INTRODUCTION

Teaching Approach: It is a set of principles, beliefs, or ideas about the nature of

learning which is translated into the classroom.

Some teaching approaches include but not limited to:

1. Interactive approach
2. Constructivist approach
3. integrated approach
4. disciplinary approach
5. collaborative approach
6. individualistic approach
7. direct teaching approach
8. indirect guided approach
9. whole child approach
10.metacognitive approach

INTERACTIVE APPROACH In this approach, an interactive classroom will have

more student talk and less teacher talk. Students are given the opportunity to
interact with teacher and with other students.

CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH The students are expected to construct

knowledge and meaning out for what they are taught by connecting them to prior
experience.

INTEGRATED APPROACH It makes the teacher connects what he/she teaches to

other lessons of the same subject (intradisciplinary) or connects his/her lessons
with other subjects thus making his/her approach interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary.

DISCIPLINAL APPROACH It limits the teacher to discussing his/her lessons

within the boundary of his/her subject.

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH It will welcome group work, teamwork,

partnerships, and group discussion.

INDIVIDUALISTIC APPROACH It wants the individual students to work by

themselves.
DIRECT TEACHING APPROACH The teacher directly tells or shows or
demonstrates what is to be taught.

INDIRECT GUIDED APPROACH The teacher guides the learner to discover

things for himself/herself. The teacher facilitates the learning process by allowing
the learner to be engaged in the learning process with his/her guidance.

WHOLE CHILD APPROACH The learning process itself takes into account not
only the academic needs of the learners, but also their emotional, creative,
psychological, spiritual, and developmental needs.

METACOGNITIVE APPROACH The teaching process brings the learner to the

process of thinking about thinking. The learner reflects on what he learned and on
his/her ways of learning.

References

Du, Wenjiang (2012). Informatics and Management Science V. London: Springer.

Neeraja, K.P. (2011). Textbook of Communication and Education Technology for

Nurses. London: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Ltd.

Petrina, S. (2007) Advance Teaching Methods for the Technology Classroom

(pp.125 - 153). Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing.

Vanaja, M. (2004). Methods Of Teaching Physics. New Delhi: Discovery

Publishing House.

Westwood, P. (2008). What teachers need to know about Teaching methods.

Camberwell, Vic, ACER Press