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Imaginative Ways
- Work at a level the students understand, and develop by linking steps. Scaffolding.
- Use illustrations and 3D whenever possible so the students who need to refer to practical issues to learn can have a focus.
The touch/Learn method.
- Research leads the more skilled or more motivated students into following their own leads and interests at their
own levels of understanding. Internet and Online Learning.
- Self Paced individual tasks allow the faster student to progress at their own rate.
- Link cartoons and sketches and visuals into teaching as much as possible. If you can't draw, photocopy examples. Lighten
the learning to break tension.
- Incentives and mini goals give students solid reinforcement that they are on the right track or completing tasks. Individual
or Public Charts highlight achievers in a positive way.
- Use excursions, outings, visitors, and outside contacts as much as possible to widen student horizons in multiple directions
and create a different viewpoint.
- Student centred learning with student led talks, discussions and summaries to reinforce learning outcomes and also extend
students.
- Debates and discussions with change of viewpoint to give students flexible thinking hats.
- Wear a different hat...Look at a situation from a different viewpoint. Six hats in different colors. Hats can be also
stylized to different thinkers as well as specific people and group thinking.
- Film, camera, video, chatlines, web cam...all can be used successfully by the teacher to create own TV shows, Power Point
with voice, and moving pictures.
- Study from a different viewpoint. eg. History from reading Novels, cartoons or ballads.
- Set topic and Outcome and have students work out the path to reach outcome.
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