Teaching Strategies, Tactics, and Methods
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A Quick Activity to Assess Student Knowledge
In this approach, you will be able to visually assess the amount of knowledge the learners have about a particular topic or use it ... -
Helping Students to Reflect on What Has Been Learned
This is a fun way for learners to think about what has been done in class, free-write for 5 minutes, and then share their ... -
Using Socratic Thinking to Trigger Students’ Critical Thinking Skills
Socratic thinking is a process of disciplined questioning that triggers thinking. This approach can be implemented by challenging the learners with questions on complex ... -
Helping Adult Learners Gain Critical Thinking Skills
In this approach, you are developing critical thinking skills that are greatly missing in the academic lives of our adult learners. In this approach, ... -
Teaching Learners to Continually Ask Questions While Reading
Reading and writing are not done exclusively to themselves. Good readers continually ask questions while reading. This approach is helpful to boost reading comprehension ... -
Helping Students Learn the Difference Between Fact or Perception
Having the capacity to differentiate between facts and perceptions or truths and opinions is important for developing critical thinking. As an approach to strengthening ... -
A Great Activity for Engaging Disengaged Learners
This is one of those strategies that must be used when learners start to lose their learning momentum. It is certainly a way for ... -
An Activity to Help Learners Identify Their Academic and Non-Academic Strengths
This approach employs creativity to find out about the strengths of the learners within the class. To begin this exercise, find out if learners ... -
Watching the Movie Before Reading the Novel Makes it Easier to Read
In this approach, you would go against the tried and true teaching grain by having learners view a movie based on a book of ... -
A Cool Way to Help Learners Learn New Words
This approach is great to use, and it is in its simplest form; it is a great way to learn new material or build ...
