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We will now see the general classification of teaching methods, taking into consideration a number of issues, some of which are implicit in the organization of the school.

These issues highlight the positions of teacher, student discipline and school organization in the educational process. The aspects taken into account: in the form of reasoning, coordination of material, realization of education, systematization of the material, student activities, globalization of knowledge, teacher’s relationship with the child, acceptance of what taught and student work.

1. The methods in the form of reasoning

• Deductive method: When the subject studied is from general to particular.

• Inductive Method: When the subject studied is presented through individual cases, suggesting the discovery of the general principle that governs them.

• Analog or Comparative Method: When the particular data that enable comparisons are leading to a conclusion by similarity.

2. The methods in the coordination of the matter

• Logical Method: This is when the data or facts are presented in order of antecedent and consequent, in obedience to a structuring of events ranging from least to most complex.

• Psychological Method: This is when presentation of the methods is therefore a logical order as an order closer to the interests, needs and experiences of the learner.

3. The methods concerning the realization of the teaching

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Teaching method is the set of moments and logically coordinated techniques to direct student learning toward specific goals. The method is the one who makes sense of unity to all the steps in the teaching and learning and as a principal or as regards the presentation of the material and preparing it.

Teaching method is logical and didactic unit procedures that tend to direct learning, including in it from the presentation and preparation of material relevant to the verification and correction of learning.

Methods, in general and the nature of the ends sought, can be grouped into three types:

• Research Methods: These are methods that seek to enhance or deepen our knowledge.
• Methods of Organization: They work on facts and try to order and discipline efforts so that there is efficiency in which you want to.
• Transmission Methods: Designed to convey knowledge, attitudes and ideals are also known methods of teaching are the intermediaries between the teacher and students in educational exerted on the latter.

Education must perform 10 functions:

1. Encourage and motivate attention
2. Introduce to students the learning objectives
3. Activate prior knowledge and students habit. relevant to the new learning to perform (advance organizers)
4. Provide information on the contents to learn or to propose learning activities (preparing contrexto, organize)
5. To direct the learning activities of students
6. Encourage student interaction with learning activities, with materials, with co … and provoke responses
7. Tutoring, provide feedback to their responses
8. Provide activities for the transfer and generalization of learning
9. Facilitate the memory
10. Evaluate the learning achieved

Education activities undertaken by teachers are inevitably linked to the learning processes that, following his instructions, carried out by students. The objective of teachers and students is always the achievement of specific educational objectives and the key to success is that students are able and willing to perform cognitive operations suitable for it, interacting well with the educational resources at your fingertips.

The main objective of teaching students is that positive progress in the development of his person and in accordance with their capabilities and other individual circumstances, to achieve the expected learning in the course program (established in accordance with the guidelines of the Curriculum Project Center, PPC). Read the rest of this entry »