Discuss examples of problematic instruction from your notes

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Problem

The teacher education video below reflects standardized approaches to elementary and early years instruction in the US. It features examples of didactic (explanatory) instruction that are still common in the US, and are often uncritically reproduced in popular culture and online educational resources. The purpose of viewing and reflecting on this particular video is to be able to identify (i.e., 'detect') examples of didactic instruction that are often embedded in many other kinds of science education resources (including amateur 'educational' tutorials) to critically consider how these notions of 'teaching' and 'learning' differ from those advanced in this course (i.e., empowering, constructivist, inquiry-focused, open-ended, etc). You're not 'judging' these teachers, who very likely do not agree with the standardized approaches they are required to use, but considering the limitations of these approaches. In fact, one of the big problems with standardized education is that it also de-skills teachers, limiting their freedom, autonomy to make their own professional judgements about the curriculum, pedagogy, or instruction that is best suited to individual learners. Instead, they are required, by their school districts, to 'teach to the test.'

Science Curriculum for Early Childhood Education

YouTube Video: "Science Curriculum for Early Childhood Education".

As you view the video, you should be reflecting on perspectives presented in this module (and the last). Based on the examples featured in this module, you should be able to (easily) spot 'repeat after me' type examples of "didactic" instruction and also instances where the child is either passively positioned as an audience to the teacher's explanations, or else explicitly corrected for failing to use a 'precise' term. There are at least three, very striking, interactions between teachers and children that are especially problematic. Can you spot them? Again, you're not 'judging' these educators but making note of the methods of instruction that they are 'performing' in this video. Make note of these examples in the activity notebook.

Task

Discuss, in your own words, examples of problematic/didactic instruction from your notes about the video you analyzed, and why they are unsuited to the early years.

Reference no: EM133610105

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