Different approaches and

Methods
Teaching Approach, Strategy, Method and
Technique
 Teaching Approach- is a set of principles,
beliefs or ideas about the nature of learning which
is translated into the classroom.
 Teaching Strategy- is along term plan of action
designed to achieve a particular goal. Strategy
applies to many disparate fields such as military
strategy, economic strategy, and the like.
 Teaching Method- is a systematic way of doing
something. It implies an orderly logical
arrangement of steps.
 Teaching Technique- is a well-defined
procedure used to accomplish a specific
activity
or task. It is a teacher's particular style or trick
used to accomplish an immediate objective.
More than one technique may be available for
accomplishing a specific activity or task.
Techniques are consistent with a given
approach, strategy and method.
The relationship among the three is shown
below:
 The relationship among the three is shown
below:
 Approach strategy Method Technique
 An approach gives rise to a strategy which use more
than one method of teaching. One teaching method
may be employed differently by two different teachers
whose teaching style may lead to the use of different
techniques. Technique has something to do with
teacher’s personal style of teaching.
 Examples of Teaching Approach

Teacher -centered Learner -centered

Subject matter- centered Learner- centered

Teacher-dominated Interactive

“banking” approach Constructivist

Disciplinal Integrated

Individualistic Collaborative

Indirect, Guided Direct

 The teacher Approach

 The teacher is perceived to be the only reliable

source of information in contrast to the learner
centered approach which is premised on the belief
that the learner is also an important resource
because he/she too knows something and is
therefore capable of sharing something.
 Subject matter centered

 Subject matter gains primacy over that of the

learner. By all means teacher finishes teaching
subject matter scheduled even if learners have not
learned it.
 Teacher dominated

 Only the teacher’s voice is heard. He/she is the sole

dispenser of information.
 Interactive

 Will have more student talk and less teacher talk.

Students are given the opportunity to interact with
teacher and with other student.
 Contructivist Approach

 Students are expected to construct knowledge and

meaning out of what they are taught by connecting
them to prior experience.
 Banking approach
 Teacher deposit knowledge into the ‘’empty’’ mind of
students for students to commit memory. The
students are perceived to be “empty receptacles’’
waiting to be filled. These facts that are given untill
at the end of the term everything is withdrawn in the
final examinations thus students are once more
empty ready to be filled in the next school year.
 Integrated

 Makes the teacher connects what he/she teaches to

the other lessons of the same subject
(intradisciplinary) or connects his/her with other
subjects thus making his/her approach
interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary.
 The use of the disciplinal approach limits the
teacher discussing his/her lessons within the
boundary of his/her subject.
 Collaborative approach

 Will welcome group work, team work, partnership,

group discussion while an individualistic approach
will want individual students working by
themselves.
 Direct teaching Approach

 The teacher directly tells shows or demonstrates

what is to be taught while in the guided approach,
teacher guides the learner to discover things for
himself/herself.
 Guided approach

 the teacher facilitates the learning process by

allowing the learner to be engaged in the learning
process with his/her guidance.