Good and Bad Teaching Methods:
Good:
*Make students
feel good about themselves (confident)
*Interactive
class activities which involve ALL students ALL the time
*Students are
out of their seats for many parts of class
*Games,
projects, group work, etc., which encourage students to think and work
together
*Encouraging ALL
students to participate by calling on many different students every class
*Create
comfortable and SAFE classroom environment
Bad:
*Embarrass/humiliate
students
*Lecture only or
teaching using only one teaching method
*Rote
memorization - students memorize but do not understand or know how to use
information
*Punishing
students for not understanding
*All class,
students sit in their desks and listen and write
*Choosing the
same students to help or answer questions because they know the answers
How students learn
Kinesthetic learning:
*Hands-on
activities
-building
projects
-manipulatives
(like shapes - balls, triangles, squares)
-clay
-coloring
-puzzles
Visual learning:
*Anything
students can see
-videos
-pictures
-technology
-instructions
written on the board
-theatrical
performances
-dance
or sports watching
Audial learning:
*Anything
students can listen to
-recordings
of what they are reading
-explanations
given many times, different ways vocally
-step-by-step
instructions
-music
-poetry
read aloud
Verbal Learning:
*Students
must SPEAK what they learn
-Presentations
-Speeches
-Small
group conversations
-Think-Pair-Share
activities
How the brain works
*a teenager must
see, hear, speak, and write new information 40-60 times before they
UNDERSTAND
it
*a child 8-12
years must see, hear, speak, and write new information 30-50 times
*an adult must
see, hear, speak, and write new information 50-70 times
*a human can
only learn 7 new pieces of information in a 24 hour time period
*the brain can
memorize information, but it cannot retain (keep) the information unless it
understands
the purpose of the knowledge or how to use the knowledge
*the brain can
retain memorized information for up to 2 weeks
*the brain can
retain LEARNED information for up to 20 years without using it
Student Centered -or-
Teacher-Centered
Student-Centered:
*Students
must sometimes FIND the information themselves
*Students
use critical thinking skills to find answers to problems
*Students
are allowed to be creative to show their understanding in different ways
*Students
process and practice what they are learning, and remember it better
*Most of
class is students talking, sharing, working - the teacher is a guide, the
students FIND the
knowledge
Teacher-Centered:
*Teacher
TELLS students all information, students write & memorize
*Students
do not think critically, they only know what they are told
*Students
are unable to make decisions about the information they learn
*Students
memorize information, but are unable to look at it from different perspectives
*Most of
class studnets are in their seats writing/listening - the teacher has ALL of
the knowledge
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