Today I was given a task to do my reflection 1 on our previous discussion with Madam Ng. Our Assignment 1 is our " Blog". So we have to post all the activities in here. As the last discussion we were divided into 3 groups and were given different topics on school of thought. There are three main school of though which is Cognitive approach, Humanistic approach and Behavioral approach. Our group have to present about humanistic approach and my task was given by my group is to find the theory of the model in humanistic approach. Humanistic approach focused on hidden internal experience and emphasis the role of feelings into learning experience. One of the model is Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of human needs.
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| Maslow's hierarchy of human needs |
There are a lot of advantages in humanistic approach for students in school. It increase their achievement in academic and also improve their learning. After presenting on humanistic approach. Our lecture told us to identify 2 negative points of humanistic and I have to suggest how to counter the 2 negative items. Firstly the negative of humanistic approach is groups. In humanist approach, classroom puts emphasis on the individual and students spend much of the time in class working in groups. This tends to lead students to discuss matters unimportant to the topic at hand. Besides that it leads to extroverted students monopolizing the discussion and giving a large disadvantages to more introverted student. And this will discourage the students who are low achievement feel embarrassment in the group and they will tend to keep their talent and performance with them and will not voice out their opinion.
However, lack of competitiveness can be the negative point in humanistic approach. It is because humanistic approach focus on individual development, the idea on competition is dis-emphasized. The result is that students learning from humanistic approach are less competitive compared to students learning in traditional schools. And students will not lead to better performance once they graduated and enter into workplace or university.
To overcome this negative approach teachers plays a big role in guiding the students. Teachers shall see students performances and also guide the students which is low in academic performances. And she must encourage all students to take part and voice out in the group activities and not even one students left out. Besides that, Academic competition is a must for students because it can encourage students to work harder on their studies and help them get excited about academic content. They might retain more as they prepare for quiz, spelling and standardized tests. Teachers often use team-based competitions to make academic more interesting and engaging. However, even teachers can method such as rewarding in encouraging students to performance better in the task and perform more better in the next task.
Hi jasvin... do you think an individual can ask for an idea on how to solve their personal problem like financial problem or family problem? Do think a teacher can also guide them to overcome their personal problems also?
ReplyDeleteHi Nathiya !! In my opinion, I think that a teacher can overcome and guide the students if they are having problem. As a teacher he or she should be caring to all student and take some time to listen to students problem maybe the teachers can help the student. As an example, if the students is having financial problem teachers can help the students by collecting money with other teachers to help the students or asking the school to help the students. Most of the teacher are caring and they are willing to help students who is facing difficulties. So, I think that the individual shall ask ideas from teachers because they are our motivator and they tend to inspire us a lot.
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