Teaching Techniques

There are no good or bad, useful or useless teaching techniques to teach. When you study and analyze all the teaching approaches and techniques you can conclude that the best technique is the one that gives you the results you aimed.

Of all the techniques presented I would select the share and process information technique. I prefer these techniques because they allow for a meaningful communicative interaction. The students can actively participate by providing, orally, the information required to complete the tasks. As an example, to reconstruct the story sequence you can use various exercises ( story map, plot diagram, bottom-up strategy, etc.) that will allow for oral and written communication. I have used the above techniques, and to my surprise, they activate the student's participation.

Another technique I like to use is the sentence strips. This is an excellent way to help students improve their writing and oral skills by using color coded strips to organize sentences. Once they complete the sentence, then they read it aloud.

Each of the techniques, methods and approaches have advantages and disadvantages, but one can adopt and adapt their best features and create our own "tailor made" teaching technique.