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Pe Teaching Styles
Pe Teaching Styles
Teacher Centered:
Command: Teacher makes all the decision; students respond immediately to the
stimulus or model provided by the teacher.
Practice: Teacher demonstrates the task and sets up the opportunity for learners to
practice and develop skills at their own pace.
Reciprocal: Students work in pairs and take turns observing and giving feedback to one
another using the provided criteria from the teacher.
Self-Check: Similar to reciprocal, however, students work on their own.
Inclusion Style: Teacher plans and sets out a variety of tasks which has different levels of
difficulty and students decide which task they will do.
Student Centered:
Guided Discovery: Teacher plans a series of questions and tasks that direct students
towards discovering a pre-determined answer.
Convergent Discovery: Teacher sets or frames a question which has numerous solutions.
Divergent Production: Teacher plans and sets a question or challenge for the students
which has numerous outcomes. Once problem has been solved the solution should pose
another problem to be solved.
Learner Designed: Teacher decides on an area of focus which the student has to develop
by devising their own questions.
Learner Initiated: Students decide on the initial area of focus and designs their own
learning program.
Self-Teach: Students take full responsibility for their own development and learning
process.