Today i will try to list some teaching learning strategies which you can use in your classrooms. Most of these are pertaining to the constructivist approach(i am assuming here that most of the people reading this are teachers and so i will take the liberty of using jargon!:) do let me know in case any of the words here are unfamiliar to you and i will try to clarify!) So one must choose an appropriate teaching learning strategy depending upon the purpose...for example,before starting a class, if you want to see how much students recall from last class...then you can use clicker questions. These are also called multiple choice questions. And the strategy that you can use could be a think pair share:
THINK PAIR SHARE:
Description
of strategy:
Think-Pair-Share is a strategy designed to provide students with
"food for thought" on a given topics enabling them to
formulate individual ideas and share these ideas with another
student. Rather than using a basic recitation method in which a
teacher poses a question and one student offers a response,
Think-Pair-Share encourages a high degree of pupil response and can
help keep students on task.
Number
of participants:
2.
Type
of activity:
Group activity
Time
limit: Give
students at least 10 seconds of think time to THINK of their own
answer. Then, ask students to PAIR with their partner to discuss the
topic or solution. Finally, after 60 seconds, call time and ask the
others to share their ideas.
Role
of instructor:
- Assign Partners -Assign discussion partners rather than just saying "Turn to a partner and talk it over." When you don't assign partners, students frequently turn to the most popular student and leave the other people out.
- Announce a Topic-Announce a discussion topic or problem to solve.
- Give Think Time-Provide adequate "think time." The instructor could generally have students give a thumbs-up sign when they have something they are ready to share.
- Allow discussion- Ask students to PAIR with their partner to discuss the topic or solution.
- Monitor Discussions - Walk around and monitor the discussion stage. The instructor will frequently hear misunderstandings that she can address during the whole-group discussion that follows.
- Ask students to SHARE ideas: randomly call on a few students to SHARE their ideas with the class.
- Randomly Select Students -During the sharing stage at the end, call on students randomly. This can be done by calling out student names or numbers (One number for each student in the class, according to their number on your roster.)And ask that person to tell what their PARTNER said. If this strategy is constantly used, the students will learn to listen to their partner.
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