APPROACHES IN

TEACHING SS
Teaching Social Studies (PG)
1. Constructivist Teaching
2. Collaborative
3. Experiential and Contextualized ( reported)
4. Thematic (reported)
5. Conceptual Approach (reported)
6. Integrative
Constructivist teaching

 This is based on the belief that learning occurs when learners are actively involved in a
process of meaning and knowledge construction as opposed to passively receiving
information.
 Learners are the makers of meaning and knowledge
 .
 Characteristics of Constructivist Teaching

1. Authentic activities and real-world environments

a) Learning is relevant, realistic, authentic and represent the real world.
b) Primary sources of data are used to ensure authenticity and the real world.
c) Assessment is authentic and interwoven with teaching.
d) Learners are able to practice learning the tasks, skills & knowledge
2. Multiple Perspectives or interpretations
 Learning environment should support multiple interpretations of reality, knowledge
construction, and context-rich experience-based activities.
 Activities, opportunities, tools and environments are provided to encourage metacognition,
self-analysis, regulation, reflection and awareness.
 Characteristics of Constructivist Teaching

3. Wholistic, Integrative
- Emphasis is on interrelation of concepts and interdisciplinary learning.
4. Self-directed learners
- Learners explore and seek knowledge independently in the pursuit of goals.
- Teachers provide scaffolding to facilitate learning beyond the limits of learners’ ability.
5. Meaningful Learning
- Knowledge construction not reproduction ( not memorizing)
- Learner’s previous knowledge constructions, beliefs and attitudes are considered in the
knowledge construction process.
- Errors provide the opportunity for insight.
What is the difference between
teaming and collaboration based
on the image?
Collaborative Teaching

 Students learn better when they learn from others.

 Based on the principle of Synergy, what a whole group of students can do is
more that the sum of what each student can do separately.
 Students learn better cooperatively than in a competitive atmosphere.
 Working in a group is less threatening than working alone.
How is it done?

 Collaboration: to work with a person or a group to produce or create something.

 Every member can share something in the attainment of the goal and each member’s
contribution may VARY according to one’s capacity.
 Collaborative learning operates on respect and trust for any relationship to prosper.
 The tasked are structured so that the group goal cannot be achieved without the members
collaborating.
 The task does not end with assessment but in a group reflecting and analyzing what made
them or not realize their group goal.