Teaching Methods and Strategies Used by the Public Elementary School Teachers and their Implications to Instructional Supervision

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The method of teaching refers to the regular ways or orderly procedures employed by the teachers in guiding the students in order to accomplish the aims of the learning situation.

METHODS

The significance on relationship between teaching methods and strategies to the academic performance of the elementary pupils, asserts that within the new learning paradigm the schools have entered, learning must be conceived as a meaning-construction process. In order to achieve such significant learning, the process must, firstly, be an active one, and secondly, it must be a constructive process; in other words, the basic activities in the knowledge creation process must be oriented towards the construction of meanings for the subjects themselves.

RESULTS

Therefore, it is necessary to develop new teaching strategies providing students with the tools to build their own learning and contributing towards their integral development

DISCUSSIONS

Administrators and teachers must provide school activities that would encourage all pupils to participate and develop and enhance their logical, analytical and critical thinking skills. Teachers must seek to develop the competence of the pupils in all learning areas through utilizing appropriate teaching methodologies with clear explanation of the objectives and details of the activities