3rd e-reflection for PETA:

After I learned about ‘planning for instruction’ in 2^nd meeting, I learned ‘the models of instruction’ itself yesterday. This competency is should be owned by teacher absolutely. Beside to dodge the boredom of the students because get same learning method, it also useful to match the materials and the objective trough suitable learning method.  As we know, because each content has its own objective. For example, if the teacher just use ‘direct instruction’ in his/her class for all of discussion, there will be some purpose of learning that cannot be achieved. So, the teacher must master all of the models of instruction.

There are four types of instruction. Those are ‘direct instruction’, ‘lecture-discussion’, ‘group interaction’, and ‘guided discovery’.

Based on what I’ve learned, direct instruction is used to teach the concept and procedural skills. In this model, the teacher holds the control of the class. The teacher use much of their time to give guidance, almost along the lesson hour. During that time, usually the teacher explains or gives example to make the lesson clearer. How about the students? The students’ role here is when they got a question from the teacher, or when asked to practice something.

The result of this model instruction is the students will have automacity and transfer capability. My friend in group told me that automacity is like when a student asked about something they’ll refer to that thing. Meanwhile the automacity is the capability of the students to connect their recent understanding with other context/ case.

To guess what the meaning of this model is, I guess it from the name that is lecture and discussion. So, this model is a result of combining between lecture and discussion. Different with direct instruction which guide the students tightly, lecture-discussion model gives student chance to conclude the knowledge by their understanding.

In the beginning of the class, the teacher gives a brief lecturing to the students. The explanation is just to deliver the students to actively involve in a discussion. After that, if the students have done with the discussion, the teacher gives some questions to test their comprehension (comprehension monitoring).