Elements of a Teaching Approach

Elements of Teaching Approaches:

Popular discussion on education as well as recent findings in the learning sciences tell a similar story. The model of education typical of 20th century classrooms was effective for that era of human history, but the ‘knowledge society’ we now live in requires new thinking about what constitutes effective and engaging teaching and learning. Teachers are now faced with the challenge that former conceptions of knowledge, minds and learning no longer serve a world where what we know is less important that what we are able to do with knowledge in different contexts.

So, teaching approaches like inquiry-based approach is helping to increase intellectual engagement and foster deep understanding through the development of a hands-on, minds-on and ‘research-based disposition’ towards teaching and learning.

Hence, the first video is completely based on “Lecture Method” wherein the active participation of the students was lacking and was teacher-centered learning. However, the second video was more of “Inquiry-based Method” wherein the students was actively participating in the class and was student-centered learning.