Workshop 4 Choosing Instructional Approaches

Getting Ready (15 minutes)

Look at the following list of teaching approaches. Check all the approaches you use regularly. Add any approaches that you find missing.

Then, indicate the three or four approaches that are most important to you in your teaching.

Coaching Conferencing Critiquing Debates Dialogue Discussion Field study Group work Guided practice

Inquiry Journaling Lecturing Mentoring Modeling Peer tutoring Problem-solving Questioning Role-playing

Compare your list with those of others in the group. Discuss these questions:

• What approaches are most common?
• What do you think accounts for the overlap? The fact that you are all arts teachers? A shared philosophy of teaching?
• Where do your approaches differ?
• Do the lists vary according to art form? If so how, and why do you think this is?

 

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