Approaches to Teaching!

Every teacher has his or her own acquired style of teaching. There are different categories that teaching approach characteristics are classified into. The first of the teaching approaches is the executive approach. This approach is when the teacher uses a more set way of teaching. There is a set curriculum with set timeframes of when to switch topics and how long lecture and work portions of the class period are. It is an approach that transfers knowledge from teacher to student with specific methods. It is an approach that would work in math classrooms. The second approach is the facilitator approach. This approach is when the teacher tries to connect the class curriculum to the students’ personal life experiences. This helps the students to have a better understanding of what they are learning and of them. The third approach is the liberationist approach. This in an approach where the teacher takes the students’ already acquired knowledge and lets the students contribute to the classroom learning. It helps the students show their knowledge and helps them build upon their prior knowledge. Different teachers can modify these three different approaches in order to fit for their specific classroom, subject and students. Our textbook, Approaches to Teaching (Fenstermacher & Soltis), gives up examples of these three approaches in the first chapter. It gives us three situations to analyze. I think that a teacher may use a combination of all of these approaches depending upon what types of lessons they are teaching. Every teacher has to find their own niche in teaching, what works best with their group of students to help them learn.