Teaching and Facilitating Learning Directory

Teaching and Facilitating Learning Directory

Knowing how to teach includes knowledge, skills, and dispositions of all subject areas as well as the abilities to plan.

This directory focuses specifically on strategies and ideas related to teacher actions with students to faciliate learning - asking questions, giving directions, choosing and implementing activities, deciding on how to represent information, grouping...)

Pedagogical theories to guide instructional decisions to facilitate learning.

Classroom organization and staffing chart .

Instructional Strategies - examples of instructional strategies

Suggestions for writing and giving directions .

What is hands on?

Questioning

Overview and mini lecture for Questioning ideas and strategies.

Activities to practice questioning -> Raisins Activity -> Cartesian diver

Sample questioning dialogue from Smile to Go by Jerry Spinelli

Activities

List of kinds of activities .
See planning .

Instructional Assessment

Instructional indicators for the learning cycle .
Instructional indicators Education Department 2001 .

Microteaching - -->>> directions . --->>> forms .

Teacher Reflection - Ideas for reflecting -> mathematics instruction -> science instruction --->>> literature instruction --->>> writing instruction --->>>

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