Frontal instruction

Class teaching is a teaching concept, a didactic model as well as a social form, which starts from the premise that it is the teacher's job to teach students something and derives rules for the most effective design of classroom instruction. Since the 1960s, the term class teaching is displaced in the context of education reforms by the term frontal teaching.

Form of teaching

The term frontal teaching work form or method of the teacher lecture or questioning - developing teaching is often associated, although it initially is a social form in classroom teaching. Thus, the term often comes in for criticism - which today most favored progressive teaching methods are the forms of work diametrically opposed and are to be replaced in principle by them. Frontal lessons can also be applied intensively in alternative methods. As a social form in the traditional sense should and class lessons but continue to be used in many forms of teaching. To date, frontal teaching in teacher education is almost a dirty word; Trainee teachers are often given the impression that all other social forms are superior per se.

More social forms are group work, pair work and individual work. In classroom teaching is, unlike the other social forms, the study group is not divided; all are busy in the ideal case with the same task; any contribution claimed the attention of all. The teacher is and acts inspecting, controlling, conducting or lecturing with. In the method of learning by teaching ( LdL ) the control of the teaching is in phases or continuously transmitted to students.

Forms of class instruction

Class teaching can take place in very different forms of work. By far the most common teacher talk, questioning - developing lessons, class discussions are used, but also demonstration experiments, mental arithmetic exercises, games and many other teaching methods are forms of class lessons.

Frontal teaching

The term frontal teaching is used differently: either synonymous with class lessons or restricted to certain types of work, most teachers lecture and questioning - developing lessons. Wiechmann ( 2000) can trace frontal teaching on an essay title by Petersen and Petersen ( 1954) the origin of the word; since the 1960s the term was naturally used mostly in pejorative intention to lift the favored group work it. Although the frontal teaching the teaching style most commonly used in everyday school life, he is a stepchild of scientific didactics.

Specific concepts of class instruction

  • Direct instruction, which has imported Jochen Grell from America (right).
  • The genetically - examples - Socratic teaching of Martin Wagenschein. With this teaching method tried Martin Wagenschein of the school as " execution machine " to " surface passing through the knowledge catalog" come off in the typical knowledge- cathedra teaching. He wants to present immediately the desired results formulated the students, or direct the students on fixed paths through specific teacher questions there, but give them room for their own thoughts. The teacher gives by his questions merely food for thought.

Finland, South Korea, Japan

In the PISA study methods ( teaching quality ), by which progress can be achieved, are rarely mentioned. It is striking that in the leading Pisa countries Finland, South Korea and Japan, the class teaching the teacher is dominant despite occasional problems in the classroom, the need to edit the children alone.

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