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Activity Based Teaching Strategy
Week Seven
Activity Based Teaching Strategy was introduced by David Horsburg
Definition
It is a method of teaching in which the children in the class are actively involved both by mentally and physically.
Principles of ABTLM
- Activity based teaching is a learner centered approach.
- Emphasis on experience learning
- Activity based teaching promotes acquisition of social skills by providing opportunities for learner to work cooperative and collaboratively. It provides potential and creatively in individuals
- Activity based teaching encourages the union of work and play.
- Uses child friendly educational aids to foster self learning
Three kinds of learning activity are
- Exploratory:
It is done through observation and searching information where learner just need to absorb on what teacher is teaching.
- Constructive: constructive learning is basically done through experiment where it mainly focus on hands on learning.
- Expressional:
is done through sharing information and articulating with each other in form of role play, presentation etc.
Advantages of ABTLM
- The advantage of ABTLM are:
- Can be used in all the subjects
- Promotes better understanding of a lesson as it is learning by doing.
- Ethics are usually formed when using activity based.
- Enhance Self efficacy in child
- Opportunities to work independently and in groups.
- It inspires the students to apply their creative ideas, knowledge and minds in solving problems.
Disadvantages of ABTLM
- Low efficiency students cannot take active participation.
- Learner would lose interest and become inactive in the discussion.
- Lengthy procedure and requires (flawless) perfect planning.
- Focusing on activity to make learning fun can actually hamper those students
Purpose of activity based learning.
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An activity is said to be the language of the child.
- Improve social skills
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Encourage self learning .
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Make the learner do more than just listening and studying
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Greater knowledge retention and high level performance.
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Active problem solving by students
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It enhances creative aspect of experience
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Provides varied experiences to the students to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, experience, skills and values.
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Builds the students self-confidence and develops understanding through works.
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Effective in all the subjects.
Steps For Activity-based learning.
1. Planning
Teacher need to plan before hand, what activity is going to give to his his/her students and how to group them. While planning an activity to students we have to think of what? When? How? Where? And why?
2. Instruction
Ensure you give clear information before each activity. For each activity ensure you follow the principles of, what? How? With whom? Where? How long? What after?
3. Check the understanding of the instruction
Let any of them to repeat what you have instructed them to do.
4. Organizes/ Monitoring
Go around the class, involve the children in the learning process and guide them if necessary.
5. Follow up
Let your student to present their points/views to the class
6. Evaluation
Evaluate the students work and pass the judgment according to their needs.
ROLE OF A TEACHER IN ACTIVITY BASED TEACHING
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Planner
- Planning is thinking ahead. Thinking about what, why, whom, when and how it will happen. As a teacher, we have to instruct in a systematic manner, then a substantial proportion of your time and activity will be concentrated on planning-deciding what and how you want your students to learn.
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Decision maker.
- It is important in any learning to make decision. Teacher’s ability to make good decision regarding the content, the experiences and activities to be used, the organization of classroom, etc. is crucial in any teaching learning situation.
- Facilitator.
- Teacher shows respect for a child’s worth and competence and ask question to help children explore further. They encourage all the members of the group to contribute to the discussions and maintain non threatening atmosphere that permits students to feel able to comment freely. Teacher as a facilitator ensure the group works through each step in turn.
- Knowledge imparter.
Children can acquire different types of new knowledge, skills and activities.
- Evaluator/Organizer
Teacher as an evaluator is to help him determine strengths and weakness so that school experiences can enhance learning and also to judge or calculate the quality of work done by the students. When, how and how the teacher will help learning to occur involves organization. (Space, time, materials).
- Disciplinarian.
Teacher should control the class and maintain discipline while students are doing an activity.
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