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50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
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50 Teaching and Learning Approaches
Simple, easy and effective ways to engage learners and measure their progress



September 2019 | 160 pages | Learning Matters
This reader-friendly and accessible text introduces 50 teaching and learning approaches and explores how they work in practice by taking an honest look at the advantages and disadvantages of each one. For each approach, the authors include in-practice examples taken from a range of teaching contexts. The text also offers clear support for teachers on how they can assess learners' progress when using each approach. This focus on the need to see and measure the learning that is taking place supports the reader to concentrate on the learning and not be distracted with the newness of different approaches.
 
Introduction
 
1. Analogue versus digital
 
2. Bingo
 
3. Board rotation
 
4. Brainstorming
 
5. Break it up
 
6. Buzz groups
 
7. Card activities
 
8. Case study
 
9. Catchphrase
 
10. Charades
 
11. Concept mapping
 
12. Debates
 
13. Demonstration
 
14. Discovery
 
15. Field trip
 
16. Find your match
 
17. Flipped classroom
 
18. Guess who or what
 
19. Guest speakers
 
20. Half and half
 
21. Hot potato
 
22. Inner and outer circles
 
23. Interleaving
 
24. Jigsaw puzzle
 
25. Labelling
 
26. Learner presentation
 
27. Live lecture
 
28. Mind mapping
 
29. Newspaper article or blog
 
30. Online quizzes, discussions and surveys
 
31. Optimists and pessimists
 
32. Peer review
 
33. Picture prompt
 
34. Quescussion
 
35. Question bowl
 
36. Rhyme and rap
 
37. Role play
 
38. Simulation
 
39. Snowballing
 
40. Textbook challenge
 
41. Think, pair and share
 
42. Three minute paper
 
43. Three two one
 
44. True or False
 
45. TV commercial
 
46. Walking in your shoes
 
47. Watch, summarise and question
 
48. Whip round
 
49. Who wants to be a millionaire?
 
50. Worksheet
 
Appendix