can you give some specific examples of teaching methods?

Answer 1

Direct instruction
Lecture
cooperative groups
Inquiry based learning

These are a few. Any good teacher varies instruction frequently to meet the needs of different learning styles.

Answer 2

Actually, your question of asking for examples is a teaching method. Informing your students of examples for a particular idea also fits. The most common teaching method seems to be lecturing. The discovery method is used... especially in science... for example, what happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar. Illustration is another example... drawing a picture or graph to help convey the idea.... a line graph showing a trend or a photo of a cell with parts labeled. The concrete teaching method... that is, using tangible objects to teach concepts... like four real apples combined with two real apples makes a total of six apples.

Answer 3

You yourself should have offered more specifics, e.g. what subject? Age level?

Try "chunking." Divide your class period into several smaller chunks. Kids have short attention spans and learn better in short sessions. Here's one pattern: 10 minutes reviewing yesterday's lesson or old material; 20 minutes teaching new material; 10 minutes to begin homework while you walk the room, making sure everyone understands what they are doing.

Have a predictable structure for each class every day. Many kids like knowing what to expect and are uncomfortable or anxious with the unexpected.

Give frequent rewards for participation. Praise often!

Here's an example of how you can combine the last three:
1. Assign new vocabulary words every Monday. Provide the definitions and a sample sentence. Explain/clarify where necessary.
2. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: spend a few minutes asking class to use each word in a new sentence. Toss a cough drop or hard candy to every kid who participates.
3. Give the quiz on Friday. Depending on the level, you might ask for definition or merely the use of the word in a sentence. Offer a challenge: extra points to anyone who can use all the words in one sentence. Return papers promptly!

Final caution: kids hate to be lectured to. Don't spray them with data which they must later regurgitate. Involve them in the process. For instance, instead of telling them that WW2 started in 1945, ask them who can tell you when the Second World War started? And when it ended?

Final piece of advice: know your students. When you know their interests, their home life, their strengths and fears, you can motivate the unmotivated. And NEVER humiliate anyone! Praise, encourage, respect!

Answer 4

I have a great teacher who really inspired us kids.

When reading from a book or such, she would stop part of the way through to ask us what we thought on what just happend, and what that might make for the future. It really got us into the books and history lessons and such.

When a student is being loud put them at a table in the front of the room as far away from there friends as possible.. and if they talk more then 2 times they get a detention.. then they will repect the teacher more.

try and grade papers at a quick pace. the students will get angery and anxious otherwise..

good luck =D

Answer 5

What subject? What age? Individually or in a class setting? Ask a more specific question to get a better specific answer.