When educators step inside the classroom doors, they must find effective teaching strategies to assist the students. Although there are many different ways to teach a classroom, direct instruction and constructivist theories of learning are two of the most common methods. ... Direct instruction is a very straight forward and structured way of teaching. ... This method is also better for teaching student's declarative knowledge, rather than procedural knowledge because students learn facts without gaining experience. ... Instead, this method requires the teacher to take a step back a...

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As everybody knows, each student has her/his own specific way of efficient learning and it is necessary to find out that method for a better learning and a successful college life. Personally, my method of studying is a little bit different compared to others. ... One of teaching methods which make me bored and does not help students learn effectively is using the PowerPoint slides, Personally, I think it shows the teacher not paying much attention to students and just wants to pass the time, On the other hand if she/he explain all of the main parts of the topic one by one on the whiteboard or...

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The first teaching method for DAP states that the materials include: "blocks, books, writing materials, math related games, dramatic play props, equipment for physical movement, art and modeling materials, sand and water, and tools for science investigations.... Seeing this gives them the encouragement to understand that there teaching methods are working, based on program goals and children's abilities. 2. The 2nd DAP teaching method explained tells us that the teacher should be using a number of formats such as large and small groups, choice time (in interest areas) and routines ...

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Are computers' new teaching methods such as Hypermedia, and multimedia making the learning process too quick by avoiding what really matters in the proper teaching method? ... He also supports this statement when he says, " Teaching students to understand the orderly unfolding of a plot or logical argument is a crucial part of education" (274). ... Overall, Gelernter undoubtedly succeeded in his attempt to persuade readers about the myths of computers as a teaching method, and clearly supported and justified it with a list of his facts and opinions. ... His goal it to persuade ...

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Over the weekend, The High Point Men's lacrosse team took a trip to Jesse Wharton Elementary School in Greensboro, North Carolina to run a camp teaching young kids about lacrosse. ... I am grateful that I took the time out of my day to mentor and learn, to adapt and find out how kids learn and understand certain methods of teaching. ...

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Visual, verbal, and kinesthetic are different types of methods in which people learn. ... Based off my past experience, I have noticed that some of my teachers would limit their ways of teaching which made it hard to learn what was being taught. ... Educators should expand their ways of teaching in all ways so that all their students can fully take away the material they are teaching. ...

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Many of the levels have been transitioned to newer levels more based on the "doing" aspect of learning and teaching. ... The revised edition has been better tailored to the modern and evolved, standards of teaching that the old Bloom's Taxonomy no longer suited and whose methods had grown outdated. While many of the methods are older views they are still useful and effective. This is not to say all the old methods are adaptable to modern levels of performance in education. ...

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This essay will look at the impact and usefulness of learning styles and theories in teaching and learning. ... Behaviourist teaching approaches are based upon the idea that learning takes place when appropriate responses are reinforced and inappropriate responses are punished or ignored (Woollard, 2010, p.63). Behaviourist teaching strategies include the use of structured outcomes and activities that reward pupils. ... Cognitivism in teaching has led to the use of; videos, class presentations, case studies and debates etc (Reece and Walker, 2003, p.94). ... However, it is also sometimes use...

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K-W-L (What I Know, What I Want to Know, and What I Learned) is a teaching strategy developed by Donna Ogle (1986) used to encourage reading by first activating students" prior knowledge, then developing questions of interest to focus attention during reading, and finally reflecting on what was learned. ... This method is used by educators to activate high order thinking skill which will help students construct meaning from what they read and help them monitor their progress toward their goals. ...

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According to him, math in elementary school should impose less of the "drill-to-death" method. ... Math classes at that level begin to discourage that uninhibited curiosity by teaching students fixed steps to reach a specific solution. ...

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On the other hand, the authors differ on the methods used to uncover knowledge. ... Socrates says, "There is no such thing as teaching, only recollection."" ... While there is a similar theme of learning in both works, the authors differentiate between the methods used to uncover knowledge. ... In conclusion, Plato and Bransford both regard learning as a form of recollection that people develop, but they differ on the methods used to construct new knowledge. ...

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The creature hears DeLacey, Agatha and Felix speak, and desires to be able to communicate with them: "These people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to each other by articulate soundsThis was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it" (Shelley 114). ... Instead of aiding and teaching it, Frankenstein rejects his creature and hides its existence from the world. ...

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