Examples of teaching strategies and their description.

1. Teaching Strategies

2. Synetics
• A problem-solving technique which seeks
to promote creative thinking.
• The important element is the use of
analogies. It is arrived through
metaphors.

3. 3 Types of Analogies:
1. Personal Analogy – a kind of comparison that shows how
the student emphatize with the ideas or objects.
Ex. My life is like a book. I am a rose.
2. Direct Analogy – a kind of comparison made between 2
concepts or objects.
Ex. The house is like a carnival.
3. Symbolic Analogy / Compressed Conflict- a comparison
consist of a 2-word description, object, or feeling which
appear to be opposites.
Ex. Smile and frown, love and hatred, war and peace

4. Simulations
• Mimicking an actual real life condition,
event or situations.
• It involves the application of cybernetic
principles.
• Students learn from simulations first then
the result of activities or discussion that
follows.

5. Role Playing
• It consists of an enactment by the
students of a learning situation through
which they depict real life responses and
behavior.
• It helps in seeking personal meaning out
of events occuring everyday and the
consequences of their responses.

6. Journal Writing
• Journal – a record, chronology or register
of events, memories and daily
happenings.
• It consist of a day-to-day record of
learning activities: students can determine
their own progress.

7. Narratives
• A spoken or written account of connected
events or strory
• It is anchored on 2 popular arguments :
1. it facilitates easy consolidation of information
needed to understand a concept, story or literary
piece.
2. it is a powerful tool for instant recall

8. Community Resources
• It involves familiarization and close link
with all educational aspects – the people
and their expertise, the places with rich
instructional materials and the natural
landscape.
• Learning is facilitated through actual
contact with human and material
resources.

9. Problem Solving
• It employs the scientific method in
searching for information.
• It is used generously in science and
mathematical classes.

10. Peer Tutoring
• It is commonly employed when the
teacher requests the older, brighter and
more cooperative member pf the class to
tutor other classmates.
• It is due to their closeness in age, skills,
study habits and even learning styles.

11. Peer Tutoring Arrangement
a) Instructional peer tutoring – older students
help younger ones on a one-to-one or one-to-a
group basis.
b) Same age peer tutoring – more able ones to
assists the less able.
c) Monitorial tutoring- the class may be divided
into groups and monitors are assigned to lead
each group.

12. Peer Tutoring Arrangement
d) Structural peer tutoring – a definite
procedure id followed. It is administered by
trained tutors.
e) Semi-structured peer tutoring- the tutor
guide them through a carefully-planned
learning guide but are free to modify it
according to their own interest and skills.

13. Microteaching
• It consists of teaching a brief lesson to a
small group of students in an actual
classroom.
• Beginning teachers undertake this activity
by teaching their peers.
• Its ultimate aim is to obtain feedback from
students or peers in a form of critique and
followed by a reflection.

14. Field Studies
• Is an out-of-the-classroom activity
intended to present concepts in the most
realistic manner.
• Sometimes referred as educational
excursion, field trip, study tour, nature trek
or exploratory travel.