Teaching Strategies

Synetics

• A problem-solving technique which seeks to promote creative thinking.

• The important element is the use of analogies. It is arrived through metaphors.

3 Types of Analogies:

1. Personal Analogy – a kind of comparison that shows how the student emphatize with the ideas or objects.

Ex. My life is like a book. I am a rose.

2. Direct Analogy – a kind of comparison made between 2 concepts or objects.

Ex. The house is like a carnival.

3. Symbolic Analogy / Compressed Conflict- a comparison consist of a 2-word description, object, or feeling which appear to be opposites.

Ex. Smile and frown, love and hatred, war and peace

Simulations

• Mimicking an actual real life condition, event or situations.

• It involves the application of cybernetic principles.

• Students learn from simulations first then the result of activities or discussion that follows.

Role Playing

• It consists of an enactment by the students of a learning situation through which they depict real life responses and behavior.

• It helps in seeking personal meaning out of events occuring everyday and the consequences of their responses.

Journal Writing

• Journal – a record, chronology or register of events, memories and daily happenings.

• It consist of a day-to-day record of learning activities: students can determine their own progress.

Narratives

• A spoken or written account of connected events or strory

• It is anchored on 2 popular arguments :

1. it facilitates easy consolidation of information needed to understand a concept, story or literary piece.

2. it is a powerful tool for instant recall

Community Resources

• It involves familiarization and close link with all educational aspects – the people and their expertise, the places with rich instructional materials and the natural landscape.

• Learning is facilitated through actual contact with human and material resources.

Problem Solving

• It employs the scientific method in searching for information.

• It is used generously in science and mathematical classes.

Peer Tutoring

• It is commonly employed when the teacher requests the older, brighter and more cooperative member pf the class to tutor other classmates.

• It is due to their closeness in age, skills, study habits and even learning styles.

Peer Tutoring Arrangement

a) Instructional peer tutoring – older students help younger ones on a one-to-one or one-to-a group basis.

b) Same age peer tutoring – more able ones to assists the less able.

c) Monitorial tutoring- the class may be divided into groups and monitors are assigned to lead each group.

Peer Tutoring Arrangement

d) Structural peer tutoring – a definite procedure id followed. It is administered by trained tutors.

e) Semi-structured peer tutoring- the tutor guide them through a carefully-planned learning guide but are free to modify it according to their own interest and skills.

Microteaching

• It consists of teaching a brief lesson to a small group of students in an actual classroom.

• Beginning teachers undertake this activity by teaching their peers.

• Its ultimate aim is to obtain feedback from students or peers in a form of critique and followed by a reflection.

Field Studies

• Is an out-of-the-classroom activity intended to present concepts in the most realistic manner.

• Sometimes referred as educational excursion, field trip, study tour, nature trek or exploratory travel.