Approaches to Instruction: Introduction

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Approaches to Instruction Introduction

• EDU 330 Educational Psychology
• Daniel Moos

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• Question Who said the following?
• You want your students to learn? Dont focus on
  WHAT your students are learningfocus on HOW are
  your students are learning.
• Answer Me

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Approaches to Instruction Introduction

• Behavioral Approach
• Academic knowledge and skills are the focus (not
  social skills)
• Teacher makes instructional decisions
• Maintaining positive climate through
  reinforcement
• Three components of direct instruction
  Orientation, Presentation, Structured/Guided/Indep
  endent Practice

• Cognitive/Constructivism Approach
• Rooted in Information Processing
• Communicate clear goals and objectives What you
  want to accomplish, why you want to accomplish,
  and how you are going to assess
• Role of organization and meaningfulness
• Support active learning
• Assumptions consistent with Constructivism (ZPD,
  discovery learning, social interaction,
  real-world)

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Approaches to Instruction Introduction

• Humanistic Approach
• Focus on noncognitive variables (i.e. students
  needs, emotions, values, and self-perceptions)
• Children make choices about their own development
• Teacher as facilitator (not a prescriber)

• Social Cognitive Approach
• Cooperative learning
• Group heterogeneity
• Group goal and individual accountability
• Interaction
• Interpersonal skills
• Team competition

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Approaches to Instruction Application to
Experiential Activity

• First Step Identify Learning Objective
• Shoot a basketball with proper form
• Second Step Identify how you are going to
  structure activity to ensure learning objective
  is met use at least one theory
• How would a Behaviorist approach be?
• How would a Humanistic approach be?
• How would a Social approach be?
• How would a Constructivist approach be?

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Co-teaching Introduction

• What is co-teaching?
• Co-teaching is typically defined as two
  educational professionals working together to
  meet the needs of heterogeneous learners

• What are some keys to effective co-teaching?
• Planning Who is going to lead which section?
  How will you support each other? The students?
  Plan, plan, plan!
• Disposition What are your beliefs on fairness,
  grading, behavior management, and philosophy of
  teaching?
• Evaluation Is this model more effective in
  meeting the needs of individual students?

• What are some barriers to effective co-teaching?
• Time
• Grading
• Teacher and Student readinessl