Classroom Teaching

Visual Learners - remember images, shapes and colours

Auditory Learners - remember voices, sounds and music

Kinesthetic - remember by doing, moving and touching

Learning StylesLearning Styles

Learning pyramidLearning pyramid

Involves facilitator and learners

Encourage and expect learners to participate

Use questions to stimulate discussion, emphasizing the value of answers

Give participants hands-on experience

Use teaching aids to gain and retain attention

Interactive TeachingInteractive Teaching

Lecturing…..Lecturing…..

Lecture is the duct-tape of the teaching world

Lecturing delivers “concepts”

It delivers a lot of information in a short amount of time

Conveys information that is difficult to present in another way

Point to keep in mind….Point to keep in mind….

 Lowest retention value of all teaching techniques

Make more interactive by involving the group by frequently stopping and asking questions

Strive for a “30% / 70% split – 30% lecture/ 70% active discussion.

Assistive Technology for Assistive Technology for classroom teachingclassroom teaching

The computer is connected to the projector and the projector is connected to the computer with barrier free environment.

The interactive The interactive classrooms provides..classrooms provides..

Saving lessons

Giving demonstrations

Using maps to teach geography

Presentations

Storytelling

Teaching students how to navigate the internet

Students with special needs Students with special needs may have problems withmay have problems with

Developing listening and Developing listening and audiotory skill in classroomaudiotory skill in classroomAuditory awareness and perception Auditory attention and hang-up Distance hearing Localization Discrimination Auditory feedback and monitoring Auditory memory store Auditory memory span and sequencing Auditory processing Auditory understanding

Language development in classroomLanguage development in classroom

speech therapy in classroomspeech therapy in classroom