Monday, 29 April 2013

Teaching strategies should match content and objectives of lessons


Most of the discussion focused around the delivery of the lesson. After a while we realised that the teaching strategy we wanted to implement did not really suit the topic. We originally wanted to do a “station based” practical activity as an introduction. This realisation then sparked lively debate around suggestions as to what strategy will then work. We debated a normal hook, an introductory video clip, teacher demonstration, because this suited the topic that we were focussing on.

During the Cell time, we refined the worksheet and questions as well as the time management strategies to manage the students’ focus on different tasks during the lesson.

What we have learned from this experience: The teaching strategy should match the content as well as the objective for the lesson. We are going to experiment with time management strategies during this lesson and see whether it works better for this type of lesson.

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