Effective Teaching Strategies
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Effective teaching strategies involve 6 keys: 1) arousing student interest and making connections between old and new concepts, 2) showing concern and respect for students to help them feel they can master subjects, 3) using various assessment methods and feedback to motivate learning rather than just memorization, 4) setting clear and high goals and intellectual challenges for students, 5) promoting student independence, control, and active engagement through appropriate tasks, and 6) learning from students by collecting evidence of teaching effectiveness and modifying instruction accordingly.
Effective Teaching Strategies
- 1. Effective Teaching Strategies: 6 Keys to Classroom Excellence
- 2. 1: Interest and explanation When our interest is aroused in something, whether it is an academic subject or a hobby, we enjoy working hard at it. We come to feel that we can in some way own it and use it to make sense of the world around us. This involves knowing what students understand and then forging connections between what is known and what is new.
- 4. 2: Concern and respect for students and student learning Truly awful teaching in higher education is most often revealed by a sheer lack of interest in and compassion for students and student learning. Some people may get pleasure from this kind of masquerade. Good teaching is nothing to do with making things hard. It always tries to help students feel that a subject can be mastered, it encourages them to try things out for themselves and succeed at something quickly.
- 6. 3: Appropriate assessment and feedback This principle involves using a variety of assessment techniques and allowing students to demonstrate their mastery of the material in different ways. It avoids those assessment methods that encourage students to memorize and regurgitate. It recognizes the power of feedback to motivate more effort to learn.
- 8. 4: Clear goals and intellectual challenge Effective teachers set high standards for students. They also articulate clear goals. Students should know up front what they will learn and what they will be expected to do with what they know.
- 10. 5: Independence, control and active engagement Good teachers create learning tasks appropriate to the student’s level of understanding. They also recognize the uniqueness of individual learners and avoid the temptation to impose “mass production” standards. It is worth stressing that we know that students who experience teaching of the kind that permits control by the learner not only learn better, but also they enjoy learning more.
- 12. 6: Learning from students Effective teaching refuses to take its effect on students for granted. It sees the relation between teaching and learning as problematic, uncertain and relative. Good teaching is open to change: it involves constantly trying to find out what the effects of instruction are on learning, and modifying the instruction in the light of the evidence collected.