APPROACH

APPROACH

An approach is a way of looking at teaching and learning. An approach gives rise to methods, the way of teaching something, which use classroom activities or techniques to help learners learn.

Behavior Modification

Student-Centered Approach to Learning

This approach centers around four types of punishment/reinforcement:

While teachers are still an authority figure in a student-centered teaching model, teachers and students play an equally active role in the learning process.

1. Positive reinforcement: Giving extra credit for a question answered with much thought

2. Positive punishment: A meeting with the principal

3. Negative reinforcement: Removal from list of students who have to answer questions

4. Negative punishment: Decrease in free time

Inquiry-based learning

·facilitator

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personal model

·delegator

Cooperative learning

·facilitator

· delegator

How to have approach in a classroom

1. Write down your strengths and weaknesses

2. Match your teaching approach to the ages of the students you teach.

3. Keep an open mind.

4. Add additional ways of engaging your students that suit your personality and style.

5. Consistently, evaluate the effectiveness of your teaching approach

6. Don’t give up!