The following is a list of teaching methods, learning activities and teaching aids. They have been suggested by teachers and trainers (from various backgrounds and disciplines) during training sessions I have conducted. They are included here with little attempt to differentiate which category a suggestion belongs to, but rather to illustrate the diversity of resource available to teachers, trainers and learners. Perusal of the list can act as a reminder of the need to inject variety into the teaching and learning environment.
Click here to see the list VAK-sorted or sorted according to which of the Multiple Intelligences it favours.
Artefacts and real items
Assignments
Audio-tapes
Audio-visual
Brainstorming
Buzz groups
Case studies
Cassettes
CCTV
CD-ROM
CDs
Charts
Competitions
Computer presentations (e.g. Powerpoint)
Computer program
Debate
Demonstration - presenting
Demonstration – watching
Diagrams - interpreting
Diagrams – making
Dictation
Discussion
Drama
Drawing and sketching
Estimating
Exhibitions
Experiments
Explanation – pupil-led
Explanation – teacher-led
Field trip
Film
Filmstrip
Games
Group exercises
Handouts
Hands on
Illustrations
Imagining
Instruction
Interactive whiteboard
Internet research
Language laboratory
Lecture
Listening
Maps - making
Maps – using and interpreting
Measuring
Mind-maps – interpreting
Mind-maps – making
Model-making
Models - observing
Music – composing and performing
Music – creating mood
Music – listening and interpreting
Note-taking
Observation
OHP
One to one
Open learning
Photographs
Physical representation
Pictures
Posters
Practical activity
Predicting
Presentation
Problem-solving
Project
Question and answer
Questionnaire
Radio – listening
Radio – programme production
Reading
Recording data
Repetition
Researching
Resource-based learning
Role-play
Rote learning
Seminars
Simulation
Slide-show
Songs and raps
Sorting and classifying
Storytelling
Talk
Tapes
Television
Trial and error
Tutorial
Video - making
Video – watching
Visit (to museum, relevant location, etc.)
Visiting speaker / expert
Visualising
Wipeboard
Workbooks
Workshops