The Traditional classroom began in 1647 here in America. Most were just for boys. The schools evolved into co-ed and then finally segregation came to an end. The traditional way requires everyone to travel to a single location and class time is a fixed amount of time. As the size of classes became larger the amount of individual attention that the teachers could give students became shorter. Private interaction is often very limited in a busy classroom, unfortunately. Due to more and more diversity of cultures, and other factors, the ideal of Socratic small group interaction at a high level is usually beyond attainment in many traditional classrooms.
What is missed in the online learning environment is the emotively supportive face-to-face environment of the physical classroom. That type of environment allows for immediate feedback which is valuable. Also, it allows for an immediate social environment, which has been seen as essential to a quality education. "Facial expressions and body language are vital clues to the level of student understanding and engagement, and fundamental to recognizing those "teachable moments!"" (http://lone-eagles.com/curr2.htm).
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"Traditional teaching is the expectation that students will learn because we tell them to. If I were to create a spectrum of teaching practices from traditional to non-traditional, I think I would use the above as my criteria. Moving away from traditional educational practices has less to do with technology (1:1, iPads, etc) or technique (PBL, PrBL, Challenge based, etc) and more to do with context and motivation. Whenever I assume that the person I am working with will learn because I am telling them, the more traditional I am being" (Shrader, 2013).
"It isn't so much that "kids learn differently these days" or even that there are boundless opportunities for learning and discovery in our technology-rich world - though both are true and part of the push" (Shrader, 2013).
"We need to continue moving this direction because learning out of compliance has always yielded superficial understanding for the majority of people and limited the highest levels of achievement to those individuals who were able to find personal meaning and intrinsic motivations despite the system in which they were learning. This is why so many ideas of progressive education don't sound all that new to people who have been teaching for a long time. They aren't" (Shrader, 2013).
What is missed in the online learning environment is the emotively supportive face-to-face environment of the physical classroom. That type of environment allows for immediate feedback which is valuable. Also, it allows for an immediate social environment, which has been seen as essential to a quality education. "Facial expressions and body language are vital clues to the level of student understanding and engagement, and fundamental to recognizing those "teachable moments!"" (http://lone-eagles.com/curr2.htm).
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"Traditional teaching is the expectation that students will learn because we tell them to. If I were to create a spectrum of teaching practices from traditional to non-traditional, I think I would use the above as my criteria. Moving away from traditional educational practices has less to do with technology (1:1, iPads, etc) or technique (PBL, PrBL, Challenge based, etc) and more to do with context and motivation. Whenever I assume that the person I am working with will learn because I am telling them, the more traditional I am being" (Shrader, 2013).
"It isn't so much that "kids learn differently these days" or even that there are boundless opportunities for learning and discovery in our technology-rich world - though both are true and part of the push" (Shrader, 2013).
"We need to continue moving this direction because learning out of compliance has always yielded superficial understanding for the majority of people and limited the highest levels of achievement to those individuals who were able to find personal meaning and intrinsic motivations despite the system in which they were learning. This is why so many ideas of progressive education don't sound all that new to people who have been teaching for a long time. They aren't" (Shrader, 2013).
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http://lone-eagles.com/curr2.htm
Scrader, D., (2013) A Definition of Traditional Teaching. Retrieved from: http://www.newtechnetwork.org/blog/definition-traditional-teaching