1. Teaching Methods
TAP 1- Strand 3

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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).

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

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