Different Methods of Teaching

1. Direct and Indirect Method

The direct method - is teacher-dominated. You lecture immediately on what you want the
students to learn without necessarily involving them in the process. In the indirect method, you
synthesize what have been shared to connect loose ends and give a whole picture of the past
class proceedings and ideas shared before you lead them to the drawing of generalizations or
conclusions.

2. Deductive and inductive methods

In the deductive method, you begin your lesson with a generalization, a rule, a definition and
end with examples and illustrations or with what is concrete.
Deductive and Direct Instruction:

Begins with the abstract, rule, definition, generalization, unknown and ends with
experience, examples, details, known

Inductive and Indirect Instruction:

Begins with the concrete, experience, examples, details, known and ends with rule,
definition, generalization or conclusion

There is no such thing as the best method.

The best method is the method that works, is effective and will enable you to realize your
intended outcome.

“There is NO better or best method.”

The inductive-indirect method is superior in terms of learners’ engagement. However, in cases
when learners are not yet capable of drawing abstractions or generalizations, the deductive-
direct method is a better choice

This chapter comprises the principles and methods used for instruction to be implemented by
teachers to achieve the desired learning by students.
These strategies are determined partly on subject matter to be taught and partly by the nature
of the learner.
For a particular teaching method to be appropriate and efficient it has to be in relation with the
characteristic of the learner and the type of learning it is supposed to bring about
It is the primary role of teachers to pass knowledge and information onto their students
In this model, teaching and assessment are viewed as two separate entities.
Student learning is measured through objectively scored tests and assessments. An approach
gives rise to methods, the way of teaching something, which use classroom activities or
techniques to help learners learn.
Deductive and direct method works from the more general to the more specific.
It might begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest.
Then narrow that down into more specific that we can test.
Inductive and indirect method works the other way, moving from specific observations to
broader generalizations and theories.
Begin with specific observations and measures, begin to detect patterns and regularities,
formulate some tentative hypotheses that we can explore, and finally end up developing some
general conclusions or theories.
These learnings can be applied by utilizing those and found the best approach and method that
can be applied in a classroom which is the effective to the students that will help them to boost
their capability.