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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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My approach is traditional and mastery. I will use a variety of modes to introduce, teach, and reinforce topics that will include hands on activities and media. The students may have different learning strengths and these options when available will support learning. Communication with the parents in my course will be very important. I want to hear and consider their concerns while continuing to support the entire course.
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I’ve worked in classrooms where I would use mainly a traditional or process mastery approach. I would also allow the students to use different ways of presenting a lesson we just completed. This works great for the more creative students, but I do see that for other students, just writing a paper is more of their strength. What might need improvement is for me to come up with more creative hands-on activities that seem to capture the majority of the students, but sometimes we have limited time or resources.
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I am only in my second year of teaching, so I am not sure I have a set approach, but last year during my first year of teaching I actually used a bit of each approach, depending on the lesson and student needs. Because I mostly had traditional teaching growing up, I tend to start there, but I use process mastery when I need to slow down or repeat lessons. Rarely, I will use an constructivist approach during whole group lessons, but instead use it in guided small group teaching. Half way through my first year of teaching, I started to see some places I could move on for most of my course and then circle back around with my small groups instead of waiting to move on with the whole course.
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As stated in the previous discussion post, I tend to use more traditional approaches to my teaching. However, I believe incorporating more constructivist approaches would be worthwhile. One time, I assigned a project with various formatting options and the students really appreciated that they could produce the project using their best skillset. This is something I would love to implement more.
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I think my approach to teaching is more traditional. I do like to build on learning and previous knowledge.
