Benefit of different teaching strategies

Teaching is not a cup of tea as said by expertise, as it demand couple of strategies to inspire the learners and to make teaching lively and meaningful. Learners in the school cannot be fitted by same spoon/tool every day. It needs to be adjusting as per the requirements and development of the world.  As to mention about strategies that I am applying in present situation, normally I go for variety of strategies and skills as per the teaching subjects, for an example, in teaching of science inductive strategy suit more and in mathematics deductive. I am also using cooperative learning as well as constructivist strategies too.My intention of using different kinds of strategies and skills in daily teaching is to teach learners productively, to make teaching lesson more interactive, to impart subject contents meaningfully and to achieve purpose of teaching in the school. Cooperative learning strategy is where our children are totally involves in group/peer discussions pertaining to topic and here subject teacher just facilitate, monitor and evaluate the progress of the activities. This strategy benefits child with retention ability, discover responses to the question through exploration, improve leadership skill and interaction skill. It foster interpersonal relationship, encourages alternative assessment techniques, improve attendance and less distractive. It also stimulates critical thinking and helps learners clarify ideas through discussion and debate. The other beneficial strategy is constructivist approach whereby children learn through building their ideas and it has couple of benefits to the learners; Children learn more, and enjoy learning more when they are actively involved, rather than passive listeners. Constructivist learning is transferable. In constructivist classrooms, students create organizing principles that they can take with them to other learning settings. Constructivism gives students ownership of what they learn, since learning is based on students' questions and explorations, and often the students have a hand in designing the assessments as well.
    The students are also more likely to retain and transfer the new knowledge to real life. Constructivism promotes social and communication skills by creating a classroom environment that emphasizes collaboration and exchange of ideas. Students learn how to articulate their ideas clearly as well as to collaborate on tasks effectively by sharing in group projects. Students, therefore their exchange ideas and so learns to "negotiate" with others and to evaluate their contributions in a socially acceptable manner. This is essential to success in the real world, since they will always be exposed to a variety of experiences in which they will have to cooperate and navigate among the ideas of others.There are clear differences between the inductive approach and deductive approach. Inductive tends to be more efficient in the long run, but deductive is less time consuming. We might try and compare both of these approaches at certain points in our teaching to see which is more effective for our students. I found that inductive approach makes students active and learns effectively where as in deductive students tend be passive listeners and less effort from them.     

                Peer sharing                                                     Children in cooperative learning

By implementing of various strategies in my daily teaching, children become active participants, interacting effectively and even their performance in my teaching subjects was good in mid-term examination.The disadvantages; it affect flow of lessons as we have to achieve the goal of education ministry, our curriculum is time bound as we need to cover syllabus within given time frame. Time constraint, resources and classroom size is factors that affecting effective implementation of strategies. Thanks