Reflection Paper 8

This class was all done through the presentation by Dessang Dorji and his group. It was all about Questioning Strategy. In this i learned that questioning strategy helps to create a life long, independent learners. There are about three types of questioning strategies i.e. Socratic questioning,  Blooms Taxonomy, and Kipling's questioning strategy.


I. Socratic Questioning:
Six types of Questioning-
1. Conceptual clarification question:  it gets the students to think more about what exactly are they asking or thinking about.


2. Probing Assumptions:  its all about  assumption of answer from the students.


3. Probing rational, reasons and evidence: it focuses mainly on reasoning.


4. Questioning viewpoints and perspective: it focuses on questions which can be debatable.


5. Probe Implications and Consequences:  mainly focuses on What is best and Why


6. Questions about the questions: attacking the questions through questions.




II. Bloom Taxonomy:
1. Remembering: restate.


2. Understanding: grasps the meaning.


3. Applying: use the information in other area.


4. Analysing: breaks the information into small parts.


5. Evaluating: makes the decision based on in depth reflection, criticism and assessment.


6. Creating: the learners create new ideas.


III. Kipling's Questioning:
5 Wives and Husband.


1. What: noun responses.


2. Why: deeper understanding of information.


3. When: single out time and duration.


4. Who: connects with actions and things.


5. Where: dimensional, regional and geographical space.


6. How: seeks verb of process. probing into deeper details. time and quantity.




*NOTE: A good question always have an answer, whether it is hard or simple.

Reflection Paper 7

This session was all about Deduction Teaching Strategy and it was taught in deduction method. In this method, the tutor dose all the work. it is basically leading the students from unknown to known, complex to simple or abstract to concrete. it is a teacher centered approach and this strategy creates dependency in students, limiting their thinking ability.

Reflection Paper 6

In this class, we at first recapitulated what we did on  our previous class, this class was normally based on again inductive teaching strategy. What i learned in this class is that inductive teaching is actually about applying what we know to what we don't know in which the tutor has so many things to do like asking lots and lots of questions to the students and make them think about the examples and come up with generalization. The main aim of inductive teaching strategy is to make the students an independent life long learners. What i also learned is that the strategy used by our tutor was Arouson's Jig-saw Strategy which is a reciprocal teaching-' I teach you and you teach me back.'
Later on what we did was, we were asked to come up with one topic each for English and  IT in groups which can be taught through inductive teaching strategy and discuss how we were gonna teach that topic to the students. After the discussion, we were led to move around see what other groups had chosen the topics they wanted to teach the students and how their plan was. After the inspection, sir came by and commented on our group work and that is when i learned another thing, that is every thing cannot be taught through inductive teaching strategy. Inductive teaching strategy works with more of a concept teaching, that is one of drawbacks of inductive teaching strategy.

Reflection Paper 5

On Thursday, as said earlier, we continued with our presentation in which we started off with the new topic, that is the procedural steps of inductive teaching strategy in which there were two types of phase: phase 4 and phase 6. the presenter chose the phase 4 and they also gave the reason why so. In this session, i learned that phase 4 procedural steps of inductive teaching strategy is more convenient compared to phase 6 because in phase 4 procedural steps, its all about giving more examples and non- examples to students for their better understanding  about a particular concept or generalization.  Then we moved on to the role of a teacher, where the presenter told us the importance of the teacher. Lastly the last presenter talked about the advantages and the disadvantages of the inductive teaching strategy. Later on, after the presentation, what i really understood from the above topics is that in inductive teaching strategy, more or less the teacher gives examples about a particular topic and then the rest of work is given to the students. Students themselves have to explore and discovery about that topic whereas the teacher sometimes guides the students, sometimes don't.    

Reflection Paper 4

On Wednesday, what we did was very interesting and had a great fun. In this session, we were divided into new groups called as expert groups in which we were given a topic each and had to prepare for the presentation. We had a great time discussing about the topics which were given to us that is the procedural steps of inductive teaching strategy, by the way this session was all about Inductive Teaching Strategy. Later on after the discussion, we wen back to our Home group and then presented the topics turn by turn. The method here used was the Jigsaw Strategy of teaching. Our friends started to present their topic beginning with the concept of inductive teaching. what i learned from my friends was that Inductive teaching strategy is an inquiry or discovery based learning whereby the tutor will present only the specific data or information to the learners  and ask them to explore and generalize own their own understanding and get into the conclusion, but later on we knew the actual concept of inductive teaching strategy and it was actually about the concept going from known to unknown, concrete to abstract and simple to complex. Inductive Teaching Strategy was all of the above. Then later on we moved on to the purpose of inductive teaching strategy, in which we learned about the different purposes of inductive teaching strategy. We couldn't complete our presentation during that particular period so we decided that we will continue the presentation in the next class.  

The characteristics of an effective TEACHER

In my own point of view, i think a teacher should have a very good classroom managemenet skill and have positive expectations for student success because if you do, it will greatly influence their achievement in your class and in their lives. A teacher should always treat students as though they already are what they can be, and you help them to be capable of becoming what they will be. A teacher should make the students learn from eachother because learning is most effective when it takes place in a supportive community of learners. The greater the time students work together and the greater the responsibility students take for their work, the greater will be the learning. A teacher should always cooperate with students instead of competing with them.

The 2 differences between Teaching Strategy, Teaching Method and Teaching Skill with relevent examples

Teaching Strategy:
1. It is plan of action.
2. The importance of teaching method is to make it easier to implement a variety of teaching methods and tehniques. 

For example; before you even enter your classoom, you have already decided what you are gonna teach the students for the day and at the end of session or class what the students will be able to learn.  


Teaching  Method:
1. It is the way of doing.
2. The importance of teaching method is motivating and   encouraging students to learn. 

For example; you are teaching your students about noun; you ask them the meaning of noun but everyone is hesitating to speak up, then one student murmers and you hear him and ask him to tell it to the whole class with lots and lots of encouragements. when he does, you then ask the whole class to give him a round of applause. that is also one way of teaching method.


Teaching Skill:
1. It is the personal skill which we have in ourselves.
2. The importance of teaching skill is that if you dont have a skill to teach then  you wont be able to teach the students.

For example; if you want to teach your students about how to draw an apple, but you dont know how to draw, then the students will also wont be able to draw that apple.