Teaching and Learning Strategies

This text is a useful resource for teachers during the practicum component of their course and throughout their teaching career.

Diana Whitton (Author)

9781107441187, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 June 2015

216 pages
24.7 x 17.6 x 1.1 cm, 0.41 kg

Teaching and Learning Strategies is a practical guide for pre-service teachers who know and understand the content of the curriculum and are looking for additional tools to teach it effectively. This book will help students to develop a comprehensive knowledge of teaching and learning strategies, which is essential in ensuring lessons are effective and lead to successful outcomes. The text outlines a variety of teaching strategies that can be used to facilitate classroom learning and engagement. Strategies and methods covered include discovery learning, experiments, demonstrations, the use of questioning, the facilitation of discussion and the effective provision of feedback. Teachers will be able to integrate the strategies in this book with any content area and any age group or activity level. Teaching and Learning Strategies is a useful resource for teachers during the practicum component of their course and throughout their teaching career.

Introduction
1. Observation
2. Narration
3. Discussion
4. Explanation
5. Questioning
6. Demonstration
7. Application
8. Experiments
9. Discovery learning
10. Gaining feedback
11. Graphic organisers and visualisations
12. Grouping
13. Checklists
14. Product descriptors and rubrics.

Subject Areas: Teaching skills & techniques [JNT], Education: care & counselling of students [JNH], Inclusive education / mainstreaming [JNFN]