Objectivist
teaching seems to be a standard style of teaching. The teacher stands in front of the classroom
with authority. The teacher then gives a
presentation over what the student should be learning, and then puts a question
to the student to see if they understand the material. If the student is right, then they are
rewarded. If the student is wrong, then
the presentation is repeated until the student understands and remembers the
material. This instruction style rewards
being correct and punishes being incorrect.
Constructivist
teaching seems to be a more creative way of teaching in that the teacher is
actually teaching the students “how to learn.”
In this style of teaching, the teacher becomes a master of ‘the
question.’ The question is posed so to
bring students to think critically upon previous experiences of their own to
form an appropriate response. Rewards
are not given on being correct or incorrect, but on engaging in learning the
material based off of the material they already know. In this way, the student becomes equipped at
learning through guidance of their own knowledge.
As a
future teacher, I find that both styles are important. In language arts, sometimes rules are rules
such as in regard to grammar. However, I
like the concept of building off of what the student already knows. If I were to teach constructively, then I
could allow students to learn grammar off of sentences they already know and
understand. I could have my students
guess what they find to be a correct sentence before displaying what the rules
are. Maybe memorization isn’t the
key? Language arts would be a great
field to engage in constructivist teaching because there is already so much
creativity allowed. Even in teaching
novels, instead of posing questions testing whether the students read the text,
I could ask them questions that brought the themes of the novels to real world
problems. I could engage the students in
the text based off what they have already learned in their daily lives. I would like to put learning in the hands of
the students, and teach them how in many ways, they are their own teachers.
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