Guided Practice
Guided Practice
Guided practice an instructional strategy is that involves teachers who are actively engaging students in learning activities while providing support and feedback. This method is a must for reinforcing, promoting understanding, and making students develop confidence in their skills through collaborative learning.
What is the purpose of guided practice in education?
Guided practice intervenes to close the gap between the learning that occurs through direct instruction and the learning that comes through independent practice. It offers chances for students to use the recently acquired knowledge or the skills that they have learned under the guidance of a teacher, thus ensuring that they will receive the immediate feedback and correction. As in the case of a math class, a teacher may go through several problems with a student before letting him/her practice similar ones independently.
How does guided practice differ from independent practice?
Guided practice primarily finds its usage when there is a teacher's involvement in the process, while independent practice includes the student's achievement of work divorced of teacher support. During guided practice, teachers stand a chance to evaluate student comprehension as well as provide individualized feedback, while independent practice is characterized mainly by its use as a skill reinforcement tool. For example, following a session of guided reading, the students are to independently finish a reading comprehension worksheet.
What are some effective strategies for implementing guided practice?
Guided practice is the implementation of scribbling during Read-Aloud, modelling of the skill, and providing think-aloud techniques only for the initial teacher support which decreases as the students get more proficient. For instance, a teacher may first show a writing strategy by doing it himself, then he will make the students write a paragraph with him, afterward he will let them write a paragraph by themselves while he observes their development.
In what ways can guided practice support diverse learners?
Flexible teaching in the classroom is beneficial for students with different learning capacities as it provides teachers the chance to adopt the instruction according to students' requirements, speed, and learning styles. This is a strategy to provide guidance to students who might be having difficulties, at the same time, advanced learners will be further boosted by facing more tasks during the guided part. The existence of such approaches demonstrates that a teacher can, for instance, group students by their performance in order to offer support during a guided math activity.