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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 honestly think that my overall approach to teaching in my classroom is a mixture of the different approaches. My students are held to certain requirements, but they have a chance to select how they would like to demonstrate mastery. I think by combining the benefits of each approach the students will have a better experience.
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I teach history and science. For history, I use mostly a traditional approach but for science I use a more constructivist approach. To be honest, my history lessons could use more variety. I plan to push myself to do more project with the students. My science lessons could use more structure, and I plan to incorporate more vocabulary review and activities.
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I am currently in line with a traditional and process mastery approach but I build in activities every day that allow students to make selections on what they would like to do. One of the areas that I need improvement on is allowing for more flexibility in my classroom. I tend to be overly structured at times.
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I would say that I am mostly traditional and process/mastery; however, I do incorporate a hands-on approach and choices usually once or twice a semester.
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I think my overall approach is mostly traditional but varies based on what we learning at the time. I am the one making most of the decisions about what will learn and where we are going, but I often incorporate a process/mastery approach as well when I feel students need that approach. On certain projects I do like to give the students as much choice as I can because I see how they get much more involved when they have ownership. The part of constructivism that I find helpful is the hands on approach to learning. I think we can find ways to use the appropriate approach, pulling out the best parts of each of them, and adapting as we find what works for our lessons.
