Teaching Strategy

• Direction Instruction

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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

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Effective Teaching

• Effective teaching is not a set of generic
  practices, but instead is a set of context-driven
  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.

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Conceptual Base
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Instructional Strategy

• Strategies determine the approaches a teacher may
  take to achieve learning objectives
• Direct
• Interactive
• Experiential
• Independent

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Instructional Methods I

• Direction Instructions
• Lectures
• Explanation and Demonstrations
• Guest Speakers
• Guided Readings
• Didactic Questions
• Structured Overview

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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

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Fitness for purpose

• Time
• Physical Environment
• Class size
• Cost
• Content knowledge
• Learning materials
• Teaching style / teacher background
• Learning style / student background

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Key to success

• If the presenter is
• Knowledgeable, perceptive, engaging and
  motivation
• Then direction instruction can
• Stimulate reflection
• Challenge the imagination
• Enhance curiosity
• Develop a sense of inquiry

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Limitations

• Emphasizes Listening
• Student passive
• Requires an attentive audience
• Get little feedback from students
• Difficult to develop higher-order thinking

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Appropriateness

• Fundamental Theory / Rules
• Historical Events (Timeline)
• Biographies of Religious Figures
• Large amount of information
• (Table form)
• Declaration
• Law and Ordinance

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Suggested topic

• Theory of Conduct
• Lecture The definition of the Act-Utilitarianism
  and Rule-Utilitarianism
• Development of Buddhism in India
• Guest speaker
• History between the Two Testaments
• Lecture Reading materials

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