This document discusses modern teaching methodologies used in early childhood classrooms. It explores a variety of active learning techniques like discussions, group work, storytelling and role playing that encourage student participation and holistic development. Traditional lecturing is compared to these modern methods, which aim to make lessons more engaging and memorable by directly involving students in the learning process. The impact of these student-centered approaches on children's physical, social-emotional and cognitive growth is also addressed.

1. Teaching
Methodologies in
Early Years
Classrooms
Ms. Neelofer Mehdi
Advance Diploma in Human Development
(Early Child Development)

2. Objectives
• To explore modern teaching methods used in
early years classrooms
• To recognize the impacts of teaching methods
on child’s holistic development
• To promote modern teaching and learning
practices in challenging environment

3. Write
your challenges……

4. Activity

5. Lets Reflect

6. Now think!!!
• What do you expect from your
teaching?
• As a student who was your favorite
teacher and why?
• Why we are interested in this
topic?

7. Traditional Approach
Out come of
Traditional
Teaching

8. I am Teaching are you Learning?????

9. I
How come the more I talk the less my
students learn?

10. How traditional teaching is different
from modern teaching methods?

11. Advantages of Lecturing
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Spark interest
Provide unavailable information
Convey large amounts of information
Reach large audiences
Model ways of thinking
Maintain control
Protect students
Help auditory learners
Source: Sutherland and Bonwell

12. Disadvantages of Lecturing
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Passive students
Inadequate feedback
Flagging attention
Poor retention
Burden on lecturer
Non-auditory learners
Source: Sutherland and Bonwell

13. Students Tune Out
Source: Pollio

14. Lectures Assume Homogeneity

15. Fundamentals of Active learning
1. Learning is an active process.
2. Different people learn in different ways.
3. We often don’t know what we think until we
try to say it or write it.
4. Just because you’ve said it doesn’t mean
they’ve learned it.

16. Tell me and I forget,
Show me and I remember,
Involve me and I understand.

17. Make lesson alive in Classroom
Remember:
A learner learns in response to needs. Need relate to
the situation in which they live therefore, Education
should be life related.

18. Therefore:
The relationship between [students']
active involvement and effective learning
is very strong

20. Obama bends over so the son of WhiteHouse
staff member can pat his head during a family
visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009. The
youngster wanted to see if the President's
haircut felt like his own.

21. Howard Gardner’s Multiple
Intelligences
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Linguistic intelligence
Logical/Mathematical intelligence
Visual/Spatial intelligence
Musical intelligence
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence
Interpersonal intelligence
Intrapersonal intelligence
Naturalist intelligence

22. Write
• How can you over come those challenges?

23. Lets explore some modern teaching methods
that ensure child’s active involvement

24. Teaching Methodologies cont..
Lectures - Guest Speaker
Discussions (Two way interaction
through questioning skills)
Small Group discussions
Large group presentations by students
Slide shows
Library research
Posters
Video / Movies
Brain Storming

25. Teaching Methodologies
Survey
Role Playing/Drama
Drawing/put ideas into pictures
Puppet show
Narration (Story)
Pictorial presentation of Story
Cartoon (pictorial)
cont..

26. Teaching Methodologies cont..
Imagination
Flash cards
Singing/poems
Poetry writing
Newspapers/magazines/reading material
Story writing
Book reviews
Model Making

27. Teaching Methodologies
Flow Charts
Map Making
Puzzles
Art work
Play
Time Lines
Sequencing the stories
Picture stories
Clues Forming a Story

28. Storying
• Read and act out the stories:
1. Moral stories, Prophet’s Stories, Fairy
tales,Fables.
• When can we use story?
• Why tell stories?
• What can children learn from story?

29. Asking Questions
• Why do we ask questions?
• examples of questions for the story
– Observation questions
– Interpretation questions
– Application questions
• When can you ask these questions?

30. Understanding the Story
• How would you introduce the story?
• What questions do we ask after a starter or
story?
– Provoke thinking
– Observation questions: What did you See?
– Interpretation questions: What is Happening?
Why?
– Application questions: Does this happen in Our
place? What should we Do about it?

31. Involving the Children
• How can you involve the children in the story?
– They can name the characters or change the
animals.
– They can act out the story.
– Ask them questions during the story, such as,
“What should he have done instead?”
– Have them give another ending to the story.
– Ask them to relate the story to their own lives.

32. • Balloon Activity

33. Impact of modern teaching methods
on Child’s Holistic Development
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Physical Development
Linguistic Development
Social –Emotional Development
Cognitive Development

35. Group work is a very effective
teaching method
•Jigsaw
•Cooperative learning helps learner’s to acquire social
skills.
•Think-pair-share
Particularly dealing with differences
Safe Time and Resources
Develop Teamwork
Develops Communication skills
Improve decision making and problem
solving skills

36. Key Learning from Group Activities
• Use teaching method which involves more
senses
• Focused on holistic development of learners
• Provide more opportunities to work in pair
and groups

37. Things to remember!!!!
• Go beyond the curriculum
• Integrate the concept with student’s daily life.
• Involve maximum opportunities student to
participate in teaching and learning process.

38. Can you
• promote modern teaching methods in your
own settings?
• How?

39. No single teaching method or
approach will be successful
with all children.
Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998;
IRA & NAEYC position statement, 1998

40. Good teaching should be the centre
piece of efforts to improve
developmental
outcomes
for
children.