You are the new director of an early childhood program which is pursuing NAEYC accreditation

You are the new director of an early childhood program which is pursuing NAEYC accreditation

You are the new director of an early childhood program which is pursuing NAEYC accreditation. Currently, your staff members rely heavily on direct, whole-group instruction to teach children new concepts.  Your job is to encourage teachers to create more child-centered, developmentally appropriate classroom environments by demonstrating the benefits of child-centered learning.

In your post you will first describe a traditional, direct instruction activity and its learning outcome (e.g., students will read a book about plants and name the parts of a plant). Then describe how teachers could meet the same outcome using a child-directed strategy. These strategies include exploratory play, guided discovery, problem solving, and discussions

 

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Direct instruction is an approach of teaching which is nowadays considered old-dated. The teaching implied are teacher-directed where it is the teachers who give instructions (Hollingsworth, J., & Ybarra, S. 2009, pg. 3). These teachings are always directed to a small group thus it is not individual teaching. Direct instruction is closely related to discovery learning………………………………….

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