5 Effective Teaching Strategies

Teaching is a not a very broad term as some teachers feel. It is a very methodical and effective method. A teacher can use different teaching strategies provided her focus is on the way her children learn. Anyone who thinks from the learner’s point of view would be able to come with techniques which are very effective and bring in positive response from the students. A teacher must think about what should she do so that the students will learn?

Here are some effective methods which are time tested and have brought good results for the everyone. Try them out.

a.       Brainstorming: A teacher must put up a topic for brainstorming in the class. Let the children come up with different ideas. Offer them a platform to share their ideas. Whatever you want to teach them will ultimately be in their answers. Put those answers on the board and reinforce their own ideas to them, it will be learning for the students.

b.      The Preview Strategy: The students learn more when they are curious to learn about some topic. Arouse their curiosity by giving them just a glimpse of your lesson one or two days prior to teaching it in the class. Just like the Hollywood or Bollywood directors first release a preview of their movie, they arouse curiosity among the audience. On similar lines, a teacher can arouse curiosity.

c.       Creativity: A teacher must always be creative at all times. She must be able to generate ideas out of anything that comes to her mind. Even the most boring topic should be made interesting by putting in creativity.

d.      Humour and Wit: These are very important aspects of teaching. There must be humour and wit in the classroom generated by the teacher. It lightens the situation and the students always learn more in a happy and positive environment. The students resent studying in a jittery or sad or angry environment. Avoid it.

e.      Keep them engaged: This is a very important teaching strategy. The students should be kept engaged all the time. Once they are engaged productively by the teacher, a lot of experiential learning takes place.

Developing effective strategies is very important. It shows the productivity of the teacher and also benefits the students a lot.

Exploring Exciting Teaching: Class room Management-II

Exploring Exciting Teaching: Class room Management-II: As my earlier blog on the same topic became more popular, I thought of penning down some more ideas related to Classroom Management. The...

Class room Management-II

As my earlier blog on the same topic became more popular, I thought of penning down some more ideas related to Classroom Management. There are many tips and ideas for the given topic but still there are a few which are very close to my heart.

I feel managing a classroom is an ever evolving concept. The students change, time change and so the tricks and twists also need to change to gain optimum results. Classroom is a sanctity sanctorum for the students and the teacher. It is a place to learn, to be active, to be observant, to be enthusiastic, to be lively and to be charged.  Hence this area should be carefully managed to provide better development for the children.

Some rules for managing a class:

1.      Follow the Japanese rule of Seiri, Seiton, Sieso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke-Make a place for everything and keep everything in its place. Designate a place for everything in the classroom and then make rules where children are firmly told to keep everything in its place. This ensures clutter free classroom. It also clears confusion. Each child has a well defined space and has an idea of where other things of the classroom are.

2.      Observation: Observe each child closely and raise a question if anything is amiss. Don’t take things for granted. Ask or enquire about everything related to a child. You will be able to solve every problem as soon as it arises.

3.      Provide a solution: Remember the teacher is a solution provided for the children in the classroom. Do not ignore their problems. When they ask you something, stop your humdrum activity and answer their question. If there is a problem think and arrive at a conclusion. Mostly everything can be solved. Their problems are not a herculean task they are just small issues which get resolved at the slightest intervention by the teacher.

4.      Make rules: Make classroom rules and stick to those rules. Do not let children break the rule. This leads to chaos at times and they start taking liberty where they should not.

5.      Books: A major cause of concern develops when the books go missing. Hence devise a method where the books don’t go missing. Also warn the children of misplacing or taking someone else’s books or notebooks when they have not done the homework.

Classroom Management is very important in the life a teacher. The first step of the career starts in the classroom. Each educator has their own way. You are free to choose whatever you want but these are some time tested rules which each teacher adopts and follows to run a good classroom.

Let your class be a stimulating one.

Many first time teachers face a dilemma in choosing the best strategies for their class. Just remember anything that you do with passion will provide you the best of results. When someone tells you it can’t be done it is more a reflection of their limitations not yours.

So let nothing stop you from developing your own class.