Paolo Freire

Essay: Referring to the readings of the current semester compare and contrast the various teaching methods implemented in those readings. After you have finished comparing, choose the one you feel is the most effective and give reasons to support why your choice is the best one. This essay should contain quotes as well as procedures, ideas and methods used in the teaching method you have chosen.

Teaching Methods

There are many various methods to the way people are taught and the way they learn. This in turn leads to the direct creation of new and innovative teaching methods to arise, methods that may be directed towards higher learning, and of course those that are made for learning the basics. When teaching at a lower level most would not argue that the banking concept is the most suitable method and that the problem posing system is more effective when used in higher level classes. Still, what argument is there to say that there should be separate methods to teaching, and if there are why are they only for certain situations? Should we always be held to the same standards and methods of teaching, or better yet, of learning?

There has been a long standing belief that in a teacher-student relationship it is only the student that comes out changed and the teacher is there only as a sort of catalyst. The teacher has nothing to learn from the student and the student is left to do nothing more than that which is assigned to him or listen attentively to the lectures being "taught" to him. Is the student really changed? After the test has been taken does the student really take anything away from the experience other than the grade received for spitting back the information that has been thrown at him or her? It can be argued whether or no the student does, still life experiences can be the answers when speaking in your own terms. Have you ever had a teacher such as the one described, one that lectures and hands out exams never straying from his planned schedule? If so have you come out with anything more than a grade when you left their class, is there any new thought or idea that you left with?

Now think of other classes that you may of have had, ones