-
How would you currently describe your overall approach to teaching in your classroom: traditional, process mastery, or constructivist? What works well in your approach? What needs improvement?
-
My overall approach is more traditional, process mastery. Students needs to read, comprehend, and retain information or stories read. One adjustment I made this past year is allowing students to be more creative by incorporating more projects in the testing process. There are still rules and guidelines but it allows students to have some freedom with their creativity.
-
I believe traditional, process mastery. It is the way I was taught and I believe it’s and excellent method. Of course it is important to leave room for creativity and critical thinking, buy I think everything has it’s place. We as adults have traveled different paths already, the children are still learning to navigate the seas of life and I believe the best approach is for the teachers to guide the student to what they know is best.
-
My current approach is mostly traditional or process mastery. There are certain things I want students to able to understand about the Bible or about theology or certain skills that I want them to be able to develop such as hermeneutics. However, there are times that I set aside where I let students ask questions about what they don’t know. I try to touch on those things in my lesson, or if I need to do more research I do more research and do a lesson that covers that topic. For example I had a student give me a list of “Bible contradictions” that he was stuck on and the next day I set aside what we were doing and spent that course period on addressing those so called Bible contradictions to help the students see that they don’t need to be afraid, the Bible holds up to such scrutiny.
-
My overall approach to teaching in the classroom is primarily traditional mixed with process mastery. There aren’t opportunities for students to determine their agenda for what they want to do in my course that day. They may have other options through electives that they choose but not in social sciences. I do suffer tremendously from the constructivist expectations of my parents. The example Dr. Black cited of the parent wanting to buy new uniforms for all the cheerleaders so his daughter didn’t have to try out is entirely believable.
-
I would say I have a mixed approach in my classroom. I am in the fine arts world so I tend to use constructivist thinking sometimes as a way for the kids to be more creative and come up with their own ideas in my lessons. However, they know there are certain standards to be met. In ballet course for example, there is only one way to technically do the ballet step. I teach that, but then let them come up with their own dance around that technique that is taught.
