Reflection no.5

Inductive Teaching Strategy:

1.concept: it is a type of strategy where students are made to self discover and move from the stage of known to unknown or from the concrete ideas to abstract. 

2.purpose: 

• motivation of students for cooperative and competitive achivement
• enhance class partipation
• independence discovery
• learning by doing
• more of student centered learning

3.procedural steps  

1. open ended phase:teacher gives example and non example of concept and let student to observe and describe
2. convergent phase:ask student to find the pattern
3. closure: student makes the definition of the concept and teacher helps them
4. application phase:student make use of the concept as and when it is required.

4.role of teacher

• provide guidance(  scaffolding)
• prompting and encouraging
• teacher cooperates and fosters cooperation in students
• less role of teacher
• design activity(independent thinking)
• generalization(lecture with demonstration)

5.merits and De-merits

1. merits:

• involves observation and inference
• make children think
• reflect on experiences
• in-cooperates all questioning techniques, prompting and probing 
• discourage wild guessing
• independent livelong learner

2 De-merits

• time consuming
• minimum content coverage
• needs verification, and some verification is done in deductive
• frustrating to different level of students
• all types of topic can't taught inductively

Q:How does inductive teaching enhance long term memory in learners?

A:since inductive teaching method is a method where the students need to learn by doing and self discover, it helps students to retain for longer period of time as it is believed that what we do our self we remember for long and understand better. hence learner's long term memory is enhanced.

Q:What is scaffolding in teaching and learning?

A:it is a guiding process where by teacher breaks down the complected questions into small ones and put to students so that students at last reach in finding the answer of the question by themselves.