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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 believe I do traditional and process mastery. It really depends on which group of students I am working with.
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I would say it is a combination of traditional and process mastery. I think this process works well. Our school’s curriculum is a little more advanced than public school and our students for the most part appreciate the extra challenge and push.
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My overall teaching style is a combination of traditional and process mastery. It generally works well, but sometimes I need to enforce more rules from the traditional process.
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Constructivist. It gets the kids involved. Kids that don’t want to get involved don’t do work.
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When I teach my art lessons, I teach a specific skill or idea, then assign the project. This is process mastery. As the students progress, they are permitted more and more freedoms in their assignments. Instead of walking them all through the same landscape drawing, more advanced students are choosing their landscapes, but must still include the essential elements of a landscape. In that way I am partly constructivist. Students tend to learn best the things they most want to learn, so the goal is always to kindly that desire. It’s not always possible, so we must require certain lessons.
