definition of discovery teaching approach?
The discovery method is a teaching technique that encourages students to take a more active role in their learning process by answering a series of questions or solving problems designed to introduce a general concept. In this teaching approach, the instructor guides the student’s thought process by posing a series of questions whose responses would lead to the understanding of a concept before it is explicitly stated. “Children act as detectives as they solve concept-attainment activities in stimulating learning environments. In doing so, they place a newly introduced object in a category that they have previously discovered or identified.” This teaching method is believed to increase retention of material because the student organizes the new information and integrates it with information that has already been stored.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:42 am
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:17 am
The discovery teaching approach is when the teacher creates an environment for the children with carefully choosen items and then the children discover things for themselves.
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:51 am
The discovery method is a teaching technique that encourages students to take a more active role in their learning process by answering a series of questions or solving problems designed to introduce a general concept. In this teaching approach, the instructor guides the student’s thought process by posing a series of questions whose responses would lead to the understanding of a concept before it is explicitly stated. “Children act as detectives as they solve concept-attainment activities in stimulating learning environments. In doing so, they place a newly introduced object in a category that they have previously discovered or identified.” This teaching method is believed to increase retention of material because the student organizes the new information and integrates it with information that has already been stored.
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http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Discovery_method
http://www.csd.uwa.edu.au/altmodes/to_delivery/discovery_learning.html
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/discoverylearn/