Can you name some teaching styles that teachers use in imparting knowledge...? Please provide sources, if any.
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There are several different learning styles and the teacher has to learn how to teach to what works best for her students.  Not everyone can learn just by reading a book. (visual)\n\nOther styles are auidtory - learning by hearing.\nTacticle  learning thru touch,hands on\nKinesthetic - learning thru movement\n\n\nHere's a great article about these different styles that you might find helpful.\nhttp://homeworktips.about.com/od/homeworkhelp/a/learningstyle.htm
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This is a really great site that I use.\n\nhttp://www.teachersfirst.com/100books.htm
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Well, there were several learning styles that I experienced in highschool, but my main learning style is visual-spatial.  \n\nHere are the main learning styles:\n\nactive/reflective  \nsensing/intuitive  \nvisual/verbal  \nsequential/global
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I love teaching smart students and wish I had more of them.  Teaching those types of students is more of a discovery session than a typical lecture/response type of situation.\n\nI tell my students early on in each semester that no one person is smarter than anyone else... it's just that some people are smarter in other areas than others.  I use as an example that I know more about mathematics than any of them (they're all high school kids), but that each of them are better than me at something else.  It makes for a lighter, more friendly teaching atmosphere, without all the intimidation of dealing with a so-called know-it-all.
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As you can see from previous answers, there are a number of terms that describe this type of teaching.  One of the earliest terms was "team teaching".
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What is important for the students to learn and why.\n\nMost schools (districts, etc.) have a published philosophy that teachers are expected to abide by. Your philosophy may not be exactly the same, but if it's too divergent, it may be hard to work there. The more you agree with the school's philosophy, the easier it will be to do things their way.
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Being a teacher myself....I would want to see why it is important, who should do it, who should you respect, how you show respect, and how if you show me respect, I'll show you respect!!  Hope this helps.
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Title Talk: Prereading that focuses on the title of a literary text gets students thinking about the text to come. Such thinking teaches them how to generate ideas, make connections and predictions. Here is a recent example form an initial discussion of Lord of the Flies. \n\nUse Visual Aids to Improve Instruction: I copy most of the different Tools for Thought onto transparencies. Depending on the activity, I project the organizer onto the whiteboard or the overhead screen. Here you see it projected onto the whiteboard so I can model for them how to fill in the outline. I used the graphic organizer to take notes for what we were doing that day; then had my Reading Workshop students do the same so they could improve their notetaking skills. \n\nInvolve the Students in the Assessment Process: My students and I created this rubric through collaboration. They came in with their papers (Weekly Paper assignment) then got into groups. They were supposed to read through and identify the important areas of a good paper and the criteria for each category. I used the board to take notes on what they said and provide structure to the discussion. I then used these notes to create the rubric we used for the Weekly Paper. \nClassroom Connection: I am often asked what my classroom computer set up is. This is what it looks like. It is an iMac DVD edition with a T-1 Internet line and supporting connection to the overhead monitor. This meets most of our needs. Students can, for example, do work elsewhere and send it to the class computer (room82@englishcompanion.com) to print or present.\nUse the Board: Though it will not make much sense here, I wanted to include this example of my use of the board. We were discussing how one chapter in a book can build on or be related to the previous one and/or those which came before it. The image here is one I draw as I talked; thus I used the board to support/narrate what I was saying. The arrows are meant to show how themes (e.g., change) run throughout the stories we were reading. "Kim," "Ana," and "Wendell" refer to (and the boxes represent) different stories/chapters in the book Seedfolks. When the next class comes in, I erase this and start over. I find it does not work to refer to it as a static drawing/diagram in subsequent periods. Also, the act of drawing it makes the teaching more active and makes my thinking more visible. \n\nUse Multiple Means to Deliver Instruction: In the picture below I am using the overhead to model how to do an assignment in my reading workshop. I photocopied the assignment to a transparency and modeled how to do the assignment. Then I had them try one. We discussed what they came up with, critiqued their responses, then continued for independent practice while I moved around to support them. So students have information to help