100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 10 – 20 min
Why? Drawing is a method nearly every child love to do that and to express their view at this world with this method. This method is forcing and support phantasy development and cross line connections and expression of absorbed knowledge in another language.
When? Every time you think your class need a relaxing of the teaching and learning atmosphere.
How? Some times it is very refreshing for children to have open topic and to fulfill tasks which are not pressed artificial in frames. Let them just draw things which are surrounding them, and you will surprisingly find out, that even a painting of a cup, will have very different results and if you are very careful as a teacher you can use those paintings also to learn about your children and start to understand about their different views of the world.
Any risks? Every child has different speeds to fulfill such a task, prepare for early finishers extra tasks.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 10 – 15 min
Why? To learn how to record work which students did, is supporting students understanding about structuring work processes and helping them to get an overview over more complex subjects. It is also important to learn the verification of cases.
When? Any time when you think students need to learn to self-evaluate their own work.
How? Give them a complex task to follow up and involve in the task description the the clear instruction of recording the task process including procedure and result recording.
Any risks? This could be quiet time consuming, so the teacher should give a clear time frame to fulfill the task including as well for the recording.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 15 min
Why? To be outside of the classroom is always welcome for everyone. To involve outside environment in the teaching process is very life connected and effective, if you structure this method correctly.
When? Any time when you need to relax your teaching and learning atmosphere.
How? Let a group of students prepare the game and place some things connected to a topic in the garden, the second group of students need to find them, the first group can give hints. The things which will be hided has to be a connection to the topic as well the places where students hide these things has to be connected as well.
Any risks? This needs a good preparation and you need to make sure that both groups understand what is the topic about. The teacher should prepare this very carefully and complete to give both groups the right hints and guidance. Give for everyone a clear time frame, otherwise it will be endless, because its so enjoying.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 20 – 30 min
Why? This method support self-responsible learning strategies connected to students learning pathways.
When? Any time when you want to introduce a new topic or when you need additional supplementary information.
How? Give the students a bunch of questions to be answered with internet research, you can develop that as homework, or if you have a computer lab in your school, you can let them finish this quiz directly in class.
Any risks? Every student like to search in the internet, its a modern media and everyone has to learn how to use that, this quiz will develop also research and general skills in using the computer beside of the special subject knowledge.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 45 – 90 min
Why? This method is forcing independent thinking and involving absorbed knowledge.
When? Any time if you think photos can explain more than words.
How? Just give students as homework the task to make photos in their living environment about a special topic, give them also the task to think about an explanation about the connectivity between photo and topic. Let them show their work in front of class and let them explain their reasons to take this photo and let other students also give additional comments.
Any risks? No risk, students love to show their own homework and its a very phantasy-forcing and practical work, students will like to do that.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 5 – 10 min
Why? Learners reflect on their learning journey so far and list things they are now able to do that they weren’t previously able to do; this includes subtle elements such as being able to join in a group discussion which they had previously found difficult. Learners review the timescales for the remainder of their learning journey and adapt them where necessary. Learning pathway is described as the chosen route, taken by a learner through a range of (commonly) activities, which allows them to build knowledge progressively. With learning pathways, the control of choice moves away from the tutor to the learner.
When? Any time when you start with a topic as well when you on the way to review if the connection is still there between teacher and the student. Also in the end of a topic it is very helpful to look over every students learning pathway to evaluate their steps and find out missing knowledge.
How? Technically a learning path is merely a series of „learning steps“, like titles of part topics, Web addresses, a description or task text and some additional markings. In terms of substance, a learning path is the integration of individual learning tools into a whole learning process connected to one topic duration. It helps to organize learning processes, especially if they occur over longer periods of time.
Any risks? If you just install the learning path in the beginning of a topic and never look at it anymore, it is not really effective. Use such a learning path as a guidance for students for their self study progress.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 10 – 15 min
Why? To develop a graphic involves knowledge, abstraction skills, phantasy and fun. This is a good methodology to evaluate if students taught topics already absorbed and how they really developed already an understanding about taught topics. While they draw such graphics they need to involve their absorbed knowledge to express those in a different presentation format.
When? Any time when you need evaluation and a fun method to relax study atmosphere as an instrument for you to find out how students absorbed taught topics already.
How? Give them a clear taught topic and ask students to form and draw a graphic involving the knowledge they have about the topic.
Any risks? Every student is different, some are very quick to fulfill such a task, others need longer and are not that skillful in drawing graphics, give them time and prepare for early finishers special additional tasks. Based on the fact that you involve another skill, to use that as the only evaluation instrument it is not enough. It is a good way as an additional instrument in addition with other evaluation evaluational instruments.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 10 – 15 min
Why? To develop a graphic involves knowledge, abstraction skills, phantasy and fun. This is a good methodology to evaluate if students taught topics already absorbed and how they really developed already an understanding about taught topics. While they draw such graphics they need to involve their absorbed knowledge to express those in a different presentation format.
When? Any time when you need evaluation and a fun method to relax study atmosphere as an instrument for you to find out how students absorbed taught topics already.
How? Give them a clear taught topic and ask students to form and draw a graphic involving the knowledge they have about the topic.
Any risks? Every student is different, some are very quick to fulfill such a task, others need longer and are not that skillful in drawing graphics, give them time and prepare for early finishers special additional tasks. Based on the fact that you involve another skill, to use that as the only evaluation instrument it is not enough. It is a good way as an additional instrument in addition with other evaluation evaluational instruments.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 2 – 5 min
Why? To find out what students know about the new topic and to make students interested in the new topic.
When? Any time when you want to introduce a new topic. Those quizzes are enjoyable and students like to do such games and its a good possibility to evaluate their foreknowledge.
How? Just collect some questions connected to the new topic and form a quiz. Don’t forget to reward winners.
Any risks? There is no real risk, the time frame is clear based on your preparation, also you will be surprised what students know about new topics already and also not just only the same students, it the chance for everyone to show what they know already.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 2 – 5 min
Why? To structure and organize a given task, or evaluate students foreknowledge about a new topic.
When? Any time when you introduce a new topic or you give students to work at a new independent task to give them the chance to structure their work and find cross lines between different topics.
How? Its another way of brainstorming, just place the topic in the middle and let students give to you terms which they know about this topic already and place them around the main topic. A tag-cloud is just for collecting different connected terms to one topic, there is no need to place it in a certain order. In higher levels you could start to give those term order already, and develop a mind-map.
Any risks? It could be very time consuming, just give a clear time frame to finish the tag-cloud, it is a task which needs spontaneous and quick action.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 5 – 10 min
Why? Every child likes to search what happen in families, parents, grandparents past. Special stories from grandparents and their experience of life every child like to listen to again and again.
When? Any time you think life connected experiences of the past can fit in your syllabus and subject topics.
How? Give students direct the task to ask parents and grandparents about their life experiences in different topics. Grandparents like to talk about the past, when they have been children how they lived. Parents like to talk about their study time in the university and how they met. Those personal connections you can use to ask the students to find out more about several topics. After that let them talk about their research in front of class to share it with their peers, every student is proud to give those information, because everyone is proud for the life experience and background of the own family. Some times you also can invite them as specialists to speak in front of your class, this is mostly very refreshing the lesson atmosphere and the students are very interested in those life experiences and direct contact with people who went through special life experiences.
Any risks? Children in difficult family situations, without parents or with separated parents, or without grandparents it could be not nice for them and hurting them, that everyone else has stories to tell except them. Calculate this and take special care for those children and give them special offers to whom they can ask, like a closed friend, or neighbor or guardians, or also a favorite teacher they feel closed to. Just don’t let those children alone and give them special support and guidance to overcome those sad family realities. It is also thinkable that they really want to talk about their own experiences to overcome sadness, give them the chance and special place and guidance for that.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: constantly 1 – 2 min
Why? Students who have questions are interested in the subject and topic.
When? Any time.
How? If you think about the how, you maid think ‚ya questions will come all the time, students will ask by-self‘. Yes if they are interested in the topic probably, but what about the situation that students are not interested? The answer is simple: as more interesting you create your lesson, as more you can expect that students will ask questions. Never finish a topic without forcing questions. Give in the end of any lesson an interesting point for the next lesson, so that students will have the chance to search and to be able to ask questions in your next lesson, make them interested in your topic, as more as you are interested in your own topic, as more you are searching for new information, for new daily life connected facts, as more students will be able to follow your curious energy.
Any risks? As long as students ask questions, as long they are following actively your class. Questions are good features of an interesting class. In general you can measure the quality of a lesson by the amount of questions which have been asked.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 10 – 20 min
Why? To sort things, bring things in order, structure topics, built up cross connections is supporting structured learning strategies and working environment.
When? Every time students have to understand large systematic links and cross connections. This methodology can be used for all groups of students in any age level and class format, as well for nearly any subject. This methodology can be used all the time, as often as it is matches, students will learn naturally without pressure to start to think with structured systematic strategies.
How? In lower levels you can let them order things in colors, with sizes, numerous sorting, smaller and bigger, let them order pattern, weight, volume or start with senses. In higher levels you can use cross connections in nearly every topic, let them develop systematic concepts in small dimensions until big more complex systems. To use other methodologies like: let them make a video, is using the precondition of developing scenery, this is an example of sort and order items in higher more complex thinking.
Any risks? There is no risk, just only profit for students to start learning to think systematically.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: 5 – 10 min
Why? Quiz is a kind of game, and games are enjoyable and relaxing the lesson atmosphere. A quiz is always a very enjoyable possibility of controlling and check absorbed knowledge without putting students in a stressful test or examination situation.
When? Any time you need to check or evaluate absorbed knowledge in the end of one topic duration.
How? Prepare subject and content or topic connected review questions and ask students to answer it, or let students ask questions and their peers answer. You also can modify the winner criteria in different ways. The quickest answer, the most complete answer, the most brilliant idea, the most imaginatively concept……. is the winner. Never forget rewards!
Any risks? The only risk is that always the same students will answer, built up a quiz system that everyone will get the chance to answer, something like to give limited answer possibilities or a special created answer circle or code system. This also can be regulated that the winner will give the next chance to someone of his wish, those system ideas are endless. As more joy you yourself have to create a quiz full of phantasy as more students will enjoy the execution of the quiz.
100 Teaching Methods, tmo, Uncategorised |
Time needed: all morning or afternoon
Why? Void
When? Void
How? Void
Any risks? Void
