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Psychology Applied to Teaching
, Tenth Edition
Jack Snowman, Southern Illinois University
Robert Biehler
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Chapter 10: Approaches to Instruction
- Mager and Gronlund support different approaches to writing
instructional objectives. How are their approaches similar and how are they
different? Which approach do you believe most closely aligns with your beliefs
about instructional objectives? Why? Write one objective for your subject
area using the approach you identified above.
- In recent years, it seems that lecturing as an instructional
approach has received a great deal of criticism. Why do you think this is
so? Can you think of any specific examples when lecture might be the most
appropriate approach? What can teachers do to make lecturing more enjoyable
and beneficial for students?
- Cognitive approaches to teaching stress the importance
of making things meaningful for students. With these approaches, students
must take on some of the responsibility for their own learning. What are
some ways that teachers can guide student learning without directing it?
As a future teacher, what are your biggest concerns regarding playing a
more facilitating and less structured role? Do you think students are capable
of guiding their own learning? Why or why not?
- There is much debate over the role of the school in our
society. Some believe that the main focus for schools should be learning
while others feel an equally important focus should be on children's socialization.
What is your opinion about this debate? Do you think teachers should have
to worry about students' social and emotional needs as well as their cognitive
growth? Why or why not? What can schools and communities do to help teachers
in their teaching of social lessons?
- In your own experiences, how effective has cooperative
learning been as an instructional approach? What are some reasons that it
was successful or unsuccessful? Will you use cooperative learning in your
own teaching? Why or why not? If you will use it, how will you use it?
- Give some examples of how each instructional approach
mentioned in Chapter 10 can be enhanced by technology. How will you use
technology in your own teaching? Why or why not? How will you evaluate the
effectiveness of technology in your classroom?
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