12 June, 2020

Mahwish Abbas
Sp17-bpy-018
Case Study: Round Robin
Q1: What purposes this activity serve? What instructional objectives does Mr. Lewis
apparently have for his students?
Purposes served by the activity:
i. Students learn more from classroom assessment, as they are the part of that
assessment and they have to answer the questions.
ii. Students will maintain better learning habit as they will get the lectures more
vigilantly when they knew that they have to answer the questions from the lecture
content.
iii. This activity engaging all the students in the activity following the rule of ‘no
child left behind’
iv. From competition, the wish to excel is promoted, which leads to a strong effort by
every one
v. Students have a chance to test their knowledge through experience.
Instructional Objectives
Direct instructions method is used in the activity as it continually and actively engage
student in learning. The teacher using direct instruction because he wants to promote Higher
degree of teacher-student interaction and this activity involves small, and carefully sequenced
steps (strike 1 at one wrong or absense of response and then 2 and then 3), fast pacing, and a
great deal of teacher-student interaction. The direct instructions give opportunities to the students
to practice new skills, high student interest, self-efficacy for subject matter in questions etc. The
teacher wants to get review of previously learnt material (ancient agypt). Teacher also wants to
get an assessment of students progress.
Q2: Which teacher’s technique do you prefer and why?
Both types of questioning are on their own place, but I prefer the teaching technique of
Lower-level Questions in which the teacher ask the students to retrieve information they have
presumably already learned. Because such questions have several benefits:
i. Check prior knowledge and misconceptions
ii. Keep students attentive during class
iii. Improvement techniques to keep check on progress
iv. Enable students to monitor their understanding
v. Encourage students to recall previous learning

I am not in the favor of higher level questioning though they also have benefits as well,
because these questions require student to go beyond what they have learnt and I think every
student haven’t the capacity to go beyond whatever they have learnt while lower level
questioning provide a chance to average, below average or above average students, to participate
and to response in the questioning session.