General Methods of Teaching (EDU301)

Assignment No. 3 (Spring 2018)

Total Marks: 20
(Lesson No. 28-36)

Instructions:
 Late assignment will not be accepted.
 If the file is corrupt or problematic, it will be awarded zero.
 Plagiarism will never be tolerated. Plagiarism occurs when a student uses work
done by someone else as if it was his or her own; however, taking the ideas from
different sources and expressing them in your own words will be encouraged.
 No assignment will be accepted via e-mail.
 The file should be in Word document form, the font color should be preferably
black and font size should be 12 Times New Roman.

Question No. 1 (10 Marks)

Define inquiry and its types and also state two differences between them.

1. Inquiry (2 marks)
2. Guided Inquiry (2 marks)
3. Unguided Inquiry 2 marks)

INQUIRY:
Inquiry is a dynamic process of being open to wonder and puzzlement and coming to know
and understand the world. As such, it is a stance that pervades all aspects of life and is
essential to the way in which knowledge is created.
Difference between them:
Guided Inquiry(2 marks)* Unguided Inquiry(2 marks)*
**1 mark for each difference **1 mark for each difference

1. Guided Inquiry generates 1. in unguided inquiry the students

information that is more specific
or granular than the information
found in the Quick Facts
document libraries.
2. is defined as a carefully planned
,closely supervised, targeted
intervention of an instructional
team of school librarians or
teachers to guide student through
curriculum based inquiry units.
are free to use whichever
resources they want to use in
order to research the area in
question.
2. in unguided inquiry students
address a problem or issue
through firsthand experience with
material and information services.

Rubric
2+2+2=6 marks are for the explanation of inquiry, guided and unguided inquiry and 4 marks
for stating the difference between them.
Question No. 2 (10 Marks)
Select any two cooperative learning strategies and write how will you applythese in
classroom? Follow the rubric given below to attempt the question.

Rubric:
Students’ answer must be comprised of the following
1. Define cooperative learning (2 Marks)
Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims
to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

Two Cooperative learning strategies (4*2= 8 marks)

1. Focused Listing :

If you’re looking for a new brainstorming strategy then you’re going to love this one. The
focused listing strategy is designed for students to generate words to define or describe
something. For example, you would give the students a main topic, then ask them to create a
list of words or phrases that describe that topic. From there, you can put students into small
groups to discuss their lists or you can first put them into groups to generate the lists. Once
the lists are completed, you can use the list to help facilitate a small group or whole-group
discussion. according to me ,if you are using the focused listing as a gateway to your lesson,
then you can choose one list that all students agree upon and use that.

2. Forced Debate:

This strategy requires students to use their communication skills to work within a group.
Here’s how it works: The teacher writes a proposition on the front board, such as “Should
there be a vending machine in the school cafeteria?” then the students who agree move to one
side of the classroom and the students who disagree move to other side. Once students are on
one side of the classroom, that is now their group. The teacher then forces them to debate the
opposing side that they have chosen. according to me this strategy really utilizes students’
critical thinking skills and forces them to really think about the question as a whole in order
to argue for the opposing side rather than what they really feel about the question.