Closure
is the last skill in micro-teaching exercise or training. Closure is the skill
that is concerned with bringing the lesson to an end. To bring the lesson to an
end the teacher summarizes the major points of the lesson. Closure skill can
take various forms or shapes such as:
a. Closure
by questioning pupils on the major points of the lesson.
b. Closure
by giving the pupils exercises or problems on the work done for the necessary
solution.
c. Closure
by discussion of the most salient points found in he lesson or closure by
dramatization.
d. Closure
by recapitulating, revising or reviewing the lesson.
e. Closure
by giving pupils assignments.
KINDS OF CLOSURE
(a) Instructional
versus cognitive closure.
Allen
and Ryan (1964) distinguished between instructional closure and cognitive closure.
According to them, instructional closure is reached when the lesson is
completed and the teacher has shown the link between past knowledge and the new
knowledge.
On the
other hand, cognitive closure is reached when the students have reached closure
and have made the link between old and knowledge.
(b) Social Closure: Brown 1975
identified social closure to mean the act of giving pupils a feeling of
achievement after a lesson and encouraging them to continue to strive and make
improvements.
Anything
that has a beginning must have an end so with the lesson that is taught.
Closure therefore is an indispensable technique in teaching. Any lesson that is
not closed or ended remains handing and does not have its full effects on the
learners. The lesson a teacher teaches begins with set induction and should end
with closure or else the lesson cannot be said to be effectively taught.