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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 would say that over the past 2 years I am moving away from a purely traditional approach to more of a hybrid of mastery/constructivist. I do give the students some choices and project based learning, but I get them to follow processes, like in learning to write essays. I think areas that I need to improve in are incorporating more traditional learning for things like vocabulary building and grammar in order for ESL students to build a strong foundation.
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Traditional. I am able to help the largest number of students when I use a traditional approach, but I know there are some students who benefit from other approaches. I need to tell more stories and I need to incorporate more Bible stories into my lessons.
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I teach art so my overall approach to teaching in my classroom varies. I like variety and the wonderful thing with art is there is so much hands-on done by the students, so I would have to say the majority of my teaching is constructivist. This approach does work well, but I know I need to improve by having more focus on the content that I am teaching. My middle school and high school students do not want to hear about the elements or principles of art, they just want to start on their project. I know I need to discipline myself to include the not so fun parts too.
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My teaching approach varies depending on the children in my course. I always start my year by making a very detailed plan of what we need to learn and how long I think it will take to teach. From there I gauge my approach based on what I think is best for that particular course. Sometimes this varies chapter by chapter too. Sometimes I am able to be more hands off and let them set the pace as they tend to move quickly in mastering a concept. Other times I need to slow them down to make sure they’re not just flying through it without really understanding. I tend to be very organized and I have the final say, but I let me students voices be heard too.
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I would describe my approach was traditional with some process mastery. I think it works well because my students seem to enjoy and learn music in my course. I do need to provide more process mastery for a few of my students.
