Seven Reflection Paper

Deductive Teaching Strategy:

Concept: deductive teaching strategy is the strategy in which principles or generalization are presented initially, followed by application or testing of these principles. It is also basically leading the students from unknown to known, abstract to concrete, or complex to simple.

Purpose:

1. is a teacher centered approach where students are taken as blank slates.
2. this strategy creates dependency in students limiting their thinking ability.
3. this strategy is basically used to help students with learning disability to enhance their learning. 

Phases:

1.  Presentation of abstraction: Firstly the teacher presents all the concepts of the generalization or principles.
2. Teacher illustrates with examples.
3. Students give examples of concepts and apply them in new situations.
4. Students restate the concept or definition that they had learned.

Merits:

1. less time consuming.
2. different from rote learning as it is a strategy where logical interlinking of the elements is encouraged.
3. most of the school materials/curriculum  can be easily taught through deductive strategy.
4. this method involves all levels of questions.

Demerits:

1. students are not actively involved in the beginning of the lesson.
2. since it is a teacher centered approach, it may not be challenging for the brighter students.

Role of Teacher:

1. provide guidance and scaffolding.
2. teacher need to plan and prepare detail information including materials.
3. since it is a teacher centered approach, most of the work is done by teacher.