Effective Teaching Methology

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The passage discusses effective teaching strategies like differentiated instruction, technology in the classroom, and cooperative learning.

Differentiated instruction, technology in the classroom, and cooperative learning are discussed as effective teaching strategies.

Technology can be used in the classroom to make learning more fun and engaging for students. It also allows students to learn at their own pace and connects with their interests outside of school.

EFFECTIVE TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Introduction:

Teaching is one such profession where the success of the teachers largely
depends on the ability of the students. And yet, getting the students to succeed is what
the teachers have to undertake, in order to themselves success. There have been
cases where the teachers have been able to make great learners of students who have
shown no potential. This becomes possible because teachers adopt the right teaching
method to make the students understand the nuances of the subject. This works
because different methods make the material easier to comprehend and assimilate.

The classroom is a dynamic equipment bringing together students from different


backgrounds with various abilities and personalities. Being effective teacher therefore
requires the implementations of creative and innovative teaching strategies in order to
meet student’s individual needs.

Wither you’ve been teaching two months or twenty years it can difficult to know
which teaching strategies will work best with your students. As a teacher there is no one
size fits all selection; so there is a range of effective teaching strategies you can use to
inquire your classroom practice.

1. DIFFERENTIATED LEARNING INSTRUCTION

Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Wither


Teacher differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment, the use of
ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes this a successful approach to
instruction.

Teachers can differentiate atleast four classroom elements based on students


readiness, interest, or learning profile:

 Content - What the students needs to learn or how the student will get access to
the information;
 Process - Activities in which the students engages in order to make sense of or
master the content;
 Products - Culminating projects that ask the student to rehearse, apply, and
extend what he or she has learned in a unit;
 Learning Environment - the way the classroom works and feel
Steps Needed:

a) Prepare the classroom - Prepare for meeting with small groups, using
collaborative group work.
b) Asses Strengths and need - The Teacher need to determine the specific
needs of the student using variety of assessment and formal screening
and then group.
c) Adjust your lesson content based on student needs – Switch the evident
up by using computer programs , audio recording, videos, or even making
it an interactive lesson by having student act out scenes from the play.

2. TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM


As we sail through the 21st Century, Technology in Pre classroom is
becoming more and more predominant. Tablets are replacing out textbooks, and
we can research just about anything that we want to on our smartphones, Social
media has become commonplace, and the way we use technology has
completely transformed the way we live our lives.

 Technology in the classroom makes learning more fun. Students prefer


technology becomes they believe that it makes learning more interesting
and fun.
 Improved Retention Rote
Students believe that technology helps them retain information better
 Technology helps students learn at their own Pace
Today’s technology enables students to learn at their own pace.
Students can learn according to their abilities and needs.
 Technology connects with students
Technology occupies an important place within students lives. When
They are not in school just about everything that they do is connected in
some way to technology. By integrity technology into the classroom,
teachers are changing the way they used to teach and providing the
students with the tools that will take them into the 21 st century .
3. COOPERATIVE LEARNING

Cooperative learning sometimes called small – group learning, is on


instructional strategy in which small groups of students work together on a common
task.

It is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities


into academic and social learning experiences. There is much to cooperate learning
than merely arranging students into groups and it has been describe as “structuring
positive interdependence” students must work in groups to complete task collectively
toward academic goals. Everyone succeeds when the group success.

Essential elements for the successful incorporation of cooperative learning in


the classroom:

 Positive interdependence
 Individual and group accountability
 Promotive interaction (face to face)
 Teaching the students the required interpersonal and small group skills.

Benefits and applicability of cooperative learning.

 Students demonstrate academic achievement


 Cooperative learning methods are usually equally effective for all ability
levels
 Cooperative learning is effective for all ethnic groups
 Student perceptions of one another are enhanced when given the
opportunity to work with one another
 Cooperative learning increases self – esteem and self - concept
 Ethnic and physically/mentally handicapped barriers are broken down
allowing for positive interactions and friendships to occur

Cooperative learning results in

 Increased higher level reasoning


 Increased generation of new ideas and solutions
 Greater transfer of learning between situations.

Cooperative learning is significant in business


 Cooperative learning can be seen as characteristic of innovative
businesses
 The five stages division on cooperative learning creates a useful method of
analyzing learning in innovative businesses
 Innovativity connected to cooperative learning seems to make the creation
of innovations possible.

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