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Criteria For Selection of Teaching Method and Strategy Includes

The document discusses criteria for selecting teaching methods and strategies. It provides details on several key factors to consider: objectives, learner appropriateness, resources, and constraints. Objectives must be determined to ensure the teaching method facilitates achieving the intended outcomes. The appropriateness for learners, available resources, and any constraints like time, staffing, or policies must also be considered. Teaching methods refer to the style of content presentation while strategies are generalized plans that include goals, tactics, and evaluation.

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Criteria For Selection of Teaching Method and Strategy Includes

The document discusses criteria for selecting teaching methods and strategies. It provides details on several key factors to consider: objectives, learner appropriateness, resources, and constraints. Objectives must be determined to ensure the teaching method facilitates achieving the intended outcomes. The appropriateness for learners, available resources, and any constraints like time, staffing, or policies must also be considered. Teaching methods refer to the style of content presentation while strategies are generalized plans that include goals, tactics, and evaluation.

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Criteria for Selection of a Method/Strategy

Zais suggested “aims, goals and objectives, foundations, commitment, content and stu-
dents experience as appropriate criteria
• Brady (1992) explains that variety, scope, validity, appropriateness and relevance as
means to judge learning activities”.

Criteria for selection of teaching method and strategy includes:


• objectives
• Learner appropriateness
• Recourses
• constraints

Objectives
• Objectives are intended outcomes or what do we want to achieve.
• Teacher must select teaching strategy/method which is appropriate to facilitate the
curriculum objectives.
• So it is important for the curriculum developer to determine exactly what the stated
objectives seek to achieve when deciding the most suitable learning activities for inclu-
sion in the curriculum.

Selection of teaching method


• An experienced teacher, will probably be able to choose an appropriate method (or
mix of methods) for achieving a particular objective (or group of objectives)

Learner appropriateness
• It is important to consider teaching method /strategy according to student appropri-
ateness.
• It is also possible to relate teaching strategies to the developmental psychology.
• For example according to Jean Piaget expository and inquiry strategies may be more
appropriate to the formal operation level.In earlier stages drill and repetition may be
more appropriate.

Resources
• At this level the teacher should apply the criteria of resources availability.
• Some methods require hardware and software resources but do these resources are
available with in the institutions and are they available at the required time.
Constraints
• In all teaching learning situations there is a number of constraints that operate to fur-
ther reduce the choice of the most appropriate method/strategy.
• For example one may have decided that an excursion or field trip is the best way to
put across your objectives, however an excursion may take half a day, while an audio-vis-
ual presentation may have the same impact in just twenty minutes
• Other constraints to be consider When selecting learning activities in a school setting
include:
• Financial availability
• Availability of staff ( for field work team teaching)
• School policy
• Central organization policy

Concept of Methods, Strategies, Tactics and Techniques

• Teaching Method is a style of presentation of content in the class room.


• Method is a way something is done.
• It is used for routine tasks.
•The method emphasizes the autonomy of the learner; the teacher's role is to monitor
the students' efforts, and the students are encouraged to have an active role in teaching
learning process.
• Teaching methods may include class participation, demonstration, recitation, memori-
zation, or combinations of these.

classification of Methods
All the methods can be classified under the three heads.
• Telling Method( lecture, Questioning, discussion)
• Showing Method(Demonstration, Excursion)
• Doing Method(Project, Role plying, Practical method)

Classification of Teaching Method

Direct Approach
• Makes use of expository strategies • Aimed at mastery of knowledge and skills • Teach-
er-oriented • Direct transmission of information from teacher• Highly structured • Learn-
er is passive, receives ready
Indirect Approach
• Makes use of explanatory strategies • Aimed at generating knowledge from experience
• Learner-centered • Students search information with teacher supervision• Flexibly or-
ganized Experience oriented • Learner is active in search of information

Teaching Strategy
• E.stone and S.Morris have defined The term Teaching strategy in the following man-
ners:
“Teaching strategy is a generalized plan for a lesson which includes, desired learner be-
havior in terms of goals of instruction and outline of planned tactics necessary for imple-
ment scheme of the curriculum.”
• In teaching learning process this term is meant those procedures and methods by
which objectives of teaching are realized in the class.
• Teaching strategies are the methods we use to allow learners to access the information
we are teaching.

• People learn in 3 main ways –


• Visually
• auditory
• kinesthetically
• Strategy usually requires some sort of planning.
• A plan of action designed to achieve an overall aim

Strategies can be summarized as


• Teaching is the generalized plan of the whole lesson plan.
• It consists of structure of teaching, objectives of teaching and techniques of evaluation
of teaching.
• Strategy is more comprehensive than method.
• It is directional in nature.
• It refers to goal directed activities of the teachers.
• It is more close to science than arts.
• So, strategy is a cooperative learning technique in which students work in a small
groups.
Difference between Teaching method and Strategy
Teaching method
• Teaching method is task centered
• Content and mode of presentation are the main element of teaching method
• The term teaching method is the term of pedagogy of education.
• The method assumes that teaching is an art
The term method uses macroapproach to teaching
• The term method implemented by techniques of teaching
• The teaching method aims at the effective presentation of subject matter

Teaching Strategy
• Teaching strategy is relationship centered
• Behavioral objectives and learning conditions are two basic elements of teaching strat-
egy• The term strategy has been borrowed from military science.
• The assumption regarding teaching strategy is that teaching is a science.
• Teaching strategy employs micro-approach to teaching
• The strategy are implemented by tactics of teaching
• The main focus of teaching strategy is to achieve the objectives by creating appropri-
ate learning conditions

Concept of Teaching Tactics


• Teaching tactics are the ways of implementing a teaching strategy
• Different types of tactics are used in the same teaching strategy.
• A tactics of teaching is a unit of teacher behavior which is helpful for achieving instruc-
tional objectives.

Teaching Techniques
• A teaching method reveals that how a content is presented in classroom while
teaching techniques indicate with what activities of teaching.
• Techniques are psychological as well as logical in nature
• Difference between techniques and methods is that a technique is a part of activities
of teaching whereas method is whole style of presentation.
Selection of Method and Technique
Introduction
• Teaching involves communication, that is, the exchange of information and under-
standing.
• Strategy involves overall
• way in which the process
• of instruction is organized and
• executed.
Method is a instructional process itself, which has a more or less defined set of proce-
dures and tends to promote a particular strategy.
• Technique is a detailed activity within an instructional process.

Selection of Teaching Methods


There is no simple and instant way of selecting a teaching method, we must consider
several factors

Objectives of Learning
The specification of learning objectives is important in selecting an appropriate teaching
method.
• Several models are available but the taxonomy developed by Bloom et al. (1956) is per-
haps the best known.
• At universities we are mainly concerned with knowledge or the cognitive domain, but
of more importance is the hierarchy of levels of knowledge in this domain.

The educational objectives are divided in to three domains


• Cognitive Domain • Affective Domain • Psychomotor Domain

Group Size
class size plays an important part in selecting a method because some are unsuitable
when the group is excessively large or small

Local constraints
• Teacher must consider any local constraints when selecting a method. The two most
important factors are the time and facilities available, including resource materials and
textbooks.
Autonomy of Students
• The degree of student autonomy is increasingly featuring in the selection of methods
• This tends to be the case in more developed countries, where students often are more
independent and have a wider choice in how they study university courses.

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