21/3/2012

In our today's class, we have learned about 'Deductive Teaching Strategy'. Deductive teaching strategy is just the opposite to Inductive teaching strategy. Deductive teaching strategy is the strategy that leads the students from unknown to known, abstract to concrete or complex to simple. Sir gave us some notes about:
Purposes of deductive teaching strategy
It is a teacher centered approach.

1. It creates dependency in students limiting their thinking ability.
2. It is basically used to help students with learning disability to enhance their learning.

Phases of deductive teaching strategy
Presentation of abstraction.

1. Teacher illustrates it with examples.
2. Student give examples of concepts and apply them in new situations.
3. Student restate the concept or definition that they have learned.
   

Advantages of deductive strategy

1. It is less time consuming.
2. It is different from role learning as it is a strategy where logical interlinking of the elements is encouraged.
3. Most of the school materials/curriculum can be easily taught through deductive strategy.
4. This method involves all levels of questions.

Disadvantages of deductive strategy

1. Students are not actively involved in the beginning of the lesson.
2. Since it is a teacher centered approach, it may not be challenging for the brighter students.