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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?
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I’m kind of a mixture of all three. However, I tend to lean toward more process mastery and traditional. I think it would be helpful if I improved in the are of “hands on learning.” I know students learn differently, so providing increased flexibility in everyday learning and in projects may be helpful to them.
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I will say that this depends on the course.
I am generally a traditionalist. In my AP courses which are smaller, I apply more process mastery.
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I think my teaching style is a mixture of all three. I use traditional methods like reading for comprehension and memorization of vocabulary words. I want to incorporate more process/mastery method by allowing students to show their knowledge of the material without going through the lesson. I like using constructivist methods of hands-on learning by taking students outside for observation or collection lessons.
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As the school counselor I do not have a classroom, but I would say I would use a mixture of the traditional and process mastery. I believe that we all thrive on consistency and boundaries. I believe that students do well if they know what to expect.
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I would say that I am a combination of all but mostly the traditional/process mastery. While I love for the students to be active learners on their own, I also know that they are not aware of what I know, just like I am not aware of what the Lord knows about my life. I feel it is necessary to prepare students through all aspects of learning so that when something that is not a “favorite thing” happens in their lives, they can break it down and handle it instead of running away from it. Life is not all about what I want to do. When subjects are learned that are not a favorite, it grows the whole student and allows them to experience new things and broaden their horizons. Within that framework, you can add into it the individual way of learning about a subject that allows the student to learn something not as interesting to them within a framework that is of interest to them.
