Every person who enters the teaching profession has dreams of changing the lives of the students they teach. Many teachers receive the necessary trainings and degrees, but lack the experience that will help them make a difference from the very beginning.  To achieve complete satisfaction in helping students, let us take a look at some of the following tried and trusted teaching strategies.

            Model-Teacher Demonstration—it is proven by countless child psychologists  that children learn off those who look after and nurture them. If a teacher shows that she is keen and enthusiastic about a topic, this is increasingly likely to rub off on the students she is teaching—making them motivated and focused on their learning. Teachers must  demonstrate  before having students try something.

            Understand and Respect Students— by showing that a teacher cares about success of her students and want them to achieve as highly as they can, she must give them a reason to work hard and maintain high levels of concentrations.

            Clear Goal and Target-Setting—- if a teacher wants her students to succeed, she needs to give them something to aim for. Don’t provide an unrealistic challenge; setting a student up to fail is highly to result in de-motivation and a loss of confidence for all those involved.

            Conduct Accurate Assessments—– this is the only way a teacher can quickly define the areas of a subject students are finding difficult to comprehend and the parts which they have grasped fully.

            Make Learning Fun— If students enjoy coming to school, it is only natural that they will absorb more information with less of a difficulty. Use multi-sensory techniques to captivate the imaginations of students and use diverse range of teaching strategies to make each lesson a refreshing change from the last.

            Cater to all Students–-different people learn in different ways, so the teacher must make sure to take this into consideration when planning lessons. Avoid focusing on just one-style of teaching—a teacher can not give students unfair ad vantages over their classmates.

            Combined with our own favoured techniques and personal knowledge, these teaching strategies should lead the teachers and her students on the road to success in as little time as possible. It is vital that she uses her own initiative too, in order to identify where and when each strategy can be used.

By: Hermelita C. Meregildo | Master Teacher I | Limay National High School | Limay, Bataan