Ms. Neelofer Mehdi

Advance Diploma in Human Development (Early Child Development)

Teaching Methodologies in

Early Years Classrooms

Objectives

• To explore modern teaching methods used in early years classrooms

• To recognize the impacts of teaching methods on child’s holistic development

• To promote modern teaching and learning practices in challenging environment

your challenges……

Write

Activity

Lets Reflect

Now think!!!

• What do you expect from your teaching?

• As a student who was your favorite teacher and why?

• Why we are interested in this

topic?

Traditional Approach

Out come of

Traditional

Teaching

I am Teaching are you Learning?????

I

How come the more I talk the less my students learn?

How traditional teaching is different from modern teaching methods?

Advantages of Lecturing

• Spark interest

• Provide unavailable information

• Convey large amounts of information

• Reach large audiences

• Model ways of thinking

• Maintain control

• Protect students

• Help auditory learners

Source: Sutherland and Bonwell

Disadvantages of Lecturing

• Passive students

• Inadequate feedback

• Flagging attention

• Poor retention

• Burden on lecturer

• Non-auditory learners

Source: Sutherland and Bonwell

Students Tune Out

Source: Pollio

Lectures Assume Homogeneity

Fundamentals of Active learning

1. Learning is an active process.

2. Different people learn in different ways.

3. We often don’t know what we think until we try to say it or write it.

4. Just because you’ve said it doesn’t mean they’ve learned it.

Tell me and I forget,

Show me and I remember,

Involve me and I understand.

Make lesson alive in Classroom

Remember:

A learner learns in response to needs. Need relate to the situation in which they live therefore, Education should be life related.

Therefore: The relationship between [students'] active involvement and effective learning is very strong

Obama bends over so the son of WhiteHouse staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own.

Howard Gardner’s Multiple

Intelligences

• Linguistic intelligence

• Logical/Mathematical intelligence

• Visual/Spatial intelligence

• Musical intelligence

• Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence

• Interpersonal intelligence

• Intrapersonal intelligence

• Naturalist intelligence

Write

• How can you over come those challenges?

Lets explore some modern teaching methods that ensure child’s active involvement

Lectures - Guest Speaker

Discussions (Two way interaction

through questioning skills)

Small Group discussions

Large group presentations by students

Slide shows

Library research

Posters

Video / Movies

Brain Storming

Teaching Methodologies cont..

Survey

Role Playing/Drama

Drawing/put ideas into pictures

Puppet show

Narration (Story)

Pictorial presentation of Story

Cartoon (pictorial)

Teaching Methodologies cont..

Imagination

Flash cards

Singing/poems

Poetry writing

Newspapers/magazines/reading material

Story writing

Book reviews

Model Making

Teaching Methodologies cont..

Flow Charts

Map Making

Puzzles

Art work

Play

Time Lines

Sequencing the stories

Picture stories

Clues Forming a Story

Teaching Methodologies

Storying

• Read and act out the stories:

1. Moral stories, Prophet’s Stories, Fairy tales,Fables.

• When can we use story?

• Why tell stories?

• What can children learn from story?

Asking Questions

• Why do we ask questions?

• examples of questions for the story

– Observation questions

– Interpretation questions

– Application questions

• When can you ask these questions?

Understanding the Story

• How would you introduce the story?

• What questions do we ask after a starter or story? – Provoke thinking

– Observation questions: What did you See?

– Interpretation questions: What is Happening? Why?

– Application questions: Does this happen in Our place? What should we Do about it?

Involving the Children

• How can you involve the children in the story?

– They can name the characters or change the animals.

– They can act out the story.

– Ask them questions during the story, such as, “What should he have done instead?”

– Have them give another ending to the story.

– Ask them to relate the story to their own lives.

• Balloon Activity

Impact of modern teaching methods on Child’s Holistic Development

• Physical Development

• Linguistic Development

• Social –Emotional Development

• Cognitive Development

Group work is a very effective teaching method •Jigsaw

•Cooperative learning helps learner’s to acquire social skills.

•Think-pair-share

Particularly dealing with differences

Safe Time and Resources

Develop Teamwork

Develops Communication skills

Improve decision making and problem

solving skills

Key Learning from Group Activities

• Use teaching method which involves more senses

• Focused on holistic development of learners

• Provide more opportunities to work in pair and groups

Things to remember!!!!

• Go beyond the curriculum

• Integrate the concept with student’s daily life.

• Involve maximum opportunities student to participate in teaching and learning process.

Can you

• promote modern teaching methods in your own settings?

• How?

No single teaching method or

approach will be successful

with all children.

Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998;

IRA & NAEYC position statement, 1998

Good teaching should be the centre piece of efforts to improve developmental outcomes for

children.