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Teacher Centered
(lectured)
Teacher tells student
what they need to know.
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Student Centered
(teaming)
Students discover what
they need to know using
inquiry and the help of
their classmates and
teacher.
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Terminology Stressed
Specific facts in the
subject drive the
instruction
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Meaning Stressed
Comprehension of the
information drives the
instruction
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Teaching Aid Utilization
Instruction aided by text
readings, overheads, and
demonstrations
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Teaching Aid Utilization
Instruction aided by
challenging questions,
scenarios, and inquiry
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Memorization Encouraged
Practice, drill,and rote
learning of facts and
definitions
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Understanding Encouraged
Appreciation of tenor
and implication of
relationships is
encouraged.
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Competitive Class
Atmosphere
Student assessment
driven by standard
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Cooperative Class
Atmosphere
Student assessment
driven by team initiatives
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Individualistic Learning
Students learn separately
when doing class work
and assignments
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Peer Assisted Learning
Students learn from
each other when doing
class work and
assignments
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Assignments "cook-book"
in Nature
Students follow specific
directions to perform
and complete the
assignments
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Assignments Inquiry
in Nature
Students develop a plan
that they will do to
complete the assignments
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Lab Grouped but still
Individual
Students clustered in
groups but work
independently on the lab
assignment.
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Labs Teamed in Spirit of
Peer Assistance
Students support and
help each other equally
to complete the
assignments.
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Assignments Single or
Short Answers
Solitary solutions from
programmed questions
stressed
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Assignments Open Ended
and at a Higher Thinking
Level
Descriptive assessing
from unrestrictive
questions and higher
thinking level answers
stressed.
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Assignments of
Achievement
Based primarily on
factual content tests at
the end of a unit or
chapter
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Assignments of
Achievement
Continuously assessing
student understanding
through challenges and
inquiry.
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Impersonal Faculty to
Student Relationship
Little or no attempt by
teacher to interact with
students in the class.
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Personal Faculty to
Student Relationship
Teacher-student
interactions sought and
encouraged by the
instructor.
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