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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

In today class, we learned about the topic deductive teaching strategy.
Deductive teaching strategy: In this strategy there is present of both principle and generalization which should be followed by application or testing of this principle.It also lead students from unknown to known, abstract to concrete or complex to simple.
Purposes of Deductive teaching strategy.
  • Teacher centered approach where students are taken as blank slates,where by more dependency on teacher,limit student thinking ability. This strategy is mainly focused in helping low ability students to enhance their learning.
Phases of Deductive teaching strategy.

  1. Presentation of abstruction.
  2. The teacher Illustration with example.
  3. Students give examples of concept and apply them in new situation.
  4. Students restates the concepts or definition that they have learned.
Advantages of Deductive teaching strategy
  1. less time consuming
  2. It is different from rote learning as it is the strategy ,where logical interlinking of element is encourage.
  3. Most of the school material/curriculum can be easily taught following deductive strategy.
  4. This method involve all level of questions.
Dis-advantages of Deductive teaching strategy
  1.  Students are not actively involve in the beginning of the lesson.
  2. Since it is a teacher centered approach ,it may be challenging for higher students.
Role Of Teacher
  1. Teacher need to plan and prepared detail information about the content.
  2. Present principles and generalizations.
  3. Provides guidance as scaffolding.