Month: May 2020

The education method I chose is direct instruction. Direct instruction is a teaching model developed by Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker. The first using this model is in the middle of 1960 to help disadvantaged elementary school students. This way is like a computer process. The educator should set everything to include academic knowledge, language, tons, etc. before teaching. It likes a computer program, you type all cod to a computer and you probably get an expected result, then you run the cod and get the true result. Even if there is a deviation between the result and the expected result, the two will not be far apart.

Direct instruction is a teacher-led educational method that maximizes the effective time for learners to learn. Under this teaching model, educators better focus on academic activities. Teachers use this method to educate learners, mistakes need to be corrected, and correct should be strengthened. The specific way is to teach the educator what the learner follows. Although this method restrains the learner’s personality, imagination, and autonomy to a certain extent, the same teaching mode is very intuitive and efficient. The teaching effect immediately appears, and educators can get immediate educational feedback. In our topic, I think direct instruction is very effective because we want more people to understand COVID-19 and how to avoid infection with this virus. In this case, there is no need for autonomy and creativity. All the learners need is academic knowledge of viruses to let them understand what COVID-19 is and how to prevent it. Immediately after learning, you can use precautionary techniques. Such a situation can make full use of the advantages of direct instruction. I set 4 steps to help the educator to learn COVID-19.

STEP 1: RESEARCH BACKGROUND ABOUT COVID-19
Learners can research before educators teach them COVID-19. It makes learners have a first impression of COVID-19.

STEP 2: SHOW COVID-19
Educators can use PPT to show learners some ideas or data about COVID-19 such as prevalence rate, mortality rate, and the number of patients. And also, let them know the damage to humanity and the economy. Tell them why we need to prevent the virus.

STEP 3: FEEDBACK AND CORRECTIVES
Educator will get some feedback after showing. Using this feedback to assess each learner’s situation. Helping them to correct some bias and misconceptions.

STEP 4: REVIEW
Educators can set up a test to see how learners work after step 3. Learners can also deep impression of the virus after getting a test. To help learners to understand what is COVID-19 and how to prevent this disease.

REFERENCE:

Klahr, D., & Nigam, M. (2004). The Equivalence of Learning Paths in Early Science Instruction: Effects of Direct Instruction and Discovery Learning. Psychological Science, 15(10), 661-667. Retrieved July 2, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/40064024

IMG_1841Vince used the case of learning motorcycles to specify the characteristics and differences of cognitivism and behaviorism. Through specific steps to illustrate the different learning doctrine to help learners at various stages.

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For behaviorists, strengthening learners’ cognition and response to things gives learners a habit to correspond to their knowledge. The learner can be matched with unique behavior through explicit or implicit means. Here is an example of a chart in early childhood. The word ‘blue’ corresponds to the blue part of the icon. Through repeated learning of the learner, it becomes a kind of conditioned reflex and a habit. When you see Blue, it corresponds naturally. blue.
For the cognitive scientist, the behavior is similar to the behavioralist, but in detail, the behaviorist is more inclined to use the established teaching thinking and model to lead the learner to learn knowledge, but the cognitive scientist The feedback of learning analyzes the differences in individual learning, guides learners by helping to discover their own advantageous and appropriate learning strategies, and generates new understanding by combining past and existing information.
Constructionist is the most effective way in my opinion. Everyone ’s different understanding of the same thing stems from his own experience and social experience. Older people generally have more social experience than younger ones. Younger age is more comprehensive and richer. Even for people of the same age, gender differences can affect understanding. Therefore, this method of teaching students according to their aptitude can make everyone have a different understanding and application of knowledge. This understanding and application are generated through their own cognition. Compared with the first two, I personally think that this educational model is more scientific and reasonable.
In a high school teacher planning a course on climate change, the behaviorist will directly teach the knowledge, the cognitive scientist will choose the appropriate learning method through the learner’s understanding of the weather changes, and the constructionist will learn The individual teaches the understanding of climate change in his own life and gives a scientific explanation based on the actual situation.
I personally think that I am the third school of constructivists.