APPROACHES TO TEACHING

Teaching Approach
 Set of principles, beliefs, or ideas about the nature of learning which is translated in the
classroom

PROCESS APPROACH
 An approach which provides students with an abundance of projects, activities, and
instructional designs that allow them to make decisions and solve problems.
 Students get a sense that learning is much more than the commission of facts to
memory.
 Implies that students can manipulate, decide, solve, predict, and structure the
knowledge in ways that are meaningful to them.
 When teachers and parents provide opportunities for students to actively process
information, then learning becomes more child-centered. This results in attitudes,
perceptions, and beliefs that the natural world can be actively explored and personally
investigated – and that the environment, both near and far, is full of incredible learning
possibilities…along with a whole lot of fun!

EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING
 Process of making meaning from direct experience.
 Process of acquiring skills, knowledge and understanding through experience rather
than through formal education or training.
 This process of learning involves the student in his/her learning to a much greater
degree than in traditional (pedagogical) learning environments.
 It addresses the needs and wants of the learner and is seen to be equivalent to personal
change and growth.

INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
 Integrated learning incorporates multiple subjects, which are usually taught separately,
in an interdisciplinary method of teaching.
 The integrated approach is one in which learners learn by doing in a learner centered
environment in learner-interest contexts.
 The goal is to help pupils remain engaged and draw from multiple sets of skills,
experiences and sources of aid and accelerate the learning process
 Learning through an integrated studies approach is enhanced when studies are actively
engaged in meaningful and relative topics.
 Learners construct and produce knowledge by solving problems, conducting inquiry,
engaging in reflection and building a repertoire of effective strategies.
 Integrated studies help pupils to become life long learners and allows efficient coverage
and delivery of curriculum in terms of expertise, resources and time.
 It allows students to engage in purposeful, relevant learning.
 It encourages students to see the interconnectedness and interrelationships between
the curriculum areas.
 Students are able to use their prior experiences to construct learning.
 Because integrated units are child-centered, they provide opportunities for cross-
cultural sharing.
 Opportunities for students to display competence are given rather than relying on a
written or oral test.