Concept Attainment Model
“We can ‘form’ concepts, as with the inductive, sciencing, and PWIM models. We can also ‘attain’ or learn the concepts developed by others, as in the concept attainment model” (Joyce, Weil, & Calhoun, 2015, p. 125). Concept attainment is a teaching and learning technique in which “students figure out the attributes of a category that is already formed in another person’s mind by comparing and contrasting examples that contain characteristics of the concept with examples that do not contain those attributes” (Joyce, Weil, & Calhoun, 2015, p. 132).
To illustrate how I will use concept attainment to teach a lesson on arithmetic properties (i.e. Commutative, Associative, Distributive), I will begin the lesson focusing …show more content…
216). The practice puts students’ questions at the center of the curriculum, and places just as much value on the element skills of research as it does on knowledge and understanding of content. To use inquiry teaching in class, I will begin by explain the procedure of inquiry, then showing a short video clip of a person stacking Styrofoam cups in a doorway (p. 219).
After the video clip is shown, I will draw four quadrants on the board and title them as follows: quadrant 1 (Yes or No questions), quadrant 2 (General Information), quadrant 3 (Relevant Information), quadrant 4 (Answer Puzzling Question). Students will now ask their questions for me to transcribe them in the first quadrant. Once they have asked enough questions, I will organize them into groups of four with the purpose of discussing and seeking information to answer the question. I will write their general information in quadrant 2. They will narrow down pertinent information to answering puzzling question in quadrant 3. At this juncture, I will provide measurements of parts of the Styrofoam cup in different
“We can ‘form’ concepts, as with the inductive, sciencing, and PWIM models. We can also ‘attain’ or learn the concepts developed by others, as in the concept attainment model” (Joyce, Weil, & Calhoun, 2015, p. 125). Concept attainment is a teaching and learning technique in which “students figure out the attributes of a category that is already formed in another person’s mind by comparing and contrasting examples that contain characteristics of the concept with examples that do not contain those attributes” (Joyce, Weil, & Calhoun, 2015, p. 132).
To illustrate how I will use concept attainment to teach a lesson on arithmetic properties (i.e. Commutative, Associative, Distributive), I will begin the lesson focusing …show more content…
216). The practice puts students’ questions at the center of the curriculum, and places just as much value on the element skills of research as it does on knowledge and understanding of content. To use inquiry teaching in class, I will begin by explain the procedure of inquiry, then showing a short video clip of a person stacking Styrofoam cups in a doorway (p. 219).
After the video clip is shown, I will draw four quadrants on the board and title them as follows: quadrant 1 (Yes or No questions), quadrant 2 (General Information), quadrant 3 (Relevant Information), quadrant 4 (Answer Puzzling Question). Students will now ask their questions for me to transcribe them in the first quadrant. Once they have asked enough questions, I will organize them into groups of four with the purpose of discussing and seeking information to answer the question. I will write their general information in quadrant 2. They will narrow down pertinent information to answering puzzling question in quadrant 3. At this juncture, I will provide measurements of parts of the Styrofoam cup in different