A teaching strategy is the method you see to convey information to your students.

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may be a particular strategies that works well with your group of students one year that won’t
work with your students the next year. Or in one section with another section. That is why as a
teacher, it is important to have a lots of teaching strategies in your toolbox. Here are some of
the top ideas effective for the teachers to use.

Modelling
After telling the students what to do, it’s important to show the students what to do
and how to do it. Model how you complete an assignment, so they understand what they were
supposed to do. This will help your students who are visual learners.

Mistakes
If you’ve ever accidentally spelled out the word wrong on the board, you know that
students love to identify mistakes. When you’re watching a new skill, make an examples riddled
with mistakes. Let the students practice the skill by identifying and fixing the mistakes for you.

Feedback
Students don’t always know if they’re doing a good job without you telling them so.
Regularly provide written or verbal feedback for individual or group assignments. Also, it can be
beneficial to turn the tables sometimes. Let the students provide feedback to tell how you’re
doing, too.

Cooperative Learning
Students learn effectively when they’re working together. Plan activities that require
students to work together and learn from one another. In the process, they’ll also learn critical
learning skills, communication skills, problem solving skills, and more.

Experiential Learning
Students learn by doing, so create experiences for them to see the concepts in action.
Let them practice the concepts in a safe environment. Then, they should reflect on the
experience and discuss what they learned from it. Activities that you could do for experiential
learning include games, experiments, or simulations.
Student-Led Classroom
When students get to be the teacher for the day, they learn things that they wouldn’t
have learn otherwise. You could have team teach or works in group to teach a new topic. You’ll
find that other students will learn from their peers’ unique take on the subjects, too.

Class Discussion
Another way for students to teach each other is through class discussions. As students
take turns discussing the subject, you can assess their knowledge and discover which students
grasp the concepts and to what extent.

Inquiry- Guided Instruction

By asking question and working together to solved the problems, students get to be
involved in the learning process. The class can work together to determine the answer and
report it. As a students do the work to discover the answer on their own, they remember the
concepts better and fully.

Lesson Objective Transparency

Rather than letting your students figure out what they should learning on their own, just
tell them. Clearly state your lesson goals or objectives. You could announce it in class or write it
on the board. Just make it simple and clear for all of your students to understand. Then, they
know what they’re working towards and what they should know by the end of class.

Graphic Organizers
Graphic organizers summarize the information in a concise manner. Using a flow chart,
venn diagram, or web, students get to see the information in a new light. This helps them
organize the information in their minds, so they can better grasp the new concepts.
Institution of higher learning across the nation are responding to political, economic,
social and technological pressures to be more responsive to students’ needs and more
concerned about how well students are prepared to assume future societal roles. Faculty are
already feeling the pressure to lecture less, to make learning environments more interactive, to
integrate technologies into learning experience, and to use collaborative learning strategies
when appropriate.
Lecture
For many years, the lecture method was widely used instructional strategies in college
classrooms. Although the usefulness of other teachings strategies are being examined today,
the lecture still remains an important way to communicate information. Used in conjunction
with active learning strategies, the traditional lecture can be effective way to achieve
instructional goals. The advantages of lecture approach are that it provides a way to
communicate a large amount of information to many listeners, maximize instruction control
and is non-threatening to students. the disadvantage are that lecturing minimize feedback from
students, assumes an realistic level of students understanding and comprehension, and often
disengages students from the learning process causing the information to be quickly forgotten.

Case Method
Providing an opportunity for students to apply what they learn in the classroom to real
life experiences has proven to be an effective way to both disseminating and integrating
knowledge. The case method is an instructional strategy that engages students in active
discussion about issues and problems inherent in practical application. It can highlight
fundamental dilemmas or critical issues and provide a format for role playing ambiguous or
controversial scenarios.
Course content cases can come from a variety of sources. Many faculties have
transformed current events or problems reported through print or broadcast media into critical
learning experiences that illuminate the complexity of finding solutions to critical social
problems. The case study approach works well in cooperative learning or role playing
environments to stimulate critical thinking and awareness of multiple perspectives.

Discussion
There a variety of ways to stimulate discussion. For example, some faculty begins a
lesson with a whole group discussion to refresh student’s memories about the assigned
readings. Other teachers found it helpful to have student list critical points or emerging issues,
or generate a set of questions stemming from the assigned readings. These strategies can also
be used to helps focus a large and small group discussion.
Active Learning
Meyers and Jones (1993) define active learning as learning environments that allow
students to talk and listen, read, write, and reflect as they approach course content through
problem-solving exercises, informal small groups, simulations, case studies, role playing, and
other activities, all of which require students to apply what they are learning. Many studies
shows that learning is enhanced when students become actively involved in learning process.
Instructional strategies that engage students in the learning process that stimulate critical
thinking and a greater awareness of other perspectives. Teaching strategies should be carefully
matched to the teaching objectives of a particular lesson.

Cooperative Learning
Cooperative learning is a systematic pedagogical strategy that encourage small groups
of students to work together for the achievement of a common goal. The term ‘collaborative
learning’ is often used as a synonym for cooperative learning when, in fact, it is a separate
strategy that encompasses a broader range of group interactions such as developing learning
communities, stimulating student/faculty discussions, and encouraging electronic exchanges
(Bruffee, 1993). Both approaches stress the importance of faculty and student involvement in
the learning process.
Integrating cooperative or collaborative learning strategies into a course, careful
planning and preparation are essential. Understanding how to form groups, ensure positive
interdependence, maintain individual accountability, resolve group conflict, develop
appropriate assignments and grading criteria, and manage active learning environments are
critical to the achievement of a successful cooperative learning experience.

Integrating Technology
Integrating technology into a course curriculum when appropriate proves to be valuable
for enhancing and extending the learning experience for faculty and students. Many faculties
have found electronic mail to be useful way to promote student-student or teacher-student
communication between class meetings. Others use list servers or online notes to extend topic
discussion and explore critical issues with students and colleagues, or discipline-specific
software to increase student understanding of difficult concepts.