them on this assignment on the whiteboard, on the overhead, on their handouts, and through my voice. This is not what we do every day. I only use so many modalities when teaching something specific which they need to process by multiple means if they are to learn it. \n\nUse Reciprocal Teaching: These students in my freshman honors English class work together (as everyone else in class is doing) to read, discuss, and make notes using a graphic organizer designed to help them learn who all the characters are. The novel Jasmine, which we read as part of their integrated world cultures course (taught by the Social Studies teacher), has many characters, jumps in time, and shifts in location. I used reciprocal teaching here to allow students to get a solid understanding who is who and how the text works before moving ahead in the text. Setting up a good foundation early on prevents confusion and problems later.\n\nUse Student Exemplars; In my freshman honors English class we have worked hard to learn how to read more closely. Each Friday I give them a poem (click here to see an example of one of the weekly poem assignments,
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I use novels and films quite often in my courses (in comparative religion).  Many of my colleagues in other departments do so as well.  \n\nHowever, the statement that "people learn best from narrative" is not always true.  People have many different learning styles.  Some are tactile learners, for instance.  \n\nI have learned that the most effective professors will incorporate many different types of materials into their syllabi so that they are able to accommodate a broad range of learning styles.
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www.edhelper.com my teachers use this web site all the time and it is really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ask a thoughtful question about what he/she is trying to teach.  It will make his/her day!
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I'm not sure, but why don't you include a quote from the teacher or the book using these terms?  I'm sure putting them in context would help with identifying them.
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Children learn in spite of their teachers....The first thing I was taught at teacher training. \n\ndrilling is fine provided you understand what you are learning. The multiplication tables are a good example of this. We used to memorise those tables like a poem. Did it help? Yes becasue they provided us with quick answers when dealing with more complex issues. \n\nThe fact is that there are some things you just need to know. You can either make the effort to remember it (and there are lots of techniques for that) or you can look it up in a book every time you need to know.
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Do demonstrations! For volume, for example, you can show a cone has a third the volume of a cylinder with the same radius by pouring water from a cone to the cylinder. Most students guess that the volumes are about the same and it's a demonstration that sticks in their minds. \n\nAnything outside of the classroom is great (if you can do that). Interactive stuff is always good. Get them to estimate the area of the basketball court or other playing surface. Or figure out how many people you could fill your classroom with if they were all lined up lying down.
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I think it's fine for teachers to come here and ask for advice/suggestions to use as effective teaching tools/techniques. \n\n But when teachers-or any other professional for that matter- come here and ask the general public to provide them w/information that they need and is the basis needed to perform their job...in a teacher's case---curriculum, then maybe it does come across as being "lazy".\nBased on the past questions you've asked, there's not really anything there save but 1 or 2, that you couldn't have typed in your own search for....probably within the same amount of time it took for you to log in and post your question here....and the info found could've been printed out in the same or less time then it takes for you to keep checking for posted answers.\n\nTurn the table here...how do you feel when you see students on here asking us to provide them with the FLAT OUT answer to their homework questions--with NO explanations.  They don't want to know nor do they care HOW it's done, they just want to GET it done.   Perhaps that's the light some see your questions in?
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I'm not a teacher, but I went to our school district's web site and found this information for our local schools as well as learning tools, e-learning, policies, procedures & bylaws, info about each of the schools and their programs, and some cool links for school-age children\n\nYou might also try contacting your local board of ed. or attending PTA meetings
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I taught in a public school for three years.  The "powers that be" actually told me to stop grading for grammatical and spelling errors, saying all of my students would fail.  That is a travesty.  From my perspective as a teacher, ignorance (which is what I believe you are really asking) is on the rise.  Despite compulsory education, it almost appears to me that we are reverting to a 19th century-like model with an educated few and masses of ignorance.