SELECTING LEARNING

ACTIVITIES
Special Subjects Area
High School Department Maria Carmela R. Labindao
Definitions
Learning opportunities, learning activities,
learning experiences
 Activities designed to acquire the designated

content and achieve the stated objectives

(Print, 1993)
 Activities that provide opportunities for

students to reach the specified objectives

(Tyler, 1949)
 Tasks designed to develop knowledge,

understanding, and skills in the content goals

(Tomlinson, et al., 2002)
Definitions
Teaching-learning strategies or methods
 Techniques, procedures, manipulations, and
facilitations of content and learning
environments (Wiles & Bondi, 1993)

 Methods or pedagogy; strategy or technique,

selected purposefully, to instruct or connect
students with the content (Tomlinson, et al.,
2002)
 Principal Groupings of Teaching-
Learning Strategies (Print, 1993)
 Expository (Lecture)
 Interactive teaching (panel discussion)

 Small group teaching (cooperative

learning)
 Inquiry teaching (practical

experimentation)
 Individualization (independent study)

 Models of Reality (simulations; role-

playing)
Styles of Teaching (Oliva,
1992)

 Task - oriented
 Cooperative planner
 Child - centered
 Subject - centered
 Learning - centered
 Emotionally Exciting
 Teaching-learning Strategies
Continuum (Print, 1993)

Low reality High Reality

High Teacher Participation Low Teacher Participation
Low Learner Involvement High Learner Involvement

Expository Interactive Small Individualization Inquiry Models Reality

Teaching Groups of
Reality
Descending Hierarchal Model for
Selection of Learning Activities
OBJECTIVES

LEARNERS

RESOURCES

CONSTRAINTS
Hilda Taba, 1962
“It is indeed evident that the criteria in
selecting learning activities need to be applied
as a collective set of screens through which to
sift the possibilities in order to assure that
only experiences that are valid in the light of
all pertinent considerations, find their way into
the curriculum”.
 Thank you
for listening!