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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 try to incorporate both process mastery and constructivism. I try to incorporate flexible projects that allow the students to to create a unique product that shows mastery in their own way. This is coupled with more traditional teaching as well as hand on tasks and choice boards that fall into a more constructivist approach. I think it is good to have a combination.
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I currently use process mastery when teaching in my classroom. I believe that this helps students have strong building blocks to keep learning throughout the year. I will be incorporating more traditional values/Biblical integration into my lessons.
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As a Health and PE teacher, there are times when my approach must be more process mastery because of PE standards that need to be achieved such as a timed mile or a push-up and sit-up test. However, there is room for the students to choose what position they would like to play in kickball or basketball, so in this way there can be more of a constructivist approach. I offer flexibility within structure where appropriate.
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As a math teacher I would say I am mainly traditional/process mastery. It is hard to change that for math, but I do change presentation methods for different learners at times.
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I would describe my approach as a Spanish teacher to be mainly process mastery. Students have specific topics to cover that we approach in a variety of ways. I also have flexibility to create new units or emphasize certain topics that are of interest to my current students.
