Strategies

Teaching Strategies With a focus on higher order thinkings skills it’s now necessary to make choices about what you will have students **do** in order to **learn** the course content and  **practice** the goals .......... [|bloom_revised.png]  Student Learning See [|How People Learn], National Research Council's 1999 Learning Styles How does this influence teaching? Your learning styles may be quite different even from a majority of your students. Because each of us knows what works for us, we're prone to selecting teaching strategies that favour our own learning styles.
 * Knowing something about learning styles in general and your own learning styles in particular can help you to plan assignments and activities. **

 Learning styles inventory Go to [|the learning styles inventory], and take the short survey. Compare your results with others. There is [|interpretive text] and [|additional information]. Try some others and see if they come out the same. [|The two-minute test] [|Learning Styles Online]

Teaching Strategies for Actively Engaging Students in the Classroom There are many digital tools available these days to add in to your strategies e.g. [|Digital_Blooms.JPG] and [|bloom_digital.png]  Exploring teaching strategies: [|The jigsaw technique*] <span style="font-size: 13pt; color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">** The gallery walk ** [|example*] [|Effective discussion*] <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Concept Mapping*]<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';"> [|Using case studies*] <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #666666; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">
 * Discuss strategies that you have used successfully and review these** **free tools and ideas**

For each strategy you choose, identify the opportunities for using various technology tools. You may like to search this site http://isq4.wikispaces.com/Digital+Learning+Object+Libraries for assistance.

**Group 1****......II** **Group 2** **.......II** **Group 3** **....... II** **Group 4** **........ II** **Group 5**