What is peer teaching?

  In short, peer teaching occurs when students, by design, teach other students. But teaching what? And how? Austin Community College provided an overview of some of the existing (though decades old) research in a collection of resources for teachers in training, which provides a nice context for peer teaching. “There is a wealth of evidence that peer teaching is extremely effective for a wide range of goals, content, and students of different...

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What are main features of demonstration and discussion method?

 The main features of demonstration and discussion method are as follows: (i) The demonstration and discussion method is not a single method. It is combination of two methods, more clearly a resultant method resulting from the combination of discussion method as well as demonstration method. (ii) This method involves the active participation of teachers and students at the same time, which is unlikely in other methods. Say in lecture method,...

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What is Cooperative Learning

  Definition of Cooperative Learning........     Students’ learning goals may be structured to promote cooperative, competitive, or individualistic efforts.  In every classroom, instructional activities are aimed at accomplishing goals and are conducted under a goal structure.  A learning goal is a desired future state of demonstrating competence or mastery in the subject area being studied.  The goal structure...

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Methods and strategies to use in planning

  Methods  and strategies  to   use  in  planning  The following is a list of some of the strategies used in this course to encourage active  learning. Active  lecturing.  An active lecture is not too different from any good lecture, but it attempts to directly involve listeners. There is no one best way to give an active lecture, but it involves any of the following techniques. Give information...

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Individual Differences and Differential

 Individual Differences and Differential   A brief history and prospect Used by permission of the author. [For classroom use only] William Revelle Joshua Wilt David M.Condon Northwestern  University Differential psychology has been a central concern to philosophers and psychologists, both applied and theoretical, for the past several millennia. It remains so today. he proper study of individual differences integrates methodology,...

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