Being at this point in the semester, I am convinced that education and specifically instruction are like cultivating a garden. It takes a lot of work to get a learner ready to learn. As an instructor, my role is to determine when instruction is needed and when it is to prepare and deliver material in the way where that seed of knowledge will have the greatest chance to take root and grow in the mind of the individual student. The lessons, discussions, readings, and presentation have reinforced this belief.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Instructional Strategies
Tonight our group did our media presentation on 10 Instructional Strategies: presentation, demonstration, drill-and-practice, tutorial, games, discussion, cooperative learning, simulation, discovery, and problem solving. I hope the class got something out of the presentation. It wells good to have it done, but also it feels good because I learned from the preparation for the presentation.
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I think the process of cultivating a mind for learning, much like a garden for planting, is something that would be missed if a SME was given a classroom. They know, and often love their topic so they are more than ready to dig in. When the motivation and steps to act on prior knowledge aren't developed, the main instruction can fall flat. Remember the comments Brenda made in class about a fellow teacher not wanting to use a drama about manners. Draw those leaners in!
ReplyDeleteGood point. Hopefully we each of the sincere desire to help students learn; that desire to help students learn should help us humbly step back and let students use prior knowledge to develop into the knowledge we are trying to share with them.
ReplyDeleteThe crazy and maybe fun part about all these strategies is trial and error. If one of them doesn't work, try another one. I feel bad for the students I tried to teach without knowing what I was doing. I wonder if they got anything out of my instruction?
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