HASTI PUBLIC SCHOOL AND JR.COLLEGE ,DONDAICHA
The Most Effective Teaching Strategies To Use In School
Teaching strategies are methods and techniques that a teacher will use to support their pupils or students through the learning process; a teacher will chose the teaching strategy most suitable to the topic being studied, the level of expertise of the learner, and the stage in their learning journey.
In one lesson a teacher may use many different teaching strategies with different end goals. The most effective teaching strategies are those proven to work over large scale trials. There is no requirement for a teaching strategy to be innovative although of course some of them are.
List of teaching strategies for primary school
These are the 13 most important teaching strategies that the teachers of Hasti public school ,Dondaicha use. Its not that every teacher uses all of the stratagies in every lesson, but an awareness of what they are and the results you can expect is essential to move your practice on.
1. Know Your Pupils and Develop Their Respect This may sound basic, but the basis of all good teaching is an understanding of your pupils and their learning needs. Allied to this is the respect you are held in by your pupils. The relationship between teacher and student is a vital element of the learning experience.
take the time to get to know each pupil throughout the 1-to-1 lessons by asking about their hobbies and interests or the kinds of things they’ve been learning In this way, whenever possible you can personalise a lesson or a teaching technique as appropriate to the child with a real world example.
2. Appropriate use of Summative and Formative Assessments The first stage here is making sure you know the difference between formative and summative assessment.
Summative assessment refers to an assessment that takes place after a block of work has been completed, whether this is a term or a year..
Formative assessments are those that take place day-to-day and are used to gauge pupils’ understanding of a topic – they are assessments for learning.
We at our Hasti Public school use these kinds of diagnostic assessment to identifies a child’s misconceptions. Usually this is best achieved through a set of multiple choice questions.You can use diagnostic quizzes
For pupils on our one-to-one maths interventions, we use a diagnostic quiz at the start of the intervention which is responsive based on answers to an earlier question. This helps us more clearly identify not just misconceptions and weaknesses, but also where a child’s strengths lie and what therefore needs less time spent on.
3. Teach the Vocabulary With the new focus in the curriculum on knowledge organizers, there’s no excuse for children being without the relevant topic vocabulary. They need the words to be able to create the thoughts and the sentences to confidently speak about a given topic.
This is why we always talk through any specialist maths words at the start of a lesson with pupils, explaining any new terms and checking for understanding of previously covered ones.We recommended co-creating maths vocabulary lists with your pupils. This Maths Vocabulary List is a great start.
4. Explicit Instruction Also known as direct instruction, this teaching strategy is highly teacher-led, and focuses on frequent questioning and guided practice to help pupils learn a topic. The backbone of explicit instruction is the use of the worked example in an Example-Problem Pair. This involves demonstrating a worked example in its entirety in silence alongside a problem that pupils will then attempt.
Silence is important in order to ensure pupils’ attention is not split between the example and the spoken explanation, making it more likely that both will be more fully absorbed and retained.
5. Effective Questioning Techniques While we are all aware of the importance of questioning as a tool to gauge pupils’ understanding of a topic, there are definite techniques to improve the efficacy of your questioning in the classroom.
Questions such as “Are you sure?” and “How do you know?” encourage pupils to engage in some basic critical thinking to establish how confident they are in an answer and why, while others such as “Is there another way?” help to highlight where multiple methods to derive a solution may exist.
6. Deliberate Practice One of the most effective ways of introducing new concepts to a class, Deliberate Practice involves breaking learning down into a series of sub skills, each of which is deliberately practiced in turn.
The 5 steps involved in deliberate practice are:
1. Isolate the skill
2. Develop the skill
3. Assess the skill
4. Final performance
5. Retrieval practice later
9. Metacognition
Literally ‘thinking about thinking’, metacognition has been recognised as one of the most effective teaching strategies with pupil making an average of seven months’ additional progress.
Metacognition in primary schools often incorporates some of the other effective teaching strategies, such as *questioning in the classroom – “How do you know?” *not only asks pupils to justify their solutions, but has them thinking about their own thought processes for deriving that solution.
Teaching pupils how to plan, monitor and self-evaluate their learning also improves pupil motivation and encourages them to work harder in lessons, tying into another teaching strategy.
10. Personalised Learning It might sound obvious, but pupils are more likely to engage with learning when is more targeted to them and appeals to their interests! This may be difficult to achieve early on – especially with a full class of 30 pupils – but as familiarity and rapport builds throughout the year it should become easier to make activities and even questions more personalised to individual children.
11. Collaborative Learning Also referred to as ‘cooperative learning’, the idea of having pupils work in groups for certain classroom activities won’t be new to most teachers.
12. Modelling and Scaffolding You are already familiar with the “I do, We do, You do” method a sort of student seminar which is used at our Hasti school and this has yielded good desired results
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