Key Differences In the Three Lessons

The key differences between the three types of lessons; direct, indirect, and cooperative, is the way they are taught.  Another key difference, is how much the teacher allows the students to explore learning on their own.  With a direct lesson, the teacher is distributing information tot he students, constantly checking for understanding, correcting as needed, and introducing concrete concepts for students to learn.

With indirect instruction, you are beginning to allow students to explore a concept more in depth on their own.  The concepts are there for the students, and test it using the concepts they they have learned or mastered.  Cooperative learning allows students to be creative.  Using concepts already learned, students create projects, posters, or papers that use an original idea either created by the students or the teacher to further enhance and anchor the original concept explained in the direct lesson.

The cooperative lesson was and is my favorite type of lesson, as it lets students bring their creativity into the classroom to further enhance their learning.  Although your giving students the idea of, say, creating a poster, you will still get different results from each student.

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