Reflection Paper Five.

                                                                                                               Sunday 18th March 2012

We continued today's class with the presentation by our friends after a small meditation. Now we are on the third strategy that is the procedural steps of inductive teaching/learning strategy.

There are four steps/phases:

1.      Phase 1: open- ended phase:

Here the students will be given lots of examples and non examples and moreover the teachers try to give as much examples as possible.

2.      Phase 2: convergent phase:

Here the teacher prompt students and let them identify the patterns of the examples that teachers have already given.

3.      Phase 3: closure phase:

The teacher will finally give the definition of the topic.

4.      Phase 4: application phase:

Here the teacher will give application of definition and re state it.

After the explanation of the four phases, we came across another strategy i.e. the role of teacher in inductive teaching:

·        Constructivist class.

·        Let the students do the research themselves.

·        Modelling students(coaching- instructions by teachers and performance by students).

·        Prompting, facilitating, directing, and giving hints and feedbacks to students.

Another friend explained about the advantages and dis- advantages of inductive teaching/learning strategy:

                      Advantages:

·        It ensures greater interaction among learners, teachers and the materials like introducing new stuffs.

·        It motivates children to find and learn more so that the students are active learners.

·        Incorporates all question techniques that helps them in more information.

·        Can be used in all levels of study at varying degree like some are fast learners and some are slow learners.

·        Dis – courage wild guessing as it needs evidence.

Dis- advantages:

·   Time consuming as most of the work is given to the students and to do that work they have to do lots of research.

·   Minimum content coverage because students consume more time while doing research.  

·    It needs verification as they prefer more valid answers.

·    Its frustrating for different learners as there is both fast and slow learners(it will be hard for the slow learners to compete with fast learners).

· Topics  cannot be taught inductively, there will be different topics so all the topics cannot be taught inductively.

We finally ended up the lesson after discussing the few questions that was written in the green board by the sir.

Thank You....