CHAPTER 5 Research – Based Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

CHAPTER 5

Research – Based Teaching and Learning in the 21^st Century

Mark Jones  M. Delgado                                                                              BSEd II - English

 

Research- Based Teaching means that the learners, teachers and the curriculum apply research – based approach in the learning – teaching process with an open outcome.

Categories of Instructional Strategies

1. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

 - Provide students with a direction for learning and information about how well they are performing relative to a particular learning objective so they can improve their performance.

2. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

 - Provide students with abstract tokens of recognition or praise for their accomplishments related to the attainment of a goal.

3. Cooperative Learning

 - Provide students with opportunities to interact with one another in ways that enable their learning.

4. Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

 - Enhance students’ ability to retrieve, use and organize what they already know about the topic.

5. Non- linguistic Representations

 - Enhance student’s ability to represent and elaborate on knowledge using mental images.

6. Summarizing and Note Taking

- Enhance student’s ability to synthesize information and organize it in a way that captures the main idea and supporting details.

7. Assigning Homework and Providing Practice

 - Enhance student’s ability to reach the expected level of proficiency for a skill or process.

8. Identifying Similarities and Differences

- Enhance students’ understanding of and ability to use knowledge by engaging them in mental processes that involve identifying ways in which items are alike and objectives.

9. Generating and Testing Hypotheses

- Enhance students’ understanding of and ability to use knowledge by engaging them in mental processes that involve making and testing hypotheses.

To help students learn for mastery the teacher must ensure mastery by seeing to it that he/she creates a positive learning atmosphere develops through understanding of the lesson not only memory or recall and that he/she gives opportunities to students to extend and apply their learning.

Reflection

            We all know that we are sons of the 21^st digital century. We are very much engaged with technologies and other materials offered by this current century. Even our educational system is now experiencing technological revolution from oral based to print based of learning.

            In this chapter, many ideas were added in my knowledge about research based learning in the 21^st learning century. I was overwhelmed with bundles of informations I have gathered in this concept. I was able to find out different learning strategies that enable me to meet my desired learning environment. I have learned that in teaching, we should not depend on the old way, the chalk and talk way but we should integrate learning that is interesting and enjoyable.

            I should give feedbacks to the performances of my students for them to improve what they need to improve. Also, I will provide students with tokens of recognition for their accomplishments. I will also employ cooperation to each and everyone to have an interaction between them. Next, I will provide questions to enhance their ability to answer and their knowledge itself. I will also provide different non-linguistic representations for them to exercise their mental abilities especially, generating mental images. I will exploit summarizing and note taking for their ideas to be converted from complex to easy to understand manner. I will also provide home works for the students to stay the information at a longer range. I will also identify individual’s similarities and differences. Lastly, I will enhance student’s understanding by giving them the opportunity to generate and test their hypotheses. These are the things that I have gathered in Chapter 5 research – based and learning in the 21^st century.

 I am going to apply these in my future needs by conducting several activities that would lead them to accurate and great learning. These are the categories that will help mould students to achieve learning and outcome if these strategies are utilized inside the classroom. I will create positive ambiance that develops understanding of the lesson not only using the memories but giving them the opportunity to apply their learning as well.  Accompanying them with these strategies, they will learn how to break complex manner to easy to understand thought. This is the process of converting and compressing information that makes idea shorten, yet understandable one.

I will utilize my skills, talent and wit in imparting my knowledge about the things they are needed to know. Learning is not just talking and absorbing everything what had been said but it is making every learning visible and feasible.