Activity-based teaching strategy:

concept: learner is actively engaged in a task and learners learn by doing.

principles:

•  relationship between faculty and students
• cooperation among students
• active learning techniques
• gives prompt feedback
• emphasizes time on task
• communicates high expectations
• respects diverse talents and ways of learning

kinds of learning activity:

1. absorb type: informs the learner. presentations, demonstrations, stories.
2. do type: practice, discovery, playing games.
3. connect type: link learning to life.

criteria for organizing activities: 

• relevent
• time bound
• contain meaning
• involves real world experiences
• involve skills (listening, speaking, writing)
• cognitive progress
• particular outcome

procedural steps:

• planning
• instructions
• monitoring
• evaluating

role of the teacher:

• plan
• instruct
• faciitating
• debriefing
• clarifying learners doubts

we looked on demonstration strategy and the way i understood is that it is the way of teaching where teacher demonstrates at first and after that the teacher does it along with the students.

We have been told to read the material sir has provided for us. It was about the project strategy of teaching and the way sir made us to sit in the class with the questions thrown..it was really a interactive class.

“A project is any activity, individual or group, involving the investigation and solution of problems, planned and carried out to conclusion under the guidance of the teacher.”

-Callahan & Clark.

Principles of Project Strategy/method

• principle of utility
• principle of readiness
•  principle of learning by doing
• principle of freedom at work
• principle of socialization                

types of project work:

1. produce type
2. consumer type
3. investigation type  
4. drill type