There are many different types of teaching strategies that teachers can employ in their classrooms. Different strategies may prove to have better results with students of different age ranges. For example, what might work for teaching a student in High School might not be a very good strategy to use for teaching a child in Primary or Elementary School. When choosing a teaching strategy the best
. method for the selection process appears to be for the teacher to study the way that their class seems to learn with different strategies and then choose the one strategy, or multiple strategies, to stick to that has the best results.A few examples of different learning strategies include but are not limited to lecture, case method, discussion, active learning, co-operative learning, integrating technology and distance learning. These different strategies can at times be combined together in the classroom setting. For example, the lecture method is probably the most used method in classrooms today and holds the best results specifically in older students. The Lectures are often paired with discussion to increase the odds of students retaining information by engaging students in a conversation that touches on key points that were mentioned in the lecture because at times students don't seem to be able to focus on the lecture for a very long period of time.Teachers can utilize many of these strategies over the course of classes and gain good results in the students work with older and more experienced students while younger students seem to learn better when lectures come in short spurts because they don't have very long attention spans. Students at a relatively young age are proven to learn and retain information more effectively if the information being taught is enhanced using a more hands on approach with an active learning strategy. More reference links: http://station05.qc.ca/css/cybersite/reach-out/strategies/TEACHING.htm http://pedagogy.merlot.org/TeachingStrategies.html
