Correct Answer - Option 3 : study the errors and their possible causes and design her teaching strategy.
Errors:
- When a learner can’t master a topic, he/she is vulnerable to make errors. Errors are nothing but incorrectness made by a child during learning.
- It also takes place due to the mismatch in previously assimilated and newly accommodated knowledge.
Children's errors are a window into how they think:
- Learning from mistakes and errors is a crucial and important part of learning new concepts.
- Committing errors in learning to show the thinking ability and capacity of a child.
- Errors are very helpful in developing the critical and creative thinking of the students.
- It is like a window into how the learner pounder on the errors and learns from the errors.
- The teachers should not deny the learner to committing errors, if the teacher does, he/she deteriorate the thinking capacity of a child.
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Imitating others while learning will also barrier to developing critical thinking.
As a teacher, you should adopt the following strategies-
- The process of discussing in the class gives the students an opportunity to discover their sources of error and then proceed to correct misunderstandings of facts, concepts, mathematical principles as well as errors in computations, etc.
- Ask students to use an alternative method or redo it to find out errors on his/her own.
- A common practice is that students will justify the answer only when the teachers ask them to do so due to mistake or error.
- What is required is to build the process of justification as a habitual one in our students. The process of justification will help them to explain why their answer is correct and convince peers and teachers.
- always teach alternatives so that student can follow divergently thinking
Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that the teacher should study the errors and their possible causes and design her teaching strategy.