Teaching Strategies Essay Marisol 8

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Universidad Alfonso ReyesUnidad Constituyentes de Nuevo Len

Licenciatura en Enseanza del Idioma Ingls

Teaching Strategies

Author: Marisol Leal Prado8 Registration Tag: L-9938

Tutor: Lic. Daniel Reyes

Monterrey, Nuevo Len July 1st

2013


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Index

Introduction ........................................................................................................1

Motivational Strategies .......................................................................................2

Principles in motivation and teaching....................................................2

Autonomy..................................................................................................2

Teachers Task..........................................................................................2

Cooperative or Collaborative Strategies..............................................................3

Cooperation or Collaboration...................................................................3

Brainstorming............................................................................................3

Focus groups............................................................................................3

Teaching Strategies for a Significant Learning....................................................3

Strategies to gather old information with the new information................3

Guided Discussions ...............................................................................4

Evaluation Strategies...........................................................................................4

Diagnostic evaluation...............................................................................5

Formative evaluation................................................................................5

Summative evaluation..............................................................................5

Conclusion...........................................................................................................6

Bibliography.........................................................................................................7


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Introduction

In this essay I will talk about the different kinds of strategies teachers use when

they work in a classroom. Also I will mention how you can apply those

strategies and how they can be of use to teachers.

For me to be able to talk about the kinds of strategies first I have to give a little

explanation about it for you to have a better idea about the topic of this essay

and to create a wide view of it.

The teachers strategies that I will be mentioning are the following ones:

Motivational strategies, Cooperative or collaborative strategies, teaching

strategies and evaluation strategies.

All of these strategies would be explained through this essay, many of them

with my own words and others by quotations of authors that certainly know

more about this topic than I do.


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Teaching Strategies

Every day teachers find themselves with all kinds of students, every single

student has a unique way of learning and behaving and because of that the

teacher need to develop or learn strategies to be able to have a better

management of their classrooms.

The strategies according to Monereo (1994) are defined as A planned joint of

techniques and actions that lead to the execution of predetermined goals during

the educational process. This means that the strategies are like a set of things

or activities that help the class to get the general objectives of the learning

goals.

This are used for the students to have a better learning, for them to form a

major and increased way of learning and a good organization of their new with

the already learn information.

In addition, I will explain briefly 4 types of strategies that the teacher uses in the

classroom, these are the motivational strategies, the cooperative or

collaborative strategies, the teaching strategies and the evaluation strategies.

The motivational strategies are those that the teacher uses to encourage the

intrinsic motivation on their students, this motivation can be developed through

the way the teacher manages the topics or the content that it is going to be

seen in class.

This kind of motivation can happen if the teacher makes the information a lot

more interesting for the student, making the student feel challenged with the

exercises the teacher uses, also by mixing the types of tasks in each lesson.

This makes the students autonomous in the way of doing their homework by

themselves and researching for it.


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The way of how they are distributed in the classroom, you can put them in pairs,

or in groups of 5 depending on how many students do you have and so on; is

also very important because the teacher needs to see which students get along

better, for in this way they can work together in a nicer atmosphere and with

that acquiring more motivation to participate in class.

The teachers job is to transmit a good message to their students giving them

information about their progress, and, also being the most fair possible for them

to feel that they are being evaluated as their classmates.

To promote a cooperative or a collaborative work is very important in a

classroom. According to this strategy the students get involved not only in an

educational way, but also, in a social way, they get independent, autonomous,

and they learn to work with different kinds of groups.

The cooperative and collaborative work is very important because they can

develop ways of dealing with different kinds of people, and it helps them to

enrich their patience towards others and interact with them.

Theres a slight difference between cooperative and collaborative work, actually

it is not a very big difference, in collaborative work the students have all the

control of what they learn unlike in the cooperative work in which the teacher

has the control of everything they learn .

There are several strategies in cooperative and collaborative work and I will

mention a couple:

Brainstorming: This strategy focuses on generate a lot of ideas that the students

give to the teacher in order to solve a problem or situation, in which the class

gets together and starts giving a lot of options or ideas until they find an answer

to the problem.


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Focus groups: This is very similar to the brainstorming only the difference is that

they get videotaped, to be able to see the process of how they were generating

all the ideas and how they got an answer to a certain problem.

The teaching strategies for a significant learning are used to promote the

(significant learning) on students, like using old knowledge to generate new

expectation on them; these can be accomplished by guiding discussions by the

teacher.

According to Ausubel (1978) we now that old knowledge of students is very

important to build new knowledge (Ausubel, 2002; Miras, 1993). This strategies

need to be applied in the start of every class or before the students begin any

activity.

The strategies that teachers use are: Guided Discussions: Is an interactive

procedure in which the teacher and the students talk about a specific topic of

interest. In this strategy the students since the beginning of the activity they

activate their old thoughts and thanks to the exchanges of information the y can

develop and share their new knowledge that they didnt have in the past.

Also the use of concept maps, flow diagrams, synoptic maps, timelines and so

on are very used by teachers for the students to really create and learn how to

be able to develop a significant learning.

Another kind of strategies that teachers must acquire or already have are the

evaluation strategies, these are very important for every teacher, evaluation is

a very complex activity and at the same time is necessary and essential for the

teacher.

There are 3 types of evaluation, diagnostic, formative and summative

evaluation, these have to be in that exact order for the evaluation to be

confident and reliable.


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Also the evaluation needs to be global and objective and with these 3 types of

evaluation the teacher will be able to accomplish that. Next there are the

definition of each of the types of evaluation the first one is Diagnostic

evaluation this evaluation is the one that is made before the development of an

educational process; it is also called prediction evaluation.

The diagnostic evaluation can be of 2 kinds: initial and punctual, the initial: is

only applied before any educational process or activity. The punctual: Unlike the

initial evaluation this one can be applied in different moments of the educational

process, before or after.

Formative evaluation this evaluation is strictly pedagogical it regulates the

educational process to adapt or adjust the pedagogical conditions. It is

interested in how the progress of the students is developed and accomplished.

Summative evaluation this evaluation is always applied at the end of an

educational process or educational course. This part of evaluation is focused on

if the educational goals were accomplished by the students.


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Conclusion

Every teacher uses different strategies in their classrooms and they use them

differently than other teachers, and is up to each teacher to use what strategy

and how there is no right or set strategy for them o use.

We as future teachers to be need to know these different kinds of strategies and

the ones that I did not mentioned for us to have a better way of working with our

students.

There are a lot of different strategies in the educational world that not all

teachers know and it is very important for them to know at least some of them,

otherwise they wont be able to have a good class.


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Bibliography

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Docentes para un aprendizaje significativo.

Ahumada, P.(2003). La evaluacin de una concepcin del aprendizaje

significativo.

Echeita, G. (1995). El aprendizaje cooperativo. Un anlisis psicosocial

de sus ventajas respecto a otras estructuras de aprendizaje

Dweck, C. y Elliot, E. (1983). Achievement Motivation.

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