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Methods of Teaching

The document outlines various teaching methods, including learner-centered, content-focused, interactive, lecture, discussion, discovery, project, field trip, individual instructional, and brainstorming methods. Each method emphasizes different roles for teachers and students, ranging from teacher-centered approaches like lectures to more collaborative and exploratory methods like discussions and discovery. The document highlights the importance of adapting teaching strategies to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.

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Methods of Teaching

The document outlines various teaching methods, including learner-centered, content-focused, interactive, lecture, discussion, discovery, project, field trip, individual instructional, and brainstorming methods. Each method emphasizes different roles for teachers and students, ranging from teacher-centered approaches like lectures to more collaborative and exploratory methods like discussions and discovery. The document highlights the importance of adapting teaching strategies to enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.

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Different methods of teaching:

1:Learner-Centered Method:
In learner-centered method, the teacher plays a dual role as a teacher and a learner
at the same time so that the classroom extends rather than constricts the teacher’s
intellectual horizons.While the teacher still holds the authority figure in this
teaching model, the teacher and the students play an equally active role in the
learning process.

The teacher becomes more a resource rather than an authority and his primary role
is to facilitate student learning. In the process, the teacher also learns and discover
new things. Examples of learner-centered methods are discussion method or
discovery or inquiry based approach.

2:Content-focused method:
In content-focused method, both the teacher and the learners have to fit into the
content that is taught. Generally, this means the information and skills to be taught
are regarded as sacrosanct. Emphasis is laid on the clarity and careful analysis of
the content and both the teacher and the learners cannot alter or become critical of
anything with the content.

• 3:Interactive Method :
The interactive method borrow a bit from the aforesaid three methods without
necessarily laying undue emphasis on either the learner, content or teacher. These
methods are driven by the situational analysis of what is the most appropriate thing
to do in a given situation forthe learners and the teacher.
Interactive method require a participatory understanding of varied domains and
factors.

4: Lecture:
We usually consider lecture as the normal method of teaching as it is convenient
and the most suitable with large classroom sizes. Lecture is the oral relaying of
factual information which includes principles, concepts, ideas and theories about a
given topic.

The lecturer actively tells, explains, describes or relates whatever information the
learners are required to learn or understand. It is therefore teacher-centered. The
learners on the other hand are very inactive, doing all the listening and
understanding.

5:The Discussion Method:

Discussion method is based on the philosophy that knowledge arises within the
students and not from any external source. The students take over the subject from
various points of view and the teacher serves as a moderator.

6:Discovery Method:
Discovery method is a teaching strategy which enables students to find the
answers themselves.

It is a learner centred approach hence it is called a heuristic method. It is of two


types, notably, the guided discovery and the unguided discovery. In the guided
discovery, the teacher (you) guides the students to discover for themselves
solutions to given problems by providing them with general principles, but not the
solution to the scientific problem. The unguided discovery type involves the
students discovering for themselves both the general principles and solution to a
scientific problem. It is sometimes called the pure discovery.

7:The Project Method :


The Project Method of teaching centers on an assignment of interest undertaken by
an individual student or a group or a whole class.

In this method, the students are guided when necessary.

8:The Field Trip:


This method involves taking learners on an excursion outside the classroom for
the purpose of making relevant observation for the purpose of obtaining
Technological and Vocational Information. Field trip as a method can be used in
teaching Business Studies, Sciences and some art subjects like Yoruba, History,
etc.

9:The Individual Instructional Method:


This method is a programmed instruction in which the learning programmes are
presented in carefully structured steps and the steps depend on the individual
student and the nature of materials to be learned. For example the pace of learning
depends on individual students.

10:Brainstorming Method:
There are many names for brainstorming in studies and literature, and they have
the same meaning and essence. It is a common term for specific methods of
innovative thinking in developing new ideas that includes individual activity or
small group activity in which a deliberate attempt is made to innovative thinking.
Brainstorming leads to freedom from the constraints imposed by thought or
imposed by traditional methods. Therefore, this method is considered an individual
and group method, although it was originally prepared for group work, and it is
directed towards small groups activity.

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