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Ms. Neelofer Mehdi
Advance Diploma in Human Development (Early Child Development)
Teaching Methodologies in
Early Years Classrooms
Objectives
• To explore modern teaching methods used in early years classrooms
• To recognize the impacts of teaching methods on child’s holistic development
• To promote modern teaching and learning practices in challenging environment
your challenges……
Write
Lets Reflect
Now think!!!
• What do you expect from your teaching?
• As a student who was your favorite teacher and why?
• Why we are interested in this
topic?
Traditional Approach
Out come of
Traditional
Teaching
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How come the more I talk the less my students learn?
How traditional teaching is different from modern teaching methods?
Advantages of Lecturing
• Spark interest
• Provide unavailable information
• Convey large amounts of information
• Reach large audiences
• Model ways of thinking
• Maintain control
• Protect students
• Help auditory learners
Source: Sutherland and Bonwell
Disadvantages of Lecturing
• Passive students
• Inadequate feedback
• Flagging attention
• Poor retention
• Burden on lecturer
• Non-auditory learners
Source: Sutherland and Bonwell
Students Tune Out
Source: Pollio
Lectures Assume Homogeneity
Fundamentals of Active learning
1. Learning is an active process.
2. Different people learn in different ways.
3. We often don’t know what we think until we try to say it or write it.
4. Just because you’ve said it doesn’t mean they’ve learned it.
Tell me and I forget,
Show me and I remember,
Involve me and I understand.
Make lesson alive in Classroom
Remember:
A learner learns in response to needs. Need relate to the situation in which they live therefore, Education should be life related.
Therefore: The relationship between [students'] active involvement and effective learning is very strong
Obama bends over so the son of WhiteHouse staff member can pat his head during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own.
Howard Gardner’s Multiple
Intelligences
• Linguistic intelligence
• Logical/Mathematical intelligence
• Visual/Spatial intelligence
• Musical intelligence
• Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence
• Interpersonal intelligence
• Intrapersonal intelligence
• Naturalist intelligence
Write
• How can you over come those challenges?
Lets explore some modern teaching methods that ensure child’s active involvement
Lectures - Guest Speaker
Discussions (Two way interaction
through questioning skills)
Small Group discussions
Large group presentations by students
Slide shows
Library research
Posters
Video / Movies
Brain Storming
Teaching Methodologies cont..
Survey
Role Playing/Drama
Drawing/put ideas into pictures
Puppet show
Narration (Story)
Pictorial presentation of Story
Cartoon (pictorial)
Teaching Methodologies cont..
Imagination
Flash cards
Singing/poems
Poetry writing
Newspapers/magazines/reading material
Story writing
Book reviews
Model Making
Teaching Methodologies cont..
Flow Charts
Map Making
Puzzles
Art work
Play
Time Lines
Sequencing the stories
Picture stories
Clues Forming a Story
Teaching Methodologies
Storying
• Read and act out the stories:
1. Moral stories, Prophet’s Stories, Fairy tales,Fables.
• When can we use story?
• Why tell stories?
• What can children learn from story?
Asking Questions
• Why do we ask questions?
• examples of questions for the story
– Observation questions
– Interpretation questions
– Application questions
• When can you ask these questions?
Understanding the Story
• How would you introduce the story?
• What questions do we ask after a starter or story? – Provoke thinking
– Observation questions: What did you See?
– Interpretation questions: What is Happening? Why?
– Application questions: Does this happen in Our place? What should we Do about it?
Involving the Children
• How can you involve the children in the story?
– They can name the characters or change the animals.
– They can act out the story.
– Ask them questions during the story, such as, “What should he have done instead?”
– Have them give another ending to the story.
– Ask them to relate the story to their own lives.
Impact of modern teaching methods on Child’s Holistic Development
• Physical Development
• Linguistic Development
• Social –Emotional Development
• Cognitive Development
Group work is a very effective teaching method •Jigsaw
•Cooperative learning helps learner’s to acquire social skills.
•Think-pair-share
Particularly dealing with differences
Safe Time and Resources
Develop Teamwork
Develops Communication skills
Improve decision making and problem
solving skills
Key Learning from Group Activities
• Use teaching method which involves more senses
• Focused on holistic development of learners
• Provide more opportunities to work in pair and groups
Things to remember!!!!
• Go beyond the curriculum
• Integrate the concept with student’s daily life.
• Involve maximum opportunities student to participate in teaching and learning process.
Can you
• promote modern teaching methods in your own settings?
• How?
No single teaching method or
approach will be successful
with all children.
Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998;
IRA & NAEYC position statement, 1998
Good teaching should be the centre piece of efforts to improve developmental outcomes for
children.