TCL vs. SCL

Teacher-centered learning (TCL):

  • Deductive
  • Direct instruction

Student-centered learning (SCL):

  • Inductive
  • Indirect instruction

Teaching methods:

1) Exposition: lecture, worked-showing/ telling, interactive lecture, flipped classroom, and socratic questioning

2) Inquisition: discussion-based, scenario-based, and case-based

3) Generation: collaborative-based, inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based

Linkages of Constructivism Theory, Teaching Model and Method

(B)

Theory:

Social Constructivism:

  • knowledge is actively constructed
  • learning is about:
    1. a search for meaning by the learner
    2. contextualized
    3. an inherently social activity
    4. dialogic and recursive
    5. the responsibility of the learner

Model:

Social family:

  • working together within a social context
  • cooperative relationship
  • sharpen cognition through interaction
  • learn how to work as member of a team

Method:

  • Building learning communities,
  • Developing cooperative and collaborative relationships:
  1. partners in learning (pair-shared)
  2. group investigation model
  3. roleplaying
  4. jurisprudential inquiry learning

Linkages of Cognitivism Theory , Teaching Model and Method

(A)

Theory:

Cognitivism (process information through attention, memory, thinking, and other cognitive process).

Teaching Model:

Information-processing family

  • acquiring and organizing information,
  • identifying problems,
  • formulating hypotheses,
  • learning concepts,
  • generating solutions,
  • fostering creativity.

Method/ Approach:

  • Help students learn how to construct knowledge:

(a) inductive thinking model

(b) concept attainment model

(c) the picture-word inductive model

(d) inquiry training model

(e) memory model

(f) the synectics model

(g) advance organiser

Teacher-centered learning (TCL) or Student-centered learning (SCL)?

  • acquiring and process information:

(a) inquiry-oriented project

(b) opportunities for the testing of hypotheses

(c) curiosity encouraged

(d) staged scaffolding