Teaching Methodology
This is the basic techniques used to promote learning; often called instructional strategies or teaching strategies.
What is an instructional method?
This is a brief period of silence between asking a question and calling on a student; allows all students to mental process the question and formulate their replies.
What is wait time?
This is a description of a realistic, problematic situation that requires a solution.
What is a case study?
These are learner-centered simulations that involve students in acting out stories based on scripts.
What are skits?
This allows people to gather information, evaluate its quality, and use it effectively; also called higher order thinking skills.
What is critical thinking?
This is a specific type of teaching method in which the teacher acts as a facilitator, or guide, for learning, and students more actively engage in directing and achieving their own learning.
What is a learner-centered method?
This refers to the rate at which a teacher moves through the components of a lesson or the lessons throughout the day.
What is pacing?
This is when a group of people present and discuss a topic.
What is a panel discussion?
This is an activity in which students think deeply about an issue or something they have learned.
What is a reflective response?
This means to give authority to.
What is empower?
This is a teaching strategy in which the teacher's role is to present the information that students are to learn and to direct their learning process.
What is teacher-centered?
This is a way to assess each student's participation and learning.
What is individual accountability?
This is a form of small-group learning in which students work together to achieve a common goal.
What is cooperative learning?
This focuses on producing an end product.
What is a productive lab?
This is a general agreement that requires analysis and negotiation to reach a solution on which a majority agrees.
What is a consensus?
This is using different techniques of instruction to match a student's preferred mode of learning, disability, or background.
What is differentiated instructional method?
This is a process that helps students draw conclusions based on what they have learned.
What is closure?
This offers a way for students to work in groups and solve problems together.
What is collaborative learning?
This is a learner-centered simulation that involves students in acting out a role without a script.
What is role-playing?
This is a leader in a group activity.
What is a moderator?
These are the two main categories of teaching methods.
What are teacher-centered and learner-centered?
These are questions that require more than a few words as answer.
This is when a student uses a formal process to research a problem.
What is an experimental lab?
This is a way to put students in situations that feel real, even though they are not -- eliminating any harmful risks.
What is a simulation?
This is your list of skills, activities, and methods or strategies for teaching.
What is a repertoire?