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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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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.
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My classroom is a mixture of traditional and process/mastery. I as the teacher am in control over my curriuculum and what information is disseminated to students. I do leave a lot of room in my course for discussion, critical thinking, and debate. This helps me see the holes in student mastery, but also helps students develop their own reasoning skills, apart from what I am teaching them.
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It is a mixture of traditional and process mastery. With math, a traditional view does a good job of relaying the steps and processes we take to solve problems. But process mastery is a good element because through asking questions of students I can see gaps in their learning.
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My overall approach to education is tradition. Since I teach high school math courses, the lessons are structured to teach mastery. I do encourage active participation in my courses and engage the students.