Teaching+Strategies

Teaching Strategies  It’s now necessary to make choices about what you will have students **do** in order to **learn** the course content and  **practice** the goals.  Student Learning See [|How People Learn], National Research Council's 1999  Learning Styles How does this influence teaching? Your learning styles may be quite different even from a majority of your students. Because each of us knows what works for us, we're prone to selecting teaching strategies that favour our own learning styles.
 * Knowing something about learning styles in general and your own learning styles in particular can help you to plan assignments and activities. **

 Learning styles inventory Go to [|the learning styles inventory], and take the short survey. Compare your results with others. There is [|interpretive text] and [|additional information]. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Try some others and see if they come out the same. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">[|The two-minute test] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">[|Learning Styles Online] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; COLOR: #2e5a36; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Teaching Strategies for Actively Engaging Students in the Classroom <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 15pt; COLOR: #2e5a36; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Exploring teaching strategies

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">The jigsaw technique <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">The gallery walk <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Effective discussion <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Concept Mapping <span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt; COLOR: #666666; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Using case studies


 * Discuss strategies that you have used successfully**