Question: What are some innovative teaching methods used by award-winning teachers?
Award-winning and all other highly effective teachers that are fantastic and have not been officially recognized use similar teaching methods and have similar characteristics.
Characteristics:
Passionate about education and their subject area
Creative and willing to try new strategies
Care a lot about their students and tend to give tutorials outside of class time
Either get students out on field study trips and/or bring in guest speakers
Have a positive, productive and proactive attitude
Make learning enjoyable and relevant
Are willing and interested in collaborating with other teachers
Have effective classroom management skills
Recognize that mistakes are learning opportunities
Do not expect to be perfect
Here are some of the methods they use:
Socratic Seminars (structured-not too loose)
Debates
Small-Group Discussions
Role-plays
Direct Instruction-short, interactive, with Q & A available at the end
Relate curriculum to real-life as often as possible
Case-based instruction
Project based instruction
Develop and use games as a way to learn
Teach students how to study effectively
Use partner shares frequently
Give short quizzes often
Allow students to retake exams and use this as a learning experience (must have an alternate version of the test for that purpose)
Utilize peer-tutoring and teach their students how to be peer tutors
Final Thought: Innovative teachers are creative, positive, proactive teachers and enjoy the job.
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