fifth reflection

Purpose of inductive teaching/learning strategy.

The main purpose of inductive teaching is to motivate students to compete with each other, enhance students participation, and discovery learning to enhance the classroom learning environment.

Four phases.
1)     Open-ended phase-give examples/non examples of a concept/generalization. Then the student observes and describes. Give more examples and then student will compare the examples and non examples and will try to find similarities and differences.
2)     Convergent phase.-prompt students to identify patterens in the examples.
3)     Closure phase-give definition by explicitly stating the patterns in the examples.
4)      Application phase-application of definition with additional examples.

Role of teacher.
1)    Facilitator

2)    Make democratic classroom environment.

3)    design activities for the students.

4)    provide guidance

5)    make students to raise their views. 

Overall, teachers role is to act as a facilitator.

 

 merits and demerits.
Merits

- Involve all question technique, classification and comparison, and motivate the student to ensure active interaction classroom.

- interaction between learners, teachers and materials.

De merits

-Time consuming

- fluctuation for the students

- problem in content coverage

- topics cannot be taught inductively