Strategies for Teaching Differently

This practical step-by-step teaching approach is based on the latest research on learning and multiple intelligences. Ensure that what you teach isn’t going in one ear and out the other but is committed to students’ long-term memory. Change to interactive thinking activities — and increase your students’ success. Here are the keys to transforming your classroom from teacher focused to student focused. Change your mission from students getting the lesson to students learning how to learn. Move your emphasis from filling the time to showing students how to construct knowledge. Find out how toUse students’ multiple intelligences to help them learnCreate a suitable climate for learningLeave lecturing behind — and raise comprehensionTeach students how to organize and process informationLower your school’s drop-out rate and increase attendanceHelp students master difficult concepts using visual representatives