aces approach

The Affective, Cognitive

Experience for Self-learning

(ACES) Approach

Gretchen C. Dawaton,MBA

At the end of the topic the students should be able to:• Differentiate approach with strategy• Define the ACES approach• Enumerate the advantages and

disadvantages of filmshowing strategy• Appreciate filmshowing as a teaching and

learning strategy

The Confluent Theory as a basis of the ACES teaching Approach

• The theory provides for the flowing together and interaction of the affective and cognitive elements in individual and group learning

“The aim of education is an education for living. It gives a

meaning and direction to all we do- including not only what, but how

and why we might learn any technical information.” Kroll (1987)

The Teacher as Facilitator of Affective and Cognitive Learning

“Values are caught, not taught”

The ACES teaching approach• puts a heavy premium on the affective

development of the students not because the affective scope precedes the other dimensions, but because the former serves as the most vital force in the integration of the students personality for a fuller and viable way of life.

This Approach therefore makes the learners become more

aware of themselves, their assets and liabilities

Learn to maintain and reinforce their strengths

Replace their liabilities with positive traits

The Teacher as Values Director

Tasks to do:Processing of LearningsDirecting the Focus of AwarenessProviding Cognitive InputsDirecting Values to be LearnedPlanning with, and Monitoring Action Learning Styles of the Students

The ACES Methodology and Phases of Value Learning

• Employs both inductive and deductive method

• Applies the Andragogy or Experiential Learning Approach

Phases of Value Learning

• Learning Trigger Phase• Values Clarification• Directive Phase or Inculcation Phase• Action Phase

Phases of Value Learning

Mooding Setting Activity

Phase ILearning Trigger Activity

Phase IIValue Clarification Analysis

Phase IIIDirective (Abstraction)

Phase IVAction Application

Evaluation

Closing Activity

Seven Elements of Andragogical Process

1. Climate SettingA climate of mutual respectA climate of collaborativenessA climate of mutual trustA climate of supportivenessA climate of openness and authenticityA climate of pleasureA climate of humanness


2.Involving learners in mutual planning3. Involving participants in diagnosing their

needs for learning4. Involving learners in formulating their

learning objectives5. Involving learners in designing learning

plans


6. Involving learners carry out their learning plans

7. Involving learners in evaluating their learning

Film Showing as a Teaching Strategy

• Formerly, films or motion pictures were thought to be meaning for recreation and amusement only. Today, they are increasingly used as a device for teaching. They are an indispensable means of education and instruction. They bring an element of realism into the classroom, which cannot be obtained by any other medium of instruction.

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Film Showing as a Teaching Strategy

• When a film show is going to be arranged, the teacher should see that it is really needed in connection with the studies which are going on. The teacher must discuss the background of the learning situations presented in the film show, previous to presentation. It should serve the purpose of recapitulation.

Advantages

• Films are a comfortable, familiar medium to contemporary students that can keep student interest in the theories and concepts under discussion.

• Students can see the theories and concepts in action.

• In more than a figurative sense, theories and concepts leap from the screen.

Disadvantages• Students can vary in their reaction to

actresses, actors, and characters in a film.• The content of scenes might distract some

students from the theories and concepts the scenes portray.

• Humor, drama, terror, and language can distract people.

• Using film scenes in class takes time away from other classroom activities

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