Professional Experience and Personal Reflections by Lisa Bowstead, Founder What is a "traditional" academic approach? March 18, 2013 Some schools subscribe to what is called a "traditional" academic approach. In teacher-speak, we call it "chalk-and-talk."
This "traditional" approach was perfectly adequate for those of us who are over a certain age, as it was for our parents, and theirs before them.
It can be argued that (when done right) the student-guided approach is more effective than the traditional approach for a greater number of students. The student-guided approach recognizes that different students learn in different ways (visual, verbal, auditory, tactile, interactive, etc) and then capitalizes on the idea that students learn better when they are active participants in the process. This teaching approach, however, is much more difficult to implement than traditional, and requires teachers to follow and measure each student's development qualitatively (which is not easily tracked and measured). |