Effective teaching strategies

It is essential that teachers provide a range of effective teaching strategies throughout their teaching and learning experiences in order to engage an motivate students. In order to achieve high levels of student engagement it is important that you know and understand your students paying particular attention to their social and academic needs. In order to match your teaching strategies to your students, you will need to implement effective pre-assessment strategies first (Killen, 2009). In this section you will find a range of information on how to implement cooperative group learning in an effective manner. It is also important that you teach your students the rules and responsibilities of working in small groups and providing them with scaffolding structures to learn how to work in these settings. Additionally, differentiation will provide you will the skills and strategies to match learning tasks to student needs. You will find a range of helpful resources under this topic that will help you to implement this effective teaching strategy.

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