Teaching Strategies for Effective Learning

Key Principles of Learning

• Learning is an active process that involves personal engagement and participation.
• The more senses involved in learning, the better the learning experience.
• Emotion plays a significant role in increasing retention and learning.

Effective Learning Strategies

• Connecting learning to students' everyday life makes abstract concepts more understandable.
• Good teaching goes beyond recall of information and focuses on developing higher-order thinking skills.
• An integrated teaching approach is more effective than teaching isolated bits of information.

Multiple Intelligences

• There are several types of multiple intelligences, including:
  • Verbal-Linguistic
  • Logical-Mathematical
  • Spatial
  • Bodily-Kinesthetic
  • Musical
  • Interpersonal
  • Intrapersonal
  • Naturalistic

Brain-Based Research Findings

• Information remains in working memory for only about 15-20 seconds without rehearsal or constant attention.
• Learning is a process of building neural networks through concrete experience, representational learning, and abstract learning.
• The brain has difficulty comprehending very large numbers without a relatable context.
• The eyes contain nearly 70% of the body's sensory receptors and play a crucial role in visual processing.

Strategies for Effective Learning

• Involving students in real-life or authentic problem-solving activities.
• Using projects to increase meaning and motivation.
• Simulations and role plays as meaning makers.
• Classroom strategies using visual processing, such as:
  • Songs, jingles, and raps.
  • Mnemonic strategies.
  • Writing strategies.
  • Active Review.
  • Hands-on activities.

Characteristics of an Integrated Approach

• Incorporates successful, research-based, and brain-based instructional strategies.
• Considers multiple intelligences and varied learning styles.
• Includes the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and values.
• Is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary.