Fifth Reflection Paper

Continuation of the presentation to the home group from 14th march on 15th march.

Purpose Of Teaching or Learning Strategy

• It is to motivate students to compete, cooperate and achieve goals.
• Students will be grouped together to learn.
•  It enhances class participation.
•  Students should work as a team to achieve a common goal.
•  It makes the class entertaining and interesting.
• They have to discover course context for themselves.
•  Students learn by doing.
•  It allows the students to think (independent life long learner).
• Student centered- learning.

Phases In Inductive Teaching or Learning Strategy

• Phase I - Open ended phase, its shows the students the examples and the non- examples. In this phase they need to provide lots of examples time and again.
• Phase II – Convergent phase, here the teacher have to prompt the students to identify patterns in the example provided.
•  Phase III – Closure phase, here the teacher has to give the correct definition of the topic taught.
• Phase IV – The application phase, have to apply the definition of the topic and relate it to the real life situation.

Role of teachers

Inductive teaching(constructist class)

- Role of the teacher is to allow the learners to discover and experience on their own.

• Provide guide(scaffolding). Scaffolding means breaking complex questions in simple questions and asking it back to the students, so that they can discover/ dig out the answer for themselves.
• Coaching, the teacher instructs the students and the students have to perform according to the instruction.
• Prompting and facilitating, the teacher encourages the students and directs them by giving hints and providing feedbacks. thus, allowing students to use learning materials.
• Teacher minimizes authority, this study in based on student centered learning.

Advantages of Inductive teaching or learning strategy

• Involves observation inference classification in comparison. Its means finding out something from what you already know.
•  Can be used in all levels of study at varying degree.
•  Incorporating all the questioning including prompting, probing and content review. This will encourage students to ask more questions.
• Discourages wild guessing as it needs evidence.
• It motivates children to find and learn more.

Disadvantages of Inductive teaching or learning strategy

• Time consuming.
• Minimizes the content coverage.
•  It needs verification, it should have valid answer.
•  Frustrating for different students. Slow learners won’t be able to cope up with fast learners.
•  All topics cannot be taught inductively.