Teacher Centered Approaches to Teaching

            Now, I will talk about the teacher centered approaches to teaching which are direct instruction and presenting. Let’s start with presenting. When the teacher presenting some information, he should;

• Choose objectives and content 
• Diagnose students’ prior knowledge 
• Plan for use of time and space

The objectives and content should be chosen according to the students’ grade level, age group and course objectives. Because the students’ learning capacity are different and the teacher have to know and apply according to them. When presenting something, the sentences should be clear and the teacher shouldn’t use full sentences, key points enough. You should organize the content in a meaningful order. Also, the students’ prior knowledge is also important factor when you are presenting. Because, the retention of the new information increase if the content is connected with the students’ prior knowledge.  Also, you should use the time effectively and apply a good formation of desks.  The formation of the desk plan is important for also direct instruction. Because the interaction with the students and teacher, also student and student should be suitable for learning process.

For the direct instruction, you should plan how to use direct instruction during the lesson. My advises for that:

Firstly, you should gain students’ attention, clarify goals. And then, give the instruction or skill. After you give the instruction, you can provide practices for them to make it more clear. Later, you can check the students understanding and give feedback. And the last advice, you should extend the practices and transfer. I will also mention some guidelines for providing feedback, because it is the most important step for the students’ learning process. You should give a feedback as soon as possible after the practice. With that way, you can easily understand the students’ understanding. If you give a negative feedback to the student, you should show how to perform correctly. And the other important advice, you should teach students how to provide feedback themselves. They should think and know how they correct themselves.