¶ … teaching methods have been facing increasing amounts of scrutiny. This is because there has been pressure from various stakeholders to improve accountability and quality. To determine how this can be achieved in a real world environment requires focusing on tactics that can address these challenges. The way that this will take place is through: providing a description of how new opportunities are promoted, the way a Thinking Map is utilized and identifying interactive tools that are effective. Together, these different elements will offer specific insights as to how these techniques can improve the total amounts of learning comprehension.
A description of a past lesson in which you see opportunities to promote flexible thinking and encourage students to pursue additional learning
In the past, gifted students have been difficult to motivate. This is from the material and work not being challenging enough to inspire them. To address these issues, a new technique was utilized...
This is when there is a focus on using a variety of formats to reach out to the individual (based on their unique learning style). During this process, the educator will use flexibility in making adjustments to the material they are learning about. The results are that these students found the content more interesting and they understood how they could apply these concepts in the real world. Once this happened, is the point that their underlying amounts of motivation increased exponentially. (Holzman, 2005)
As a result, these ideas are showing how flexibility in teaching methods can encourage students to pursue additional learning. This is because the format is introducing new ideas to them in way that is most interesting to them. When this takes place, the individual is motivated to learn more about these ideas and other related concepts. (Holzman, 2005)
A description of how you would use a Thinking Map in the lesson to encourage flexibility in…
