Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Code: 6400
Semester: 1st B.ed
Paper: General Methods of Teaching
Subject: General Methods of Teaching
Date: 11-6-2021
Roll num: CB653808
Q1: Define teaching and elaborate the concept of teaching in the light of
theoretical Perspectives.
Ans: What is teaching
Teaching is defined as one of the instruments of education that is a special function
to impart understanding and skill. The most important function of teaching is to
make the learning system more effective. The learning process will be completed
as a result of teaching. Thus, teaching and learning have a very close relation with
each other. Teaching in the light of theoretical perspectives. Teaching in the light
of Theoretical perspectives is well developed theoretical positions of some aspects
of a social or educational phenomenon which can act as starting points for making
sense of some research topics.
Teaching theory gives explanation, do prediction and work for the control of how
teacher’s behavior affects the learning between the students.
Three types of theory of teaching
Transmission:
It explains the effective teaching which requires a substantial commitment to
the content and the subject matter. Effective teaching that has command to
their subject.
Apprenticeship:
It explains the effective teaching that is a process of socializing the students
to a new norm in professional ways of working. The teachers are highly
skillful practitioners of what they have to teach.
Social Reform: It explains the effective teaching that seeks for change in the
society in different ways. Teachers are here concerned for changing the
social norms of society or a profession.
Q2: How is 5E’s model of lesson planning different from the others models?
Also highlight the Hunter’s seven steps of lesson planning.
Ans: The widely used model of 5E teaching sequence that includes the progression
stages each time: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. All E’s are
helpful for providing the information and deliver the lessons.
The model is quite different from the other models as it provides a detailed and
progression in the lesson planning. Here is an example if how if differs from the
other models and is helpful and used.
When the instructor starts the class, instructors open his/her lesson with a starter
activity or question that engage students, catch their interest, and it offer the
opportunity for the students to brainstorm on the relevant topics that what they
already know on the subject. In this phase students make connections between their
pre-existing knowledge and their new ideas that will come to them during the
lesson. For this many teachers use KWL charts, which asks the students to list
what they already know about the topic and what they want to learn during the
class. At the end of the topic the students go back to their KWL sheet to list what
they learned.
Once they got engaged then comes to explore, in which the students are involved
in hands-on hands activities. With the help of their experiments or other
interactions with the material, they deepen their understanding of the content.
After the exploration phase the students tries to explain what they have learned and
experienced by help from the teacher who then explains the important concepts
and terms encountered during exploration.
At first instance, the 5 E’s models seem like a good model for hands-on-hands,
student-centred lessons.
Students who are usually weak in taking notes suffer a lot, they sometime
miss out important information. have trouble understanding what they
should remember from group discussions.
Some students sometimes may not feel comfortable to share their personal
experiences in classroom discussion.
The Discussion methods defined as the variety of forums for conducting open-
ended, exchange of ideas among a teacher and students or between the students for
the purpose of students thinking collaboratively, literary appreciation, learning and
problem solving and understanding etc. Participants present in the discussion gives
multiple points of view and respond to the ideas of others as well. They also reflect
on their own ideas in effort for building their knowledge, their understanding and
interpretation of the issue.
The defining feature of discussion is that the students have the sufficient for the
construction of knowledge along with their understanding and interpretation. In
other words, they have considerable “interpretive authority” for evaluating the
plausibility or validity of participants responses.