Teaching Methods TAP 1- Strand 3

Teaching Methods A teaching method consists of the principles and methods used by teachers to enable student learning. Teachers often use a variety of methods.

Cooperative Learning Students are divided into small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject.

Differentiated Learning The teacher anticipates and responds to a variety of students' needs in the classroom. To meet students' needs, teachers differentiate by modifying the content (what is being taught), the process (how it is taught) and the product (how students demonstrate their learning).

Flipped Classroom A type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom. It moves activities, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework, into the classroom.

Design Thinking A mindset and approach to learning, collaboration, and problem solving. In practice, the design process is a structured framework for identifying challenges, gathering information, generating potential solutions, refining ideas, and testing solutions.

Project Based Learning A student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.

Social Media Learning Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and Flickr, as well as open social practices such as blogging, are being used in learning for the purpose of convenient communication with other students and potentially with others outside the class such as students of the same topic and subject experts.

Effective Teaching Organization and Clarity explains clearly is well prepared makes difficult topics easy to understand uses examples, details, analogies, metaphors, and variety in modes of explanation to make material not only understandable but memorable makes the objectives of the course and each class clear establishes a context for material

Effective Teaching Dynamic and Enthusiastic is an energetic, dynamic person seems to enjoy teaching conveys a love of the field has an aura of self-confidence

Effective Teaching Analytic/Synthetic approach has a thorough command of the field contrasts the implications of various theories gives the student a sense of the field, its past, present, and future directions, the origins of ideas and concepts presents facts and concepts from related fields discusses viewpoints other than his/her own

Effective Teaching Instructor/group interaction can stimulate, direct, and pace interaction with the class encourages independent thought and accepts criticism uses wit and humor effectively is a good public speaker knows whether or not the class is following the material and is sensitive to students’ motivation is concerned about the quality of his/her teaching

Effective Teaching Instructor/individual interaction is perceived as fair, especially in his/her methods of evaluation is seen by students as approachable and a valuable source of advice even on matters not directly related to the course

Less Effective Teaching Methods Lack of objective Lack of accountability Lack of instructor/group interaction Lack of instructor/individual interaction Failure to show relevance