There are various teaching methods in educational spots. The best teaching method can be different depending on ‘who’ teaches what to whom under what condition. Thus, for desirable teaching activity, it's necessary to understand diverse teaching m...
There are various teaching methods in educational spots. The best teaching method can be different depending on ‘who’ teaches what to whom under what condition. Thus, for desirable teaching activity, it's necessary to understand diverse teaching methods and apply them appropriately. This study is to find the best way for maximizing the efficiency of ‘environmental education through experience’ and ,in an effort for that, to inquire advanced organizer model, basic assumption and instruction theory and to prove the efficiency of applying advanced organizer model based on ‘environmental education through experience’.
Boys and girls in fourth and sixth grade of elementary school living in Seoul city were selected as the subject of this study and ‘tracks for natural ecology’ of environmental experience school run by researchers associate located on Yeongi-gun, Chungcheongnam-Do are selected as project site. About measuring parameter, researchers did it by distinguish-
ing experimental group from control group depending on whether it applied advanced organizer model or not and based on questionnaire in explaining about the name and three characteristics(use, characteristic of its name, ecological characteristic) of 15 kinds of tree in ‘tracks for natural ecology’ as a part of explaining-woods program for elementary school students.
The result was that the group having received ‘environmental education through experience’ with advanced organizer model applied showed higher efficiency of learning and applying advanced organizer model increased the satisfaction about explaining-woods program. And applying advanced organizer model brings higher efficiency in not only practically applied contents but also in the whole program.
Therefore teaching and learning method of advanced organizer model can be applied to ‘environmental education through experience’. For higher efficiency, it's necessary to apply more various advanced organizer model and utilize it actively. If diverse teaching and learning methods are introduced in ‘environmental education through experience’ and their efficiency can be analyzed and applied, it can contribute to development of ‘environmental education through experience’ greatly